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.”
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
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August 2020
July 2020
June 2020
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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January 2021
]5 secrets to building a remote super team
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
]Unlocking the gems inside T3 Intel
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
]Introducing the Real Estate Apprentice Foundation
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.
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January 2021
]Inside the SP 200
The SP 200 ranks the industry’s most powerful leaders each year. The 2021 list, just released this month, helps showcase where the industry is, where it’s going and who’s leading it there. Read on for some more insight into this year’s list.
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December 2020
]Best Practices for Effective Strategic Planning
Growing a business is not difficult, it just requires a clear, detailed plan, a clear intent, and, often, a guide that can help provide feedback on the realistic steps needed to reach stated goals. In this article, we outline just how brokerage and team leaders can embark on a journey to growth.
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December 2020
]Best Practices for Effective Strategic Planning
Growing a business is not difficult, it just requires a clear, detailed plan, a clear intent, and, often, a guide that can help provide feedback on the realistic steps needed to reach stated goals. In this article, we outline just how brokerage and team leaders can embark on a journey to growth.
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: January 2021
- From: Inman
- Summary
Zillow Group begins charging for advertising rentals on its network, which includes Zillow, Trulia and HotPads, at a clip of $9.99 per week, per listing.
- Commentary
As companies expand their purview of the residential real estate industry, rentals are a valuable opportunity both as a tool for small landlords but also as connection with consumers who may grow into homebuyers. Zillow shows it’s building out a strong, multifaceted residential real estate ecosystem service.
- Reading for: January 2021
- From: Inman
- Summary
The industry has another commission-related lawsuit from a homeseller. This one, filed in December, challenges the practice of sellers paying buyer’s agents’ commissions. It names Realogy, RE/MAX, Keller Williams Realty and HomeServices of America and Massachusetts-based MLS Property Information Network as defendants.
- Commentary
The heat is turning up on the way homebuyers and homesellers pay commissions to their agents. Stiff competition from discount brokerages, the recent lawsuit and settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and NAR around commissions and the other pending large class-action antitrust lawsuits related to commission are not only contributing to a downward trend in commission rates consumers pay agents, but could shake up the long-standing tradition of sellers (and their agent) setting and paying buyer’s agent commission.
- Reading for: January 2021
- From: The Real Deal
- Summary
After months of speculation, Compass has filed to go public with an apparent IPO. The company has yet to release an S-1 financial statement, which disclose details about the business including financial performance going back several years. The company was last valued at $6.4 billion when it raised a Series G round of $370 million in July 2019.
- Commentary
The company will join a crowded field of large public brokerage companies when it officially lists. The industry is waiting anxiously to peak into the company’s performance when it files its S-1 as this document will reveal more details about the finances behind one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry’s history.