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Gerard Hagan, co-owner and agent at The Best Edmonton Real Estate Team, argues that the most costly mistakes real estate buyers make are emotional, not analytical. According to Hagan, buyers often become attached to properties and justify financial decisions after the fact, fixate on minor inspection issues that have little impact on long-term value, and ...
A former international fashion designer argues that luxury real estate marketing often misses what affluent buyers are truly seeking. Laura Pearson, a real estate advisor with Premier Sotheby’s International Realty in Sarasota and a veteran of 25 years in international fashion design, says the move toward coastal contemporary design is not just about changing tastes, ...
A longstanding practice in commercial real estate may be costing property sellers hundreds of thousands of dollars without their knowledge, according to Connecticut broker Jeff Kravet. Major national brokerages, he says, routinely refuse to cooperate with competing brokers on investment sales, limiting the pool of buyers and often resulting in lower sale prices for their ...
The proptech industry’s standard approach, offering mortgage products directly to consumers through websites and apps, may not work for assumable mortgages, according to Andy Taylor, founder and CEO of RetroRate and former head of Credit Karma’s mortgage business. Taylor, who has spent years building consumer mortgage platforms, says his experience serving 150 million consumers revealed ...
The U.S. housing market is weighed down by a vast inventory of low-rate mortgages that could help unfreeze sales, but a fundamental flaw in how Multiple Listing Service (MLS) data is handled means buyers rarely see these opportunities. Andy Taylor, founder and CEO of RetroRate, estimates that about 22% of all homes with mortgages have ...
Image Source: KeyCrew Media, generated with Google Imagen 4 Weather influences property operations in ways that aren’t always obvious until something goes wrong. Extreme heat can turn a maintenance ticket into a health-and-safety emergency. Freezing temperatures can turn a small leak into a burst pipe. Storms create a cascade of issues, from clogged gutters to ...
Buying a home is one of the most important financial decisions most people ever make. What often gets overlooked is that it isn’t one decision at all, but a sequence of approvals, deadlines, and handoffs — and at several points along the way, small mistakes can quietly turn into expensive ones. Alex Mayer, a real ...
Rochester, Minnesota’s four-time “Best Real Estate Agent” winner, says education-first content attracts more qualified buyers who close faster and follow guidance better than clients acquired through traditional marketing. While most real estate agents use social media to promote new listings, showcase sales, or highlight awards, Alex Mayer, a real estate agent of Rochester Area Homes ...
Miami property management executive Joseph Hunike, COO of Threshold, says the South Florida property management industry is failing to meet even basic professional standards. As investment flows into Miami from across the U.S. and abroad, many property managers are not providing the communication and financial transparency that investors expect in other major markets. Hunike describes ...
Real estate teams nationwide are encountering a consistent ceiling in growth, typically stalling at about 15 to 20 agents. Nate Armstrong, Chief Sales Director at K2 Omni Group, which operates in five states, says the cause isn’t market conditions or insufficient leads. Instead, it’s a structural flaw: most teams are led by individuals who cannot ...
The Florida residential real estate market is suffering from slow response times and complacency among local agents, according to Joseph Bograd, team leader of The Bograd Team. When Bograd tried to rent a property in Florida four years ago, he experienced delays that would be unacceptable in his Pennsylvania market, and he immediately recognized an ...
South Florida’s luxury condo rental market is facing a sharp decline in profitability, with investors offloading properties purchased less than a year ago as high HOA fees and soaring insurance premiums wipe out expected returns. According to Joseph Hunike, COO of Threshold, these escalating costs are undermining the economics of high-end condo ownership, pushing even ...
Pennsylvania broker Joseph Bograd, team leader of The Bograd Team, argues that current market conditions are removing underqualified agents and producing a more professional, competent agent population. While some in the industry view agent attrition as a crisis, Bograd describes it as a necessary adjustment that benefits clients and the real estate profession as a ...
As real estate companies accelerate their move to digital platforms, one Pacific Northwest broker argues the industry is overlooking a crucial asset: the ability for clients to walk in and build a personal relationship with a broker. While much of the real estate industry has spent the last decade investing in online platforms, Ellen Bohn, ...
Real estate agents struggling to motivate buyers in today’s high-rate environment may be approaching the problem from the wrong angle, according to one team director who says the key is reframing the entire conversation around what buyers can control versus what they can’t. Nate Armstrong, Chief Sales Director at K2 Omni Group, has developed a ...
