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T3 Insight Monthly Digest Articles
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June 2022
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As the market swirls with seemingly conflicting trend lines of increased prices, low inventory and low days on market, this article explores a leading indicator of homebuyer demand in three markets.
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June 2022
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Real estate data standards play a key role in helping push the industry data and technology forward. This article highlights where it is in its effort to provide and implement data standards across the industry.
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June 2022
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MLSs and brokers are also collaborating in new ways to advance MLS service into a modern business that consumers need and want. This article dives into one strategy unfolding in Tennessee.
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May 2022
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Real estate leaders at the 2022 T3 Summit explored some compelling themes and trends the industry and brokerages currently face. This article provides a brief overview along with some highlights of trends discussed at the event.
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May 2022
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In T3 Sixty’s work with brokers and agents, three technology categories have become apparent that brokerages find they can significantly improve the efficiency and efficacy of their and their agents’ efforts. This article highlights these categories.
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May 2022
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The Mega 1000 reveals that the nation’s largest brokerages as a group have gained market share during the past several years, but the gains have been greatest among the very largest in this elite group. This article presents some of the numbers behind this market share consolidation.
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April 2022
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Well-operated real estate teams have long achieved profit margins that surpass brokerages. A new breed of brokerage company is looking to scale this opportunity by partnering with talented agent entrepreneurs and support them with comprehensive services and guidance into profitable real estate businesses. This article explores this new model.
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April 2022
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Hiring, keeping and retaining talent is perhaps the most important activity businesses can do to thrive and grow. People are the engine that animate all success. This article provides an overview of how to design and implement a comprehensive talent strategy.
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April 2022
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With the maturing of industry technology and the increasing advantage access to vast amounts of capital provides. The 2022 Corporations report shows one impact of this: the degree to which the big companies are outpacing even their large peers.
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March 2022
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Understand the latest leading real estate technology in a conversation with T3 Sixty editor-in-chief Paul Hagey, and T3 Sixty technology division executives Travis Saxton and Jonathan Peterson as they explore the trends and takeaways of the 2022 Tech 500, which published this week!
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March 2022
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Technology has promised to make things simpler and more efficient for a long time. In this article, T3 Sixty identifies three proven habits brokers who successfully utilize technology adhere to.
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March 2022
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Real estate tech acquisitions have increased each year in the last three years and 2022 is on pace to again surpass the number of acquisitions the year before. This article chronicles the recent acquisitions and some of the reasons why it is happening now.
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February 2022
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MLS organizations are looking to control more of their own technologies and futures by owning equity in the tools and services they and their subscribers rely on, either alone or in partnership with other MLSs.
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February 2022
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MLS organizations are looking to control more of their own technologies and futures by owning equity in the tools and services they and their subscribers rely on, either alone or in partnership with other MLSs.
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February 2022
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Clint Skutchan, senior vice president of organized real estate at T3 Sixty and the lead researcher for the publication, hosts a conversation with three organized real estate leaders to help digest the numbers in the 2022 ORE.
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January 2022
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With demand for talented workers greatly outweighing supply, it’s more important than ever to build and cultivate a company attractive to outside talent. This article shares five top strategies to do so.
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January 2022
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True growth happens behind the scenes and deep down. That’s the orienting philosophy around T3 Sixty and its growth-oriented program T3 Fellows. This article highlights the proven steps to establishing a strong foundation and one brokerage’s recent experience in shoring up its foundation.
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January 2022
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With the rise of national brokerages and extremely profitable real estate team business models, the pioneer of the modern real estate team, Keller Williams Realty, has launched two new initiatives to push the team model even further. This article dives into details of each.
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December 2021
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As MLSs look to expand market areas, they’re also looking to modernize their MLS systems with choice, integrations and additional features. As MLS leaders must constantly investigate their options, this article outlines the MLS system landscape and provides high-level insight on the most-used systems.
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December 2021
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As the pool of talented candidates has become smaller, internal recruiting, always important, has become even more vital. This article outlines some of the steps companies can use to implement a successful program.
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December 2021
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The 2022 Swanepoel Trends report analyzes the top trends shaping the residential real estate brokerage industry to give leaders the information and insight to successfully adapt and thrive in real estate’s next era. This article highlights several of its key chapters.
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November 2021
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Real estate brokerages and teams need different technology at different sizes. In fact, the right technology for smaller firms just will not fit as firms pass a certain agent count. This article highlights some of the technology considerations for brokerages and teams at different sizes.
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November 2021
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Most leaders know the value of strategic planning but may not yet have a reliable, proven system that enables them to focus on the key business areas that actually improve the bottom line. This article outlines a strategic planning process all brokers can employ to achieve tangible results.
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November 2021
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IBuying has gained many headlines, but the real estate financing revolution currently happening is much bigger as companies innovate to streamline the transaction with alternative financing services, something T3 Sixty has termed AltFin. Zillow Group’s move to walk away from purchasing homes is just part of this new approach’s evolution.
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October 2021
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The 2022 Swanepoel Trends Report, now in its 17th year, provides key insights and analysis of the most significant trends shaping the industry in what appears to be its most dynamic period in decades. This article presents some of what industry leaders an expect from the report.
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October 2021
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Technology has promised to make things simpler and more efficient for a long time now. In this article, T3 Sixty identifies some technology areas and products with which brokerages and teams are improving their efficiency and finding success.
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October 2021
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Realtor association executives play a critical role in administering the important services local Realtor associations missions, from serving members with training and education to advocacy and administering a multiple listing service. This article outlines the best practices Realtor associations should employ to hire successful executives.
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September 2021
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T3 Sixty ranks the residential real estate brokerage industry’s most powerful and influential leaders and executives. nominate a leader you feel is worthy.
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September 2021
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While real estate companies tout many potential applications, AI is actually in its relatively early stages in the industry
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September 2021
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Housing affordability has become a big challenge in communities throughout the U.S., as home prices rise, particularly at lower price points
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August 2021
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The large real estate brokerages and technology companies are getting even larger. And it is becoming more difficult to determine who owns whom when companies maintain the brands of some firms they acquire. This post summarizes the most significant brands operated some of the industry’s largest companies.
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August 2021
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Many real estate leaders are realizing that improving the diversity of their leadership teams support their corporate ideals, but they may not realize that it improves their bottom lines. In this article, we discuss the business case for improving diversity on real estate leadership teams
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August 2021
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Increasingly, the power of real estate technology does not lie with the systems brokers and teams use, but in how they use them. And perhaps nothing influences the way companies can use different technologies than the degree to which they integrate with each other. In this article, we outline the four main types of real estate integrations with examples of each.
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July 2021
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As the brokerage industry matures into one with more public companies, more companies are offering agents compensation in the form of equity and revenue sharing that supplements traditional commission splits. This article provides insight into this shift.
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July 2021
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As the need to automate and increase efficiencies continue to rise, industry-specific back-office accounting systems are becoming gradually more important to brokerages. With many options to choose from T3 Sixty compiled a list of eight important questions and steps to help brokers to find the right system for them.
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July 2021
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Key performance indicators, or KPIs, are an invaluable tool for brokerage leaders to grow and adapt their businesses. In this article, we identify and provide details on the six most critical KPIs brokerages should track.
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June 2021
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MLSs have long offered services provided by exclusive technology partners. This strategy has created some vulnerabilities for MLSs when they want to diversify offerings or help themselves and participants fully leverage derivative MLS data. This article explores the importance of MLS technology interoperability.
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June 2021
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A diverse team has numerous benefits – it supports creative solutions, innovation, increased retention, improved culture and better decision-making. This article provides insight into how to develop and implement a diversity-focused hiring plan.
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June 2021
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The industry is consolidating at an increasing clip, and the strategy by companies vying for the top of the future leaderboard is becoming clearer. This article outlines the game plan by looking into one of its newest player employing the strategy.
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May 2021
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Rentals have long been a related, but detached aspect of the residential real estate sales industry. As the nation’s most popular portals mature and consolidate, however, they are beginning to also compete for dominance as rental marketplaces complement their for-sale business.