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Jun 16, 2020,
Steve Murray, Real Trends President
Summary:
Real Trends is here for you. These are among the toughest times a brokerage will ever have. This wasn't an oncoming recession like most of the past 40 years—this is a precipitous decline in housing sales activity. No one saw this coming and most are not prepared...
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Jun 16, 2020,
Scott Wright, Real Trends Vice President
Summary:
A shift from a majority of traditional firms to other operating models has changed the game for business valuations. With nearly 4,000 valuations of residential real estate firms under our belts, we've practically seen it all...
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Apr 23, 2020,
Steve Murray, Real Trends President
Summary:
In many businesses, disruption has caused a significant change in the relationship between suppliers of services, products, and consumers. This was foretold in the late 1990s book Blown to Bits, where Philip Evans, then the Director of the Media Labs at MIT, predicted that the internet would ultimately rearrange all relationships between producers and consumers. They would be blown to bits.
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Apr 23, 2020,
Steve Murray, Real Trends President
Summary:
How special interest groups are impacting affordable housing.
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Apr 23, 2020,
Steve Murray, Real Trends President
Summary:
In our work ranking the top individual agents and teams over the past 15 years, we've seen an evolution of teams from what they once were to an infinite variety of such arrangements. These changes have compelled us to change the way we rank teams in our annual reports. We think it is only the beginning.
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Apr 23, 2020,
Steve Murray, Real Trends President
Summary:
Low-Probability, High-Impact Events Have Defined the 21st Century.
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Apr 23, 2020,
Larry Kendall, author of Ninja Selling and Chairman Emeritus of The Group, Inc.
Summary:
Are you playing an infinite game or a finite game? Shifting your mindset between the two.
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Apr 23, 2020,
Jill Belconis, Real Trends Business Coach
Summary:
Do you have the right leadership team in place, and are you pushing them to think and act like CEOs?
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Apr 23, 2020,
Real Trends
Summary:
Sixth Consecutive Month of Nationwide Year-over-year Improvement. National Growth in Buyer Foot Traffic Largest in the History of the Showing Index®
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Apr 23, 2020,
Sue Johnson, Real Trends Strategic Alliance Consultant
Summary:
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) plans to replace the debt-to-income (DTI) ratio in its Qualified Mortgage (QM) definition with an alternative measure of credit risk.