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How to become a real estate broker & launch a brokerage — Advice from a KW mega broker

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When I started my first brokerage in my late twenties, I was full of ambition but had no idea what to expect. If your dream is to own your own brokerage and manage a team of top-performing agents, leading your team to success means much more than hanging a new license on your wall. Now you have to do some tedious stuff.

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Divya Aathresh on using AI to solve brokerage back office problems

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Processing is a big piece of what brokerages care about, so we have a copilot that we’re getting feedback on and plan to have six or seven copilots that will launch next year. There’s a lot AI can do here to reduce complexity, because it can understand language and we can train the model in a very real estate-specific way.

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FirstTeam’s Michele Harrington talks innovative recruitment strategies for brokerages

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Michele Harrington: After entering real estate sales right out of the Marine Corps , I built my own brokerage. Our licensing school brings in brand-new agents, whom we train and develop to help them become superstars. The duo start the conversation by exploring Harrington’s path into the CEO’s role at FirstTeam.

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Compass’s recent performance points to the future of real estate brokerage

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By contrast, legacy brokerages did not perform nearly as well. And among privately held brokerages, the one executing most effectively on what Compass is proving in the public markets is SERHANT. agents; SellIt.com, a sales training subscription program; and S.MPLE, a proprietary AI workflow automation platform.SERHANT.

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Housing Rights Initiative files massive discrimination case in Illinois

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The Housing Rights Initiative (HRI) is taking aim at 165 real estate agents, brokerage firms and landlords in its latest series of lawsuits filed in Chicago. Defendants in the suit include major brokerage companies such as Coldwell Banker , Christies International Real Estate , Keller Williams and Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Chicago.

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Year of change: Real estate pros reflects on anniversary of Sitzer/Burnett verdict

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What has changed for real estate brokerages since then? 31, 2023, and has since reshaped the business practices for real estate brokerages and agents across the country. “I’m We’ve always married very strong national training with equally strong regional training,“ Smith said.

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William Raveis acquires Nantucket-based Jordan Real Estate

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Leading real estate brokerage William Raveis is making another game-changing acquisition before the new year. This week, the firm announced the acquisition of Nantucket, Massachussetts -based brokerage Jordan Real Estate (JRE). Co-owners Gloria Grimshaw and David Callahan acquired the brokerage from founder Lucille Jordan in 2007.