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In the spirit of thanks and giving, BoomTown would like to thank those in the real estate community who have gone above and beyond to serve others in 2020. These awards celebrate the agents who are stewards within their community, put service over self, and make an impact by paying it forward. The BoomTown Give Back Awards How It Works! Nominate...

Working in real estate can feel like an impossible task. With new agents entering the market all the time, how can you stay ahead? The key to success in real estate is being more productive than your peers. This does not necessarily mean working more. Instead, you should seek to be more efficient with your time. Here are 23 productivity hacks to help...

A successful social media presence has to have content that will bolster engagement. To create content that is engaging, you first need to understand what exactly engagement is. What is Engagement? If someone has engaged with your social content, this means that your followers have done something like: Retweeting or mentioning your content if...

As Thanksgiving and the holiday season approaches, this is a wonderful time to show your clients, friends, co-workers and affiliate vendors that you are thinking of them. It has been a year of ups and downs and sideways. Our mindset, focused on the positive, can help keep us afloat. A positive attitude will also help you spread cheer towards others...

People are drawn to the real estate business for many reasons, including the opportunity to make an attractive income, be their own boss, have a flexible schedule, and help families find their dream homes. But being a real estate professional isn't for the faint of heart. It's a career that's subject to circumstances often beyond the agent's control....

This month, David and Victor invited eCommission's Founder and CEO, Sean Whaling, to discuss today's market and his company. I was surprised to learn that many people have not heard about eCommission or understand the benefits of advanced commission payment service to brokers and MLSs. How eCommission works, in a nutshell: once an agent has an executed...

Leading real estate experts and economists forecast a robust housing rebound. Whether we have a "V-shaped" or "W-shaped" recovery, real estate is poised to help lead us back from the bottom. iBuyers, among the first to hit the pause button in the industry, are back. More importantly, as global real estate tech strategist Mike Delprete points out,...

The Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) has ratified its updated technical specifications for RESO Dictionary 1.7 and RESO Web API 1.0.2 Core, effective November 10, 2020. MLSs, technology companies and real estate brokerages can now be certified on these updated standards. Certifications for both Data Dictionary and Web API will be granted...

Monday, November 30, 2020 at 9:00 AM PST Come join us for this training on Back Office! Objectives: How the Back Office solution fits into our Lone Wolf Marketplace Introducing Back Office with navigation and tips and tricks Know your resources Register now!

Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 11:00 AM PST The world is shifting and evolving quickly, and so are our views on what matters to us in our home, our business and the people with whom we surround ourselves. Brokerages are being forced to closely examine every facet of their business model and entertain, if not embrace, alternative ways of thinking and...

Monday, November 30, 2020 at 9:30 AM PST Ever been on a Zoom call and your audio isn't working? Or you meant to share your screen but you show too much? As meeting tools (like Zoom) become a staple in our lives, so do issues like these. That's why we want to help you and your agents in our upcoming webinar as we share best practices for how to avoid...

All Ethnicities and Income Levels Report Encountering Bias in Rental or Purchase Efforts NORFOLK, VA - (November 17, 2020) -- More than 15% of U.S. consumers have personally experienced housing discrimination as they attempted to rent or purchase a property, according to a new Homes.com survey of 2,000 adults. The poll comes at a time when a federal...

WASHINGTON--CoStar Group, Inc., the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces, announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Homesnap, Inc. for $250 million in cash. Homesnap is an industry-leading online and mobile software platform that provides user-friendly applications to optimize...

New interactive training simulation helps agents identify, confront discrimination in homebuying CHICAGO (November 19, 2020) -- The National Association of Realtors today announced the release of a new interactive training platform designed to help combat discrimination in America's real estate market – made available at no cost to real estate professionals...