How to Ride the Wave of a Seasonal Sales Cycle

The real estate market is highly seasonal and sales are adversely affected by the drop in temperatures during the winter months. According to the National Association of Realtors' statistics, 40% of homes are sold in May, June, July, and August. This seasonality leaves many real estate professionals working at a cheetah's pace in summer and scrounging...

We're continuing an annual tradition of counting down our top 10 articles of the year. The following article was originally published in May and is #3 in our countdown. See #4 here. The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we live--and the way we need to communicate. Gone are the days, for example, when agents could send their contacts a calendar...

We all know that real estate is a relationship business. And we all know the things we "should" do to maintain our relationships--call past clients, send them emails, reach out by text--but it's not always easy to find the time or motivation to do these things. Enter Chirp, a new relationship platform from Happy Grasshopper. Each year, Chirp sends...

Wednesday, Dec. 30 and Wednesday, Jan. 6 As Benjamin Franklin famously stated, "If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!" One of the keys to success in 2021 will be to set clear goals, and to track your performance against those goals as the year progresses. Fortunately, IXACT Contact has built-in Goal Setting and a Dashboard for tracking...

WASHINGTON -- CoStar Group, the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces, announced its acquisition of Houses.com, setting the stage for its entry into residential real estate marketplaces. On December 16, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission cleared CoStar Group's acquisition of Homesnap, Inc., which...