Tag Archives: trends

Build Your Legacy: The Four Pillars Of Real Estate Professionals

This week’s Recommended Article: Build Your Legacy: The Four Pillars Of Real Estate Professionals I wish I had known then what I have learned over the past 30 years I’ve been doing real estate — that would have saved me a couple thousand mistakes! Having navigated the real estate industry for what sometimes feels like [...]

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A Beginner’s Guide To Investing In Real Estate Notes

This week’s Recommended Article: A Beginner’s Guide To Investing In Real Estate Notes When most people think and plan on investing in real estate, the plan is usually to purchase a property and spruce it up to raise its value or rent it ‘as is.’ It could be a single or a multi-dwelling home. Other [...]

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Leveraging Social Media to Build Your Real Estate Business

This week’s Recommended Article: Leveraging Social Media to Build Your Real Estate Business This month, Real Estate magazine got to sit down with Rocket Mortgage® Media Manager Kollin Currie to discuss the ins and outs of social media in today’s competitive environment—and what real estate professionals can do to leverage social media to build their [...]

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Hot Housing Market Leaves People Afraid to Trade Up

This week’s Recommended Article: Hot Housing Market Leaves People Afraid to Trade Up Many families that have outgrown starter houses aren’t selling, contributing to shortage of homes for sale Read the whole article here.

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Emerging Trends in Real Estate

This week’s Recommended Article: Emerging Trends in Real Estate More than a year after the outbreak of COVID-19, real estate leaders are still coming to terms with the enormity of the immediate economic fallout from the pandemic and the far-reaching consequences for how people live, work and interact with the built environment. Read the whole [...]

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OGarden: The Future of Personal Produce?

We’re always on the lookout for intriguing innovations in home design, and the OGarden is exactly the sort of idea which gets our gears turning. The promise? A “compact and fully automated” garden which “allows you to grow up to 90 vegetables at the same time throughout the year.” Imagine living in a tiny urban [...]

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Modular Housing, Inferno-proofing Homes, & 2019 Design Trends

An ongoing feature in Tuesday Tactics is our “Great Read Roundup” in which we highlight some of the best pieces we’ve read recently and why they might expand your mind or help with your real estate career. ‘Lego building’: Can Modular Housing Disrupt the US Housing Market? (8 minute read) Why it matters: How much do [...]

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The Latest Data on Recent Price Drops

Redfin has just released an extensive analysis of the percent of listings with price drops. According to their research: “In October 31.3 percent of homes for sale had at least one price drop of more than 1 percent. This is the highest share of price drops on record since Redfin began tracking this metric in 2010, and [...]

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Reasons for the Move, Rust Belt Trends, & Contractor Wisdom

An ongoing feature in Tuesday Tactics is our “Great Read Roundup” in which we highlight some of the best pieces we’ve read recently and why they might expand your mind or help with your real estate career. Behind Every Move Is a Story (10 minute read) Why it matters: You may think you have the reasons [...]

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Designing for the Driverless Age

What do cities look like when driverless cars are widespread? What are the implications for real estate? This extensive report by the Urban Land Institute forecasts some of the changes we might see when car ownership and human-driven vehicles are on the decline. Here are a few interesting factoids from the report: The need for parking–which accounts [...]

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