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December 2020
]Best Practices for Effective Strategic Planning
Many real estate leaders seldom think about what the end state of their business looks like or evaluate their performance from year to year.
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December 2020
]How the pandemic has changed hiring
Covid-19 has shifted the overall job landscape. The unemployment rate in April 2020 of 14.7 percent represented the highest rate since the U.S. Bureau
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December 2020
]A guide to real estate’s future
Over the last several years, the speed with which the residential real estate brokerage industry is becoming more digital, more sophisticated, more corporate has
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November 2020
]How to ensure a successful tech implementation
Evaluating and buying tech that will streamline operations, improve efficiency and open up new revenue or improve profits is incredibly exciting. Implementing this technology,
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November 2020
]Is it time to separate ‘church’ and ‘state’ in organized real estate?
Managing a successful MLS today requires more sophistication and resources than ever before. One of the largest impediments to successfully run MLSs, however, often
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November 2020
]SPACs emerge as latest innovation that could reshape real estate
As the industry continues to mature, a new path for private companies to go public has suddenly arrived with SPACs. This go-public vehicle gives
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October 2020
]The secret to hiring outstanding talent
When it comes to hiring, one of the most common blunders companies make involves picking a candidate who does not y fit the firm
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October 2020
]Recruiting funnel best practices and technology solutions
Agent recruiting is the lifeblood of real estate brokerages. Brokerages either grow or shrink — they never stand still. Because business always changes, companies
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October 2020
]Chicago-based @properties announces national franchise play
Launched in 2000, @properties has grown into the nation’s 11th largest brokerage by 2019 sales volume through steady organic growth in Chicago and in
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September 2020
]6 ways to improve brokerage back-office operations
Because it is easy to overlook the little things that work in the beginning, but may not adapt well as a company grows, taking
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September 2020
]Inside real estate tech M&A: the 6 most common reasons buyers buy and sellers sell
Companies have a number of tactics they can use to grow their company. While efforts such as expanding sales channels, improving product, investing in
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September 2020
]Real estate’s post-pandemic future
Covid-19 and the related economic shutdown threatened to significantly impact the real estate industry, as with most other sectors of the nation’s economy. Intially,
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August 2020
]Where brokers’ tech and digital marketing budgets go
Technology has become a must-have for brokerages, but developing an appropriate and meaningful budget can be difficult. The industry has countless systems to choose
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August 2020
]Discovery: the first step to achieving smart real estate company growth
Charlotte, North Carolina brokerage Savvy & Co. doubled its profits between 2018 and 2019. Not because the company did more transactions (that number held
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August 2020
]Expanding the American Dream
Most people realize the importance of treating all people equally and increasing diversity not just in the real estate industry but in our neighborhoods
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July 2020
]6 tips to build a strong budget
The prospect of creating a budget can feel a bit like that college term-paper – homework that you do not want to do. You
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July 2020
]The 4 biggest hiring pain points and how to overcome them
Finding and hiring the best people for your organization is critical to growing a vibrant company and fostering a productive culture. However, the process
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July 2020
]Inside the profitable team-structured brokerage business model
The team business model has spread like wildfire through the residential real estate brokerage industry in recent years. Tech companies and portals increasingly tailor
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June 2020
]5 steps of a smart technical plan
Real estate, as all of us know, has increasingly become a technology-driven industry. As such, it is safe to say that all real estate
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June 2020
]IBuying after Covid-19
When the economy experiences stress and uncertainty, as it has done massively during the Covid-19 pandemic, all business models face challenges, but newer models
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June 2020
]Fair and equal treatment is unconditional
Like many of you, we feel an overwhelming sadness at the systemic racism that persists in our country, and in the wake of George
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May 2020
]Inside the real estate industry’s most comprehensive annual compendium
After months of work and hundreds of hours of verification and analysis, the inaugural print edition of the Real Estate Almanac is finally ready
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May 2020
]Coronavirus recovery by the numbers: 4 real estate economists weigh in
As states begin to open and economies sputter back into something resembling fuller operation, a hampered housing market waits in the balance. Covid-19 has
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April 2020
]The ultimate real estate hiring process
One of the key components of building a company or a real estate team is acquiring and keeping talented people and one of the
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April 2020
]How the Tech 500 helps real estate firms and agents build a smart technology strategy
Brokers and agents have a vast pool of technology products and vendors to choose from and needs that differ based on business model, franchise
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April 2020
]As big brokerages get bigger, smaller brokerages react
The sales volume market share of the nation’s 20 largest real estate holding companies — which counts the production of both company-owned and franchised
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March 2020
]10 strategies to building a fast-growing real estate brokerage or team
Running a real estate brokerage or team is a full-time, 24/7 business. There’s so much going on: transactions, agent questions, legal requirements, mortgage, title
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March 2020
]Lessons from 2 high-performing local Realtor associations
Local Realtor association leaders have tricky jobs. They must work in concert with a board of directors made up of a rotating group of
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March 2020
]IFunding and the consumer-direct brokerage strategy
IBuyers – the companies that purchase homes directly from sellers – is rapidly developing into a broader category of iFunding in which companies, often
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February 2020
]Investment in real estate fintech drives residential to record $2.5B in 2019
The real estate funding revolution continued to accelerate with investors putting $2.5 billion into residential real estate in 2019, a 42 percent jump over
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February 2020
]How brokerages should leverage iBuying (and ‘iFinancing’) and its end-to-end real estate transaction promise
The revolutionary iBuyer model — in which companies aim to streamline residential real estate transactions by offering all-cash offers, fast financing and quick, flexible
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February 2020
]The 5 contract terms that imperil most M&A transactions
There is always an intense focus on the sales multiple when it comes to business mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”). In most M&A transactions one
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February 2020
]What one high-performing team’s journey reveals about brokerages
With commissions compressing, consumer demands increasing, and technology integration continuing, real estate teams increasingly offer entrepreneurial agents an organized way to grow. Brokerages increasingly
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January 2020
]Help build the industry’s most comprehensive company data
Thank you for helping T3 Sixty create the most comprehensive, accurate rankings available of the nation’s largest brokerages, franchisors and holding companies by annual
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January 2020
]Mapping MLS System Providers
MLS systems, in many ways, are the backbone upon which the industry runs. Agents use them to enter and search for listings and generate
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December 2019
]Happy Holidays from T3 Sixty!
The holidays give us an opportunity to connect with the most important people in our lives and reflect on the wonderful experiences and journey
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December 2019
]Your Guide to an Industry in Flux
The ground is shaking under the residential real estate brokerage industry’s feet. Brokerages big and small, independent and franchised face daunting challenges as venture
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December 2019
]Introducing T3 Insight!
Welcome to the T3 Sixty monthly brief, T3 Insight. The industry has so many stories, blogs, press releases and announcements each month that we