Real AI: Florida, Headlines and The Beatles
Introducing Real AI – a human-curated weekly roundup of all things AI in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors likely to impact real estate, posting a new edition every Friday.
Consumer Savings Are Running Out
As I absorbed this snapshot about consumer savings, it shocked me into the belief that America is in for an economic drop this fall and winter. The flip side of savings is debt.
Finding new growth opportunities in M&A – Insights from the Acquiring More Profit Webinar
If you missed last week’s Acquiring More Profit webinar with Victor Lund and George Slusser, then you missed a great event. I would like to share some of the insights and takeaways we explored.
Unlocking Success: Insights from our “Winning Recruitment Strategies for Finding the Right Agents” Webinar
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Barbara O’Rourke of Allen Tate Realtors® and Brenda Thompson of HomeSmart Stars, who participated in our recent webinar, "Winning RecruitmentStrategies for Finding the Right Agents." This insightful webinar, moderated by Bondilyn Jolly, WAV Group’s Marketing Division Leader, shed light on invaluable agent recruitment best practices by top agent recruiters.
Black Knight Appoints Lucie Fortier As Executive Vice President Of Mls Solutions Group
Congrats to Black Knight for hiring Lucie Fortier as EVP of the MLS Solutions Group. Lucie has had a highly successful career architecting MLS solutions. Welcome back to the MLS team Lucie!
Compass Passes Realtor.com and Trulia in Some Markets with Parcel Record Listings
WAV Group believes that search engine optimization around long-tail address search is a best practice. It is not necessarily the thing that is going to drive massive lead generation and sales, but it is the right thing to do.
Aidentified Adds Search Filter for Move Date
Aidentified is a contact management enhancement tool that allows you to monitor your customer base for any changes, append customer records with missing address, phone, email, and household member information, and find new customers. Companies like Aidentified that tie BIG Data to your data using AI are seeing dramatic adoption.
What’s your exit plan? Here’s how to sell your real estate brokerage
Selling a real estate brokerage isn’t like selling any other type of business. Here are 16 steps to take before the deal is closed.
HouseAmp Launches Concierge for All Brokers
HouseAmp allows any brokerage to white-label the concierge service. They deliver the funding to make home repairs on properties.
Data Sharing Done Differently with Trestle and RESO
If you are considering a data share, we hope you find inspiration from WARDEX. WARDEX has positioned itself for data sharing to resolve the problems of overlapping market disorder.
Computer vision is revolutionizing MLSs: The appraisal industry is next
I spent a large part of my career in the mortgage business - long before computer vision was a thing. I was a VP at one of the largest nationwide retail lenders (Great Western), a Fannie Mae Director both in public affairs and later as head of the Seattle Partnership office, and finally, a mortgage loan officer for over eight years with the largest lenders (Countrywide, Wells Fargo and Chase) in the country at the time. These combined experiences give me a unique vantage point of looking at this industry from a 35,000 foot level and the surface as a [...]
WAV Group Proudly Presents “Acquiring More Profit”: The Ultimate Real Estate M&A Guide
WAV Group, takes great pride in introducing this groundbreaking book, co-authored by our esteemed colleagues George Slusser and Victor Lund. Acquiring More Profit: The Definitive Guide to Successful Real Estate Brokerage Mergers & Acquisitions is a collection of all the best practices George and Victor have perfected over decades of M&A work and thousands of brokerage acquisitions.