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March 6, 2015

3 tips for navigating the expanding short-term rental real estate niche

There is a movement across America in city governance, municipalities, townships, homeowners’ associations, condo associations — in fact, anywhere that can impose legislation and regulation — and it’s growing. This expansion impacts second-home buyers everywhere, and it’s something real estate professionals need to understand. The short-term rental market is no longer…
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Susana Murphy on one major improvement — incorporating live-answer phone system

Susana Murphy, founder of Alante Real Estate, talks about how technology levels the playing field and why waiting to be a star in one man’s real estate production keeps her up at night. The post Susana Murphy on one major improvement — incorporating live-answer phone system appeared first on WFG…
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March 6, 2015

What are you contributing to the real estate ecosystem?

If you attended Real Estate Connect New York in January, then you heard Joanna Lord speak, and if you were like me, you were blown away by her. She is totally on my “people to watch list” (which keeps getting longer after every Connect event!). She has been immersed in branding,…
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Swipe embraces visual media trends to create a new breed of home search

Editor’s note: This week, Inman is launching a brand-new daily series of articles focused specifically on evaluating the technology you use in your real estate business. Have suggestions for products that you’d like to see reviewed by our expert? Email him at craig@inman.com. The pitch Yesterday, I discussed in some verbosity Doorsteps, a…
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March 6, 2015

Kevin Hincker: ‘The industry is currently dependent on a single technology — one invented 2,000 years ago’

Chief technology officer and co-founder, NuOffer Time at NuOffer: Two years. Describe what you do in one sentence: I oversee the development team and create new features. Age: 51 Location: Los Angeles Social media: LinkedIn  Kevin Hincker’s workspace. What do you do? I draw on white boards and go to meetings :). I write code,…
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March 6, 2015

10 free places to promote your real estate content

Writing content for your blog is just the first step in driving traffic and leads to your real estate website. Without great content promotion, you could be writing for no reason. You should spend the same amount of time promoting your blog as you spend writing your posts. This strategy…
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March 6, 2015

MLS systems: The best, and all the rest

A multiple listing service system from Black Knight Financial Services has snagged the highest satisfaction ratings for the third year in a row in an annual survey of MLS executives by real estate consulting firm Clareity Consulting. Among the countless technology tools available to them, agents consider the multiple listing…
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March 6, 2015

Brokers facing tough choices when portals raise prices for ‘featured’ listings

When Zillow told New York City-based brokerage CORE in December that the price of “featuring” its listings on the portal in 2015 would be four times what it paid in 2014, the company decided to cancel its ad spend. Instead of paying to feature listings on the site — blocking…
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March 5, 2015

Ann Bailey a leader in more ways than one

Ann Bailey has a 20-year history as an admired industry leader helping brokers, franchises and online companies develop and perfect their strategies and execute better. She came up through the MLS side of the business and continues to lead the way for many. What most people do not know about…
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3-D virtual tours of multifloor homes just got a whole lot easier

3-D virtual tour provider Matterport has added new features to its interactive online models that allow prospective buyers to more easily navigate and visualize homes with multiple floors. The enhancements represent one of the latest advancements in 3-D technology, which some real estate agents are using to grab the attention of…
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