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February 4, 2015

Is it really recovery when new car sales are up but new home sales down?

Consumers saddled with mortgage sized health insurance costs, rising food costs and car payments find it hard to buy over-priced used homes, never mind even more expensive new homes. After six years of quantitative easing that “ended” in October, we have been treated to media headlines touting “Recovery, Recovery, Recovery,”…
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February 4, 2015

Agent matching service raises additional $3 million

After getting its legs with backing from investors including Google’s venture capital arm, agent matching service HomeLight has raised an additional $3 million in funding and launched a new website. The startup, which guides homebuyers and sellers to real estate agents based on their performance statistics, says it will use the…
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February 4, 2015

Sarah Martin: ‘Hiring an assistant allowed me to break the barrier; I’m two people now!’

Sarah Martin of Savvy + Co talks about how technology helps her expand her reach and what keeps her awake at night. The post Sarah Martin: ‘Hiring an assistant allowed me to break the barrier; I’m two people now!’ appeared first on WFG National Title Insurance Company.
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February 4, 2015

How I generated 100 real estate leads in 7 days for $50

One of the fun things about sales and marketing is that it’s always changing. It seems as though every few years, someone presents a seminar on the new “proven” sales technique. In fact, a simple Google search for “in-person sales styles” brings up a document that lists 18 different selling…
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February 4, 2015

Mark Leverentz: ‘I’d like to reduce fear surrounding technology’s impact on real estate’

Chief technology officer, Mobile Realty Apps Time at Mobile Realty Apps: 11 months What he does: In addition to overseeing the engineering team, I do development across all of our supported platforms, including Android and iOS development, as well as server-side development to support our applications. Age: 31 Degree: M.S.…
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February 4, 2015

Unintended consequences of listing regulations

“Follow the drugs and you’ll find the drug dealers, but follow the money and you’ll be surprised where it takes you.“ – HBO’s police drama “The Wire” Regulations governing the access, distribution and display of residential real estate listings changed many industry dynamics over the past 20 years. Traditionally, brokers…
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February 4, 2015

How listings will flow to Zillow, other portals

Industry players representing listing portals, MLSs and brokerages have finalized a model content licensing agreement that could help Zillow obtain more direct listing feeds before its contract with syndicator ListHub expires this spring. The model agreement seeks to standardize the ground rules under which real estate brokerages and MLSs provide…
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February 3, 2015

Don’t just curate videos, brand them

Real estate consulting firm Real Trends has partnered with video curation platform Tagible to offer real estate pros a branded way to present video content to consumers and their communities. Tagible by Real Trends allows brokerages, associations and agents to collect videos from a variety of video platforms — including YouTube, Vimeo, WeVideo…
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February 3, 2015

100,000 agents get single-sign-on access to showing service

Real estate agents are hungry for tech offerings that integrate. Real estate tech firm Clareity Security has answered this craving with an online marketplace that gives agents and brokers access to third-party apps and services via a single-sign-on dashboard. So far, 14 multiple listing services have deployed the Clareity Store…
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February 3, 2015

Redfin enters New Mexico, closes in on US-wide coverage

Redfin has opened shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, bringing the tech-focused brokerage one state closer to full U.S. coverage and into its fifth new market so far this year. The Seattle-based firm’s expansion, launched last year and boosted by a $70.9 million funding round it announced in December, puts the brokerage in 28…
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