How do ACREs market they are different?
How do they brand themselves?
Is the market confused by a menu of real estate consultant compensation options?
Are we just sales people with an extra arrow in our tool chest, in case the consumer does not first buy the high commission?
Do ACREs have a higher quality of service? Do consumers believe?
Bigger question .... Are ACREs different?
This is a new business model for commercial real estate brokerage however maybe it can be for residential brokers also.
There’s a new commercial real estate brokerage in Southwest Florida — the names and faces will be familiar.
Fort Myers-based Grubb & Ellis | 1st Commercial is no more. In its place is the latest Lee & Associates | Naples-Fort Myers.
Richard Clarke, one of the local brokerage’s owners, said he and his partners jumped from Grubb & Ellis to Newport Beach, Calif.-based Lee & Associates because its decentralized business model makes more sense for them.
Since Texas is a "Minimum Services" state, An ACRE will have different compensation menu choices than in other states. This effects our marketing and promotion. Since we are subject to "Minimum services' whenever we sign our name, it is more difficult to differentiate our brokerage firm.
Your guidance please, I am clicking through the website of the Real Estate Consulting Institute and can not find a mission statement.
Thought you might appreciate this.
Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.
15 minute video of Steve Jobs
https://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc
There are five states which have laws regarding “Minimum Service Standards”
Meaning that If I sign a listing agreement, I have a minimum fiduciary responsibility
This was passed because some brokers listed a property on MLS for $500 and did nothing else.
Brokers have more responsibility to the seller
If I sign my brokerage name to a listing agreement, then more responsibility means more liability and more exposure, therefore higher fees and more tasks.
Recently, the invitation-only Realty Alliance bi-annual conference took place with no members of the press in sight. The Realty Alliance network of elite real estate firms is comprised of top brokers across America and Canada and accounts for a large share of the real estate industry. Although press was not invited, various sources have told AGBeat that the destination of Realty Alliance member data continues to be highly contentious. This spring, Realty Alliance was influential in the shaping of IDX rules and sources tell AGBeat that the group came together on the topic of data use at the most recent conference, with roughly 75 top brokers allegedly discussing seceding from their MLS, and banding together to build a national MLS run by brokers to exclude Zillow, Trulia and other media companies like Realtor-backed Realtor.com.
9 minutes and worth watching!!!!
Not directly about real estate consulting, but you may enjoy it.
It’s incredible that this 1948 cartoon has come this close to depicting our current day situation. It’s worth your time.
Every person in the USA should see this !
This was forecast 62 years ago.
What can a cartoon produced in 1948, teach us today, that’s of any value? You’d be very surprised!
Pay close attention! Keep in mind this was done in ’1948′. Keep telling yourself that as you view it.
This is one of the best I have ever seen.
This should be viewed by every AMERICAN.
https://realtyconsults.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/cartoon-about-america-in-1948/
Send this to ALL your friends
In a down economy, most businesses suffer. Some adapt and some fail. In hard times, most professionals look around them and wonder what happened to the pipeline they had so carefully built over the years. Many look like the fisherman above and feel like there are plenty of fish but they just aren’t biting. It is at this point that many give up, but for the resilient leaders of the bunch, it is a different story.
Home Buyer Dallas Real Estate Commission Rebate Programs are Offered by NetOffer, Inc.
NetOffer.com has offered Home Buyers a Commission Rebate of 2% since 2005. Any property listed in the DFW area MLS system (NTREIS) is qualified as long as the Buyer Agent Commission is 3% which is the typical commission offered to Buyer Agents.