There is a lot of real estate topics agents don't talk about because, A) no one really knows anything about the topic, and B) it isn't "sexy." There are no glossy photos, no vanity videos, pod casts, bidding wars, and no closing day champagne. But basis is what keeps the tax man from taking a bigger slice of your pie than he's legally [...]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FOR REALTYTIMES.COM MARCH 2026
The MLS was never about software or real estate platforms or monetizing data. It was about a group of competitors deciding they were better off sharing what they knew than hoarding [...]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FOR @REALTYTIMES.COM MARCH 2026
That scene in Glengarry Glen Ross. Alec Baldwin’s Blake, the “always be closing” diatribe—coffees for closers, second prize is steak knives, third prize is you’re fired. It’s the cinematic shorthand for aggressive, high-pressure sales. It’s great cinema. It’s [...]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MARCH 2026 FOR @INMAN SELECT
Compass’s assault on the MLS: How a private deal with Redfin threatens the open market
The Multiple Listing Service has been the backbone of American real estate for over a century. It is the shared, transparent marketplace where every broker and buyer has equal access to inventory, where [...]
The data war is here, and local MLS boards are losing because they still think they're in the cooperation business. Local boards had the freedom to be cooperative because, for decades, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) guarded our data from non-members like a dragon resting on a pile of gold and the cost of access was [...]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FOR REALTYTIMES.COM FEBRUARY 2026
Every week at brokerages, agents—both new and experienced—ask questions that get answered in varying degrees of correctness. The questioners usually grab on to this answer and charge directly back into [...]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN @REALTYTIMES.COM FEB 27 2026
January 9, 2026, Compass closed its $1.6 billion acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate, merging the nation's two largest brokerages into a single entity with 340,000 agents under one technology platform
This deal moves far beyond simple agent count or brand recognition. It represents [...]
August 2024 feels like a lifetime ago. The National Association of Realtors' antitrust settlement agreement snuck in like a thief, and we, agents, scrambled to understand buyer-broker agreements, compensation disclosure, and off-MLS coordination. Seventeen months in, most of us have figured out how to keep on doing our jobs in spite of the [...]
