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March 2, 2015

What’s really driving KW’s success? Watch the video

Did you know that Keller Williams’ new CEO, Chris Heller, got his real estate license at age 21, and sold more than 100 homes a year for 18 consecutive years? At Real Estate Connect New York City, Heller sat down with Brad Inman and talked about how the KW business…
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February 25, 2015

KW opens up shop in the UK on the QT

In the latest example of an overseas expansion push that’s picked up momentum in the last year, U.S. franchise powerhouse Keller Williams has quietly opened up shop in the U.K. and is expanding its presence there. Agents affiliated with Keller Williams London are currently representing 11 for-sale listings on the…
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February 24, 2015

Opportunity and legal risks come with buying and selling leads

Three years ago, Ben Kinney made a proposal to a local real estate agent: He would pay the agent $18,000 if the agent gave Kinney the contact information of the 18,000 leads the agent had stored in his database. The agent agreed. Kinney and his team at Keller Williams Realty…
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February 23, 2015

Real estate brand wars and the future of homeownership

No more Z talk Marjan Apostolovic/Shutterstock Did you ever have a friend warn you, “Tonight, no talk about religion or politics”? I added another topic to the no-talk list: the Zillow acquisition of Trulia. Say the word Zillow and you must put a dollar in this jar. The other big…
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February 11, 2015

Is Josh Altman headed to Douglas Elliman? Don’t try to control agents and Gary Keller on the Internet

Agent talk Goodluz/Shutterstock Agents are independent contractors; they go when and where they want. No big deal, right? Well, actually, sometimes it is a big deal, particularly when it involves celebrity agents who have national TV followings. Nick Segal at Partners Trust tells the story of taking Madison Hildebrand to…
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WFG News
February 9, 2015

Gary Keller delivers 150-minute, 99-slide tome to 10,000 KW agents in Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. — Yesterday morning, more than 10,000 Keller Williams agents sat studiously quiet for 157 minutes at the Orlando Convention Center as KW guru Gary Keller delivered a 99-slide PowerPoint lecture on economics and the state of the industry without seeming to blink or take a breath. (See the full…
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WFG News
February 9, 2015

Keller Williams Realty announces major management change

Chris Heller, CEO ORLANDO, Fla. — Keller Williams Realty founder Gary Keller announced a major management change today that puts Chris Heller in the CEO role and John Davis as the president of Keller Williams Realty. Previously, Heller held the title of president of KW Worldwide and Davis was vice president…
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WFG News
February 6, 2015

Paperless transaction network grows by 53,000 agents

Paperless transaction management provider dotloop has signed agreements with three Realtor associations who will offer the dotloop platform to their more than 53,000 members, and make forms they’ve developed available within it. The agreements — with the Indiana Association of Realtors, the Tennessee Association of Realtors and the Illinois-based Mainstreet…
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January 29, 2015

Ability to customize and integrate helps vendor keep big client

Keller Williams Realty has renewed an agreement with its custom intranet provider, BackAgent, which touted its ability to build new features suggested by the franchisor and improve integration with Keller Williams’ existing systems for the extension of a relationship dating to 2011. The BackAgent platform integrates directly with “myKW,” Keller…
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