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.”
April 2021
March 2021
February 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
October 2020
September 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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April 2021
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The nation’s largest residential real estate companies are capturing more market share and rapidly shaping the industry’s future into one more consolidated and large. The U.S.’s 20 largest real estate companies grew market share by 6.9 percent in 2020 over 2019. This article dives into the numbers.
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April 2021
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This article provides detail behind the Home Demand Index, the new homebuyer demand tool T3 Sixty released in partnership with Bright MLS in March. The tool gives 95,000 agents and 20 million consumers unprecedented insight into homebuyer demand.
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April 2021
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The pandemic depressed funding activity in 2020, but the analysis of activity suggests some important emerging trends. Read on for T3 Sixty’s analysis of real estate’s current investment landscape.
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March 2021
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The technology agents need, and will use, heavily depends on how they work, their strengths, and how they get and close business. This is why T3 Sixty evaluates technology decisions for companies and agents through the lens of the four agent archetypes, covered in this article.
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March 2021
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The Covid-19 pandemic has greatly shifted how brokerages and teams function, largely by shifting them into remote work environments. This change requires a careful attention to cultivating company culture, which becomes even more important when teams don’t physically interact on a regular basis.
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March 2021
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Real estate technology is increasingly getting consolidated in the hands of fewer, larger players. This article highlights some of the details behind the trend and the implications.
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: April 2021
- From: The Motley Fool
- Commentary
Costar Group, already the dominant force in commercial real estate data with some 30 acquisitions, including Lands of America, STR, LoopNet, and Apartments.com, has now turned its attention to residential real estate. CoStar, still consider an “outsider” by most everyone, is rapidly becoming an “insider” with its second significant acquisition in the industry — Homes.com for $156 million in April 2021 and Homesnap for $250 million in December. Two high-profile acquisition RentPath and CoreLogic did not proceed but expect more strategic acquisitions to continue.
- Reading for: April 2021
- From: Curbed
- Commentary
For the past eight years, the industry has been both scared of, and admired Compass. Its off-the-chart $7.4B valuation, four times that of Realogy – the industry’s giant and largest enterprise by a large margin (see latest 2020 study by T3 Sixty in their annual RealEstate Alamance) – is still deemed by many as a disappointment due to its expensive earlier funding rounds. Going forward, the now public company, with quarterly earnings reports, will face more scrutiny. The industry will see if it does have the secret sauce or is simply the existing brokerage model packaged with some new technology and branding. That said, Compass, at least for now, continues grabs the imagination of the industry even post IPO.
- Reading for: April 2021
- From: Forbes
- Commentary
Notarize, which provides a platform that helps real estate professionals and others execute transactions with remote, digital notary services, raised $130 million in late March. The digital real estate transaction has become a hot commodity in recent years as everything become more remote and the needs for digital solutions to support physically distant activities have increased. The all-digital real estate transaction is not here yet, but companies such as Notarize, and their investors, are pushing hard to realize important segments of it.