REALTY OF AMERICA Launches National Virtual Brokerage that Follows a Familiar Playbook

The idea of ROA is pretty simple: build fast and strong with a talented pool of agents, and go public. 

By |2024-09-19T06:02:24-07:00September 18th, 2024|Broker Information, Industry Observations, Virtual Real Estate|Comments Off on REALTY OF AMERICA Launches National Virtual Brokerage that Follows a Familiar Playbook

The 11 Positive Side Effects of Brokerage M&A Stimulates Financial and Operational Growth

WAV Group has had the opportunity to collaborate with many of our clients to discuss the 11 positive side effects of successful M&A, since the publication of our book Acquiring More Profit.

By |2024-03-19T14:25:03-07:00March 19th, 2024|Mergers & Acquisitions, Our Company, Our Services|Comments Off on The 11 Positive Side Effects of Brokerage M&A Stimulates Financial and Operational Growth

Zillow Adds New Feature to Their Brokerage Website

Even after making the conversion from a third party portal to a brokerage website, Zillow continues to innovate on features that the consumer enjoys. In a recent press release, Zillow announced that consumers will be able to remove listings from their search results that they are not interested in.

By |2022-10-04T16:41:25-07:00October 6th, 2022|Broker-Agent Information, Press Releases, Real Estate Technology, Technology|Comments Off on Zillow Adds New Feature to Their Brokerage Website

Side is Growing and Looking for Great Brokers in 17 States

Side, Inc. is expanding to 17 states this year - much of it is underway. WAV Group met with Side to understand more about their go to market strategy and understand how they operate in the markets they enter.

By |2021-11-10T15:35:27-08:00November 11th, 2021|Broker Information, Broker-Agent Information, Press Releases|Comments Off on Side is Growing and Looking for Great Brokers in 17 States

Delivering on Your Own Brokerage’s Secret Sauce

Real estate brokerages need to identify a meaningful, customer-centric benefit they can deliver that is true to their brand and yet meaningfully different than competitors. We have helped tons of brokerages, tech companies and even MLSs figure out how to differentiate themselves from others.

By |2021-07-26T17:57:52-07:00July 27th, 2021|Marketing, Our Company, Our Services|Comments Off on Delivering on Your Own Brokerage’s Secret Sauce

Broker Resource Network Launches Powerfully with Attractive Opportunity for Firm Owners

The Broker Resource Network (“BRN”) issued their first press release today. Since January, the network has been forming through the efforts of one broker calling another, then another, and so on. In a short number of months, the group took shape and through accounting, these firms combine to represent the fourth largest group of brokers in real estate.

By |2021-06-16T14:35:47-07:00June 15th, 2021|Announcements, Press Releases|Comments Off on Broker Resource Network Launches Powerfully with Attractive Opportunity for Firm Owners

Keller Williams Forms New Holding Company 

Gary Keller announced today that he has stepped into a new role as executive chairman at KWx, a holding company that will represent the collection of all Keller Williams affiliates and subsidiaries.

By |2020-10-07T12:32:37-07:00October 7th, 2020|Broker-Agent Information, News, Press Releases|Comments Off on Keller Williams Forms New Holding Company 

Brokers Need to Weaponize to Combat iBuyer

Who is getting to the listing appointment first? Is it a traditional broker the first call for a listing appointment, or do consumers reach out to iBuyer programs like Zillow, Redfin, Keller Williams, Realogy, OpenDoor, Mark Spain, or others first?

By |2019-03-30T08:26:18-07:00March 19th, 2019|Broker-Agent Information, Technology|2 Comments

Zillow Protects Broker Data

WAV Group supports brokers and MLSs in constructing data licensing agreements with users of data records that belong to the broker. When a company like Zillow ingests broker data, likeZILLOW340x230 all recipients, they must adhere to the data license agreement which typically requires that you cannot allow the data to be used by a third party. The blog McMansionHell.com is learning the hard way that using data from Zillow without proper authority is a copyright violation that Zillow will pursue. Not only will Zillow pursue the violation, but they may be contractually bound to pursue the violation. The media around the case is [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:44-07:00June 28th, 2017|Main category|Comments Off on Zillow Protects Broker Data

Big Data Can Drive Bigger Broker Margins

WAV Group spends a lot of time consulting with brokers on how to re-margin their business. We published a paper in 2013 called Harvesting Business From Broker Data.  That paper characterized the methods that we developed with a number of brokers to harvest business from across the enterprise of title, mortgage, residential, relocation, insurance, commercial, and property management businesses. It has worked very well for many brokers to recapture repeat transactions and new business though cross sell. In many ways, the rethinking that went into the thesis around harvesting business across the enterprise was the first intellectual break from the [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:22:46-07:00June 9th, 2017|Broker Technology Research, Broker-Agent Information, Strategic Planning|Comments Off on Big Data Can Drive Bigger Broker Margins