Real estate agents

How to Build Your Own Real Estate Blog

When you work as a real estate agent, you rely on the Internet to help you garner leads for your homes. What many real estate agents and prospective agents do not realize is that establishing a blog is one of the best marketing tools at their disposal. Best of all, setting up a blog is…

Real Estate Agents

7 Skills Every Good Agent Should Have

Whether you are already working as a real estate agent or you are only considering real estate as a career path, you likely want to learn as many ways as possible to improve your performance. The more skills and characteristics you can add to your bag of tricks, the more effective of an agent you…

Get more referrals

How to Get More Referrals

The social aspects of the real estate industry can be difficult to cope with for many real estate agents. Referrals occur when somebody recommends your services to another person, and they come in handy when you work as a real estate agent. If you are looking for new referrals, you have plenty of ways to…

Illegal financing red flags

Realtors, Watch for These Illegal Financing Red Flags

As real estate professionals know, selling a property can raise a red flag at times, particularly when it is a cash sale for a luxury property. This was brought to light recently by an investigation into a money-laundering scheme in the Miami area uncovered by investigative reporters and linking to offshore shell companies. While shell…

Real estate school

10 Reasons to Go to Real Estate School

With realtors selling 4,940,000 homes in 2014, according to the National Association of Realtors, it is not surprising that new individuals are entering the field as brokers and salespersons. There are many reasons for a person deciding on a career path to consider going to real estate school. Knowing what it entails can help an…

5 Keys to Your Success in Real Estate Sales

Success in real estate may be a relative term, especially because operating as an agent may mean something different for you than for other. You are operating as an entrepreneur, and this means that you need to really flex your muscles to sell as many homes as necessary to meet your goals. Unfortunately, it takes…