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January 21, 2015

Dianna Kokoszka: ‘When you change their thinking, you change the world’

Age: Are you kidding? Degree, school (if applicable): Metropolitan State Location: Denver, Colorado Social Media: Personal Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts — and MAPS Coaching Facebook and Twitter accounts What’s your favorite activity outside of work and why? Traveling with my family and friends and spending time at Lake Powell…
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January 21, 2015

What do HBO, CBS and MLSs have in common?

If I were to ask 100 people how they watched the latest episode of “Sons of Anarchy” — or, better yet, how they viewed their most recent “CSI: Miami” second-season marathon — chances are I’d find a good number of folks who used an app on one of their devices.…
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January 21, 2015

Merger of Warren Buffett’s Portland, Seattle brokerages creates regional powerhouse

Outsiders may never even have realized that they were separate companies, but the merger of two brokerages doing business as Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate — one in Seattle and one in Portland — has created a regional powerhouse with 725 agents and “a tremendous amount of growth potential.”…
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January 20, 2015

4 LA agents leave The Agency for Douglas Elliman

Douglas Elliman Real Estate is expanding its new Beverly Hills, California, office at the expense of rival brokreage The Agency, which is losing Jeeb O’Reilly and her team of three top agents Julia Brodsky, Tori Barnao and Gersh Gershunoff. The former owner of a catering business that served stars like…
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January 20, 2015

CRMs: A multitude of choices

Editor’s note: This is the third article in a series of stories examining how real estate professionals are using customer relationship management (CRM) applications to work more efficiently and grow their businesses. See Part 1 and Part 2. Mobile-optimized CRMs that integrate with many platforms, rank leads, automate responses and…
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January 20, 2015

Startup brokerage offering flat-fee services — to buyers

A Seattle startup brokerage is providing services to buyers including legal representation on a flat-fee basis, offering clients several options depending on the level of service they need and what they’re willing to pay.  Quill Realty, which launched last year offering to represent buyers for a commission equal to 2…
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January 19, 2015

Realtor association’s defamation suit against member headed to trial

With a defamation suit filed more than two years ago by the Chicago Association of Realtors and its CEO against a member who questioned the handling of the association’s finances heading to trial in March, colleagues of the defendant have created a legal defense fund on her behalf. Andrea Geller,…
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