Real Estate Services

Most people think a real estate commission goes straight into an agent’s pocket. It doesn’t. By the time a sale closes, that money has passed through multiple hands, covered a long list ...

Many homeowners neglect basic preventative maintenance and wait until minor issues become expensive emergencies, according to Clem McDavid, founder and CEO of HomeMinder. Despite having acce...

Despite the rise of digital marketing and AI-driven platforms, some agents who focus primarily on online presence struggle to build lasting businesses. Agents who invest in community engagem...

In a residential real estate market defined by fast sales and strong buyer competition, one operational change may reduce the number of deals that fall through during inspections. Johnny Gua...

A fragmented underwriting system creates persistent delays as regional processing centers struggle with national deal volume. The Small Business Administration (SBA) loan process is contribu...

Real estate agents in Connecticut’s fix-and-flip market are increasingly competing on operational and financial expertise rather than sales ability alone. Some agents are providing investo...

Over the past five years, a disconnect between traditional staging and buyer preferences has quietly reshaped the Brooklyn townhouse market. According to Tali Berzak, a Compass realtor speci...

AI-powered search is rapidly changing how buyers discover real estate agents and properties. This shift is creating new winners and losers, but many brokers haven’t noticed yet. Rummy Dhan...

Since the pandemic, many Pacific Northwest buyers have shifted their priorities toward space, flexibility, and stronger ties to nature, creating fresh demand for island communities. Camano I...

A West Palm Beach broker argues that combining real estate, development, and design expertise creates advantages in evaluating and marketing high-end properties that traditional agents canno...

For decades, the commercial real estate services industry has relied on a fragmented model, with enterprises assembling networks of local specialists to serve national portfolios. Basm Mohse...

Real estate sales operate differently from other high-value transactions, according to Jason Madison, a licensed real estate salesperson with Stevens Real Estate. He spent 16 years in automo...

Advances in digital tools are enabling volunteer HOA boards to assume management duties previously handled by traditional firms. The change could reshape how the nation’s 70,000 homeowners...

The real estate industry is still grappling with the fallout from a series of high-profile lawsuits that challenged how agents are paid and how those payments are made clear to buyers. The m...

A member of a local real estate professional standards committee says she is seeing widespread violations of buyer agency agreement requirements, with some agents showing properties to buyer...