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Who’s making money off your listing photos?
Do you know who’s making money off of your listing photos, who is the one profiting when WE pay for them? This ties into last week’s topic of how agents get paid for adding listings to MLS, where we mentioned someone is bringing a fork to a potluck while...
How agents get paid for adding listings to MLS
Today’s timely discussion is on how agents get paid for adding listings to the MLS. We’re on this topic because of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) -- an organization supported and funded by the NAR. Their initiative is to make data standardized across...
Time to Rebrand Real Estate With New Standards
What we've all been waiting for! LEOPARD, the National Association of Real Estate Teams, is setting a new industry standard. We’ve been pitched for years that the “bar is raising” in the industry, but in reality, there’s way more “filling” of the bar with minimal...
New Member Monday – Janet Rogers
Did you know that the National Association of Teams and Elite Agents membership is open to ALL Elite Agents and Teams, regardless of brokerage? LEOPARD is the only consumer advocacy group that promotes Elite Agents in the Real Estate Industry. Joining this team of...
How industry lawsuits will affect how REALTORS® are paid in the future
First, it was the Department of Justice suing the National Association of REALTORS®. That’s now grown to several other lawsuits, including the latest against Compass, Sotheby’s, Realogy, Keller Williams, RE/MAX and several others in the State of California. This suit...
New Member Monday – Carol Royse
A warm and sunny welcome to Carol Royse with the Carol Royse Team to LEOPARD! Carol joins the ranks of other Elite Agents who are joining forces to help bring consumer transparency in the Real Estate Industry. Carol has been actively taking advantage of her member...
What will be the impact of CoStar buying Homes.com?
If you thought Zillow was taking over, now we're adding CoStar to the list. A little background on CoStar. CoStar is a publicly-traded real estate technology firm. They mostly focus on the commercial side of the business and first entered the residential side of the...
New Member Monday – Martin Sears
A warm welcome to Martin Sears with West USA Realty on joining LEOPARD! Martin is the newest member of this elite network of over 100 Real Estate professionals. Joining Martin on his team are: Michelle Schmidt Nichole Hardman Pam Nelson Shannon Tomson Please join us...
Have you seen the effect that NAR has added a new REALTOR® for every house sold?
In 2013, there were 1 million + agents + 5.5 million houses sold nationally. In 2020, there are now 1.4 million agents and 1.1 million houses sold. This is equivalent to adding one new agent per house sold. Rob Hahn of Notorious ROB made a point on his blog last year...
The opinion of REALTORS® and NAR is changing rapidly
Did you catch the recent article by Notorious ROB documenting the escalating adverse opinion of society against the current commission structure that in their words is overpaying agents? There have been more than 5 lawsuits including the last with Compass and...
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