Kate Evans

Are you in the absolute best city for your real estate career?

All across the country, top producing agents and teams are starting to get back to basics.

The laser like focus on digital marketing, whether through Facebook ads, SEO, or display ads, has been slowly giving way to something more central to a Realtor’s bottom line:

Relationships.

There’s plenty of advice for homeowners about what not to say when selling your house.

If you want to successfully market a property and build a brand, creating a memorable experience for your potential buyers and advocates is one of the best things you can do. There’s even a fancy new name for it: experiential marketing.

For many people, the word “networking,” makes them want to hide under the covers.

At The Close, we always have our finger on the pulse, so we know that some real estate trends come and go, and some change our industry forever.

We asked some of our friends at Compass and a few other brokerages to give us their best real estate nightmare stories.

Luckily, we live in an era where the collected wisdom of some of the smartest, most successful people in your industry are giving away their secrets for free.

Good agents are aware of trends; great agents know how to use them to their sellers’ advantage.

Capturing hard numbers on what the average agent earns is like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall. But here at The Close, we developed a salary database tool that gives unique insight into real estate agent salaries in each state—and we bet the results will surprise you. 

Figuring out how much money a typical real estate broker makes is like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. But we’ve got some great tools and information to break it all down.

Before you can sit for your license exam in Hawaii, you’ll need to complete 60 hours of coursework. These schools provide a range of learning options to ensure you’re fully equipped with the knowledge and study materials needed to pass both your course and licensing tests.