Insight
Monthly digests, articles and press
Monthly Brief
T3 Sixty’s monthly executive brief providing analysis on the most important trends and developments as well as a quick digest of the most notable news in the industry.
The industry has so many stories, blogs, press releases and announcements each month that we all struggle to digest the information and distinguish between truly meaningful developments and hype or advertisement.
With T3 Insight, T3 Sixty analyzes developing trends, provides new brokerage industry best practices, and creates new perspectives on recent developments in technology, leadership, and organized real estate, in a monthly executive brief. It helps executives understand how the industry is changing in real time.
Each monthly executive brief also includes a composite of latest news and current articles under the title “What We’re Reading.”
February 2021
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Articles
Individual deep dive topics that T3 Sixty explores as part of the monthly digest
The articles listed here are an alternative view of the composite monthly brief. This offers an easy way to view recent, chronological, articles.
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February 2021
]This article covers the proven perspective and strategies for brokerages to recruit top producing agents. The successful formula involves a mix of understanding agent personas and archetypes, and then employing a strategy that leverages these for a particular market and brokerage.
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February 2021
]The pandemic has had huge effects on all areas of real estate including, of course, organized real estate. T3 Sixty’s annual MLS and local Realtor association scorecards reveal how each type of organization fared.
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February 2021
]The residential real estate brokerage industry is rapidly maturing, and nothing indicates this like the growing wave of companies within the ecosystem going public. The public markets provide resources and access to capital that increases the stakes and competitive firepower needed for firms to operate growing, sustainable businesses.
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January 2021
]Building a high-functioning remote company is now more important than ever. In this article, we explore the five most critical skills companies need to master and implement to find success with remote talent.
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January 2021
]T3 Intel provides digital, 24/7 access to T3 Sixty’s award-winning real estate research and analysis in one location. The service’s library includes almost 3,000 pages of research at launch and features an intelligent search algorithm that helps users accurately find the information and related subject matter they need. Learn more in this article.
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January 2021
]The residential real estate industry has an incredible opportunity to improve diversity in its ranks. The Real Estate Apprentice Foundation was designed to serve as a vehicle for companies and individuals throughout the industry to come together and help more people from underrepresented and underprivileged communities develop lasting real estate careers.
What We’re Reading
Notable industry articles curated with T3 Sixty’s perspective
T3 Sixty’s commentary on the stories we’re reading each month is included in the monthly brief. The most current stories are listed here.
- Reading for: February 2021
- From: FINMES
- Summary
Matterport, maker of the popular 3D, immersive virtual home tour software has announced plans to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) at a valuation of $2.9 billion at closing. The company intends to remain listed on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “MTTR.”
- Commentary
In 2011, the company began focusing on providing 3D tours for homes, but has since expanded to other industries, currently claiming the largest spatial data library in the world with over 10 billion square feet of space mapped. All parts of the real estate ecosystem are moving toward public markets to effectively compete as the industry matures. With IPOs and the relatively new SPAC route, companies have increasing options. Read the lead article in this Insight “Real Estate Goes Public,” for more details.
- Reading for: February 2021
- From: GeekWire
- Summary
On the heels of posting its most profitable quarter ever ($46 million in the fourth quarter 2020), Zillow Group announced it has entered an agreement to acquire real estate’s predominant showing system, ShowingTime, for $500 million. Used by 370 MLSs, the software powered 50 million showings in 2020.
- Commentary
Zillow Group continues to acquire components that power real estate’s infrastructure, and ShowingTime is another example; previous transactions include the MLS software platform Bridge Interactive, which it acquired in 2016, and digital transaction management platform dotloop, which it acquired in 2015. ShowingTime is Zillow Group’s 17th acquisition and its second largest by acquisition price, behind its $2.5 billion Trulia acquisition in 2015.
- Reading for: February 2021
- From: Harvard Business Review
- Summary
As the country begins to warm back up after its Covid freeze, companies and employees face the challenge of reopening physical offices, including convincing knowledge workers to return to their commutes and a tighter work schedule. This article outlines ways companies can streamline the return to physical presence in offices by listening and adapting to worker needs and wants, employing office rituals to bring a sense of normalcy and flexibility around communication styles and timing.
- Commentary
The return to physical offices will be one of the biggest challenges companies will have to make coming out of the pandemic. Leaders need to think carefully how to implement the transition of reintegrating their workforce into offices.