Will Remaining States Abandon Attorney Closings?

A notable portion of real estate industry vets-- agents or otherwise, report some form of legal background or experience. October Research released a report this month endeavoring to provide clarity on which markets operate under such regulations, and what correlation these answers may have to the connection between real estate and the law.

By |2020-05-01T09:59:21-07:00May 1st, 2020|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Research|Comments Off on Will Remaining States Abandon Attorney Closings?

Feeling guilty about working from home

Before the pandemic, according to most recent Census data, only 1 in 20 Americans worked from home. I am part of that original 5 percent group. And watching clients, vendors, colleagues – my spouse -- and others struggle to work from home, I am feeling incredibly guilty.

By |2020-04-29T11:43:04-07:00April 29th, 2020|Conferences, COVID-19|1 Comment

You GOTTA Check out VirtualHouseSearch.com

Broward, Palm Beaches and St. Lucie Realtors® and their MLS, BeachesMLS launched their Virtual Open House functionality with a big SPLASH this week! They launched an entire website dedicated to Virtual Open Houses, akin to Open House websites MLSs have hosted in the past

By |2020-04-23T08:42:42-07:00April 23rd, 2020|MLS, Technology|Comments Off on You GOTTA Check out VirtualHouseSearch.com

Looking to support your members in their time of need? Don’t forget about your built-in MLS technology education resource – RETechnology.com

As some of you may know the principles at WAV Group own a valuable MLS service called RETechnology.com, a portal designed to help agents and brokers leverage technology more effectively.

By |2020-04-22T16:05:09-07:00April 22nd, 2020|Technology|Comments Off on Looking to support your members in their time of need? Don’t forget about your built-in MLS technology education resource – RETechnology.com

CMLS Sets Best Practice with New MLS Data Access Marketing Guide

CMLS aims to inspire MLSs to review this paper and respond by putting up a page on their website to outline some key areas of information that brokers or their vendors will need to get started on the right path to licensing and utilizing MLS data.

By |2020-04-22T13:42:06-07:00April 22nd, 2020|Data-Driven Culture, MLS|Comments Off on CMLS Sets Best Practice with New MLS Data Access Marketing Guide

NAR Survey Signals Training Goals for Realtors Working from Home

The NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® published a quick survey this week called the NAR Flash Survey: Economic Pulse - April 2020. One of the key questions that we were struck by was related to technology. Read more...

By |2020-04-17T12:42:36-07:00April 17th, 2020|Business Intelligence, NAR, Suveys and Research|2 Comments

Brokers Show Power in Numbers: RISMedia Announces Power Broker Top 1000

The 2020 RISMedia Power Broker List has been published and there is some exciting news to share! Collectively, the Power Broker Top 1,000 garnered $1,491,869,249,084 in sales volume and 3,985,613 transactions in 2019. Read More...

America’s top-ranked agent exposes a “dirty” truth about builders

In Part 5 of his podcast, “How Production Home Builders win by maximizing the Multiple Listing Service (MLS)” – available on iTunes and Google Play – Caballero uncovers a dirty little secret in the home building industry that many agents know all too well. Builders unethically advertise the same property at different prices in different places. Read More...

By |2020-04-15T13:41:33-07:00April 14th, 2020|Strategic Planning|Comments Off on America’s top-ranked agent exposes a “dirty” truth about builders

BoxBrownie Now Offering 360° Virtual Reality Tour Platform

As 360° virtual reality tours like Matterport and the now defunct GeoCV emerged, BoxBrownie applied their services to enhancing those tours with their virtual staging and image enhancement. Now BoxBrownie plans to compile and host those tours too.

By |2020-04-09T13:23:05-07:00April 9th, 2020|Product Management, Technology, Virtual Tours|2 Comments

All eyes are on RESO Remote April 21-23

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. That's how many people, companies, and organizations, like the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO), are responding to these uncertain times. Unable to host its standard Spring Tech Summit in New Orleans, the team at RESO came out early with a pivot to create a digital summit version – April 21-23. That's welcoming news, as many folks will tell you RESO is the best-kept secret among all real estate conferences. True, there won’t be a #RESOnola, but I am ready #RESOremote. I need a conference – badly.  So, I have blocked my calendar [...]

Canvas Real Estate Sees Massive Growth Through Independent Tech & Training

WAV Group founding partner, Victor Lund met with Canvas CEO Ernesto Vega to learn about the key strategies that are powering success at Canvas.

By |2020-04-08T10:01:20-07:00April 7th, 2020|Business Intelligence, Technology|Comments Off on Canvas Real Estate Sees Massive Growth Through Independent Tech & Training