In the latest move from the UK’s fierce property portal wars, Zoopla, the market’s second largest player, has just launched a red-hot 🔥 new app feature ‘My Home’, backed by a multi-million pound marketing blitz. And it’s all designed to make your job easier.
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Is Compass Basically Just Like Every Other Real-Estate Brokerage? Except with a nicer logo and an over-leveraged IPO.
By Reeves Wiedeman writing for CURBED
Last week, a deeply confused swath of the real-estate universe had a chance to get an answer to a long-running mystery: Is Compass an industry-disrupting technology platform, or just an old-fashioned brokerage with good branding and a lot of cash?
See MoreThe Life of a Realtor, in GIFs
Real Estate Agency can provide some of the best incomes you’ll ever earn. You know it. You’ve probably been having bumper months. It certainly explains the recent surge of new recruits joining the industry, all seeking a slice of that commission-based dream.
But it’s important to remember that the only time success comes before work, is in the dictionary.
So to help you with your daily graft, we’ve put together some light-hearted GIFs depicting what it’s really like to be a real estate agent. Because what good is life if you can’t laugh at it?
Continue reading “The Life of a Realtor, in GIFs”Let the Bidding Wars begin 🥊
The global property market hit the brakes when Covid-19 struck in early 2020. Since then drops in lending rates, fiscal policy initiatives, and new demand trends created a resurgence in activity; led initially by people trading-out of cramped apartments into larger homes offering more space.
For particular property types, prices are back at pre-covid levels, with many even selling above their asking price. Their landlords are seeing their prices bid upwards, and they’re riding that gravy train.
Enter: Bidding Wars! But how can you emerge as the victorious broker?
Read MoreDo we really need Estate Agents?
By Ayman Alashkar – Founder & CEO – OVERWRITE.ai
The raison d’etre of PropTech, or property technology, is NOT to make realtors obsolete.
Continue reading “Do we really need Estate Agents?”What “type” of estate agent are you?
There’s a common myth that all agents are the same. For many, the estate agent is a money-driven animal. Untrustworthy. Even unethical. But whilst some agents might give validity to this not-so-favourable reputation, there are equally some very good agents, representing some of the most hardworking and honest characters in the industry.
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