June 2025

Staging a home can make or break a sale — but the traditional approach is broken. Furniture rentals, photography sessions, and weeks of back-and-forth leave agents stuck in the past. Even the traditional virtual staging solutions take days to turnaround, while today’s buyers make decisions to attend an open house online—often in seconds. In a […]

Some brokerages are what I sometimes think of as “Lily Pads” because they’re waystations where agents sometimes go—albeit briefly—to level up their commission splits. And then they move on. Lily Pad brokerages attract and recruit based on a higher split, but fail to retain a cohesive team because they don’t lead with a culture focused

Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. The top five lenders in the ranking had a combined wholesale volume of more than $18 billion at the end of the first quarter. Most lenders saw a decrease in volume between the fourth quarter of 2024 and the first quarter of