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Warm lead? Here’s how to change up your listing consultation

Jul 31, 2025

When someone already knows, likes and trusts you, your listing appointment is different from what you'd do with a cold lead. Carl Medford shares strategies for closing the deal.

Summer prospecting playbook: 3 ways to build momentum while everyone else hits pause

Jul 31, 2025

While colleagues are taking vacations, Amy Corr writes, you have the opportunity to lean in on lead generation and personal connections that pay dividends for years to come.

Huddle Up: Building a real estate team with purpose

Jul 31, 2025

Coach Melanie Klein profiles Michala Costello and the Curated Living Team to find out how they stay connected and consistent.

10 fresh ways to move new clients from hesitation to handshake

Jul 31, 2025

Working with commitment-phobic clients can be a struggle, coach Darryl Davis writes, but with empathy and education, you can guide the most hesitant client toward a confident handshake.

Here’s what your next listing appointment should look like

Jul 31, 2025

If you normally get nervous during listing consultations, team leader Carl Medford offers reassurance that listening more than you speak can help you land the listing.

Real estate doesn’t need more disruptors. It needs craftspeople

Jul 31, 2025

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate President Ginger Wilcox shares a call to bring care, knowledge and professionalism back to the center of the industry.

In split vote, Fed policymakers snub Trump, leave rates unchanged

Jul 30, 2025

With job market stable and economy chugging along, futures market investors now think the odds of a September rate cut are less than even.

Kevin Sears says NAR ‘is going in the right direction’ since commission suit

Jul 30, 2025

Sears was optimistic, but said that NAR membership is projected to drop by 150,000 members and that the organization will face a $30 million deficit.

Compass boasts 10 all-time high metrics in 2nd quarter earnings

Jul 30, 2025

Revenue was up 21.1 percent year over year to $2.06 billion, marking a new all-time high for the brokerage. Transactions were also up 20.9 percent year over year, even as transactions in the market overall dropped by 0.9 percent.

Homebuyers still have jitters about the economy and job market

Jul 30, 2025

Mortgage rates have stabilized and more inventory is coming online, but applications for purchase loans fell by a seasonally adjusted 6 percent last week compared to the week before.

June contract signings signal rock-bottom end to 2025

Jul 30, 2025

Pending home sales dropped on a monthly and annual basis in June, according to the National Association of Realtors. Economists are split on what the decline means for the market as homebuyers navigate wider economic fears.

CoStar sues Zillow for ‘systematic’ copyright infringement

Jul 30, 2025

Costar, parent company of Homes.com, says Zillow is displaying thousands of images that are CoStar property — an act described in the complaint as "willful, mass infringement."