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Thinking of selling your real estate brokerage? Here’s how to prepare

Housing Wire

We usually represent the sell side of the deal and work with firms that range in size from small, one-office, 10-agent shops to the largest in the nation. This includes financials, organizational documents, agent productivity reports, operating metrics, vendor contracts, lease agreements, employment agreements, insurance documents, and more.

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Top Chicago team joins Compass

Housing Wire

Compass continues to expand its agent count. She continued: “We did our due diligence and reviewed other brokerages. There was no comparison; Compass’s technology and its agent-first approach reigned superior by far.”

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Opinion: Beware of the hidden losses of real estate mergers and acquisitions

Housing Wire

As someone who worked for a large, nationally branded brokerage for 30+ years, I had a front-row seat to many mergers and acquisitions. Back before iron-clad earn outs and claw-back clauses, I witnessed a time when two days after an acquisition announcement, the entire agent population walked out with the managers.

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Opinion: why real estate agents should serve their community

Housing Wire

Real estate agents and business leaders play a pivotal role in improving the cities in which they operate, making community service an essential value to their professions. Demonstrate your values to customers Buyers and sellers want more than just transactional relationships with their agents.

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The role of the buyer’s agent isn’t ending. It’s evolving

Inman

Former arbitrage trader, current team leader and new Inman contributor Jen Berbas speaks to the vital due diligence role real estate professionals play for consumers, even after Sitzer et al.

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The homebuyer journey is changing – So should you

Housing Wire

While addressing all of these issues is important, should we not have more stories and conversations about how brokerages can capture the most important stakeholder of all? Let’s dive into two areas that technology partners and independent brokerages can align to ensure that demand is captured and more at-bats are won. The homebuyer.

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Tech-enabled, hybrid brokerage Prevu opens in Florida

Inman

The digital homebuying solution that heavily leverages detailed online search and buyer due diligence before engaging its salaried agents now operates in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton and West Palm Beach.