Heather Hook

For years, real estate investors and homebuyers have overlooked the Mississippi Gulf Coast in favor of flashier markets. Jon Lester, Head of Growth and Operations at Home Buyer Mississippi, ...

The real estate referral network is broken – not because agents aren’t trying, but because the infrastructure they rely on was never designed with independent brokers in mind. Mi...

There are beaches, and then there is Sombrero Beach. Nestled at the southern tip of Marathon at Mile Marker 50 on the Atlantic side, Sombrero Beach stands in a class of its own among Florida...

Some real estate transactions are straightforward. Many are not. For Jon Lester, Head of Growth and Operations at Home Buyer Mississippi, the complicated ones are often the most meaningful. ...

When Mukul “Micky” Lalchandani tells clients that the NYC luxury condo market has a transparency problem, he is not being provocative. He is describing something measurable. Buye...

In commercial real estate, some of the biggest hits to NOI never show up as a single dramatic failure. They show up as hidden networks, redundant systems, stranded CapEx, and technology nobo...

Jon Lester did not set out to build a real estate brand in Mississippi. It started with a beat-up house on a street in Long Beach, a conversation with his parents, and a gut feeling that wou...

The rise of remote work has quietly created a gap in how employers support their teams. When employees work from an office, a broken HVAC system or a plumbing failure is the building manager...

In a market where most investors demand immediate cash flow, a veteran commercial operator is re-entering multifamily with a counterintuitive strategy: acquire at zero, profit after taxes, a...

Most team leaders in real estate spend their mornings reviewing pipeline numbers. Jeff Biebuyck, co-founder of the Frontgate Real Estate Team at Compass in Los Angeles, spends his Fridays ru...

When a home warranty company dispatches a technician to your home, the experience you have with that technician is the experience you have with the warranty company. It does not matter how s...

The largest residential brokerage consolidation in American history is raising a practical question for agents and clients: does scale improve the experience, or flatten it? Compass now cont...

There is a particular kind of traveler for whom the friction of arrival matters as much as the destination itself. For that person – the one who measures journeys in efficiency and val...

Most agents say they have a book in them. Daniel Berger sat down and wrote one. Adventures of a Real Estate Broker: And Other Stories is a 14-chapter collection of true stories from Berger&#...

Florida’s real estate market has dominated the national conversation for years, but not always for the right reasons. Stories of skyrocketing insurance premiums, aging condo buildings,...