COMPLIMENTS OF JUNE 2016 NEWSLETTER FIRST PERSON REAL TRENDS A DIFFERENT VIEW VALUATIONS WANT TO KNOW A NEW WAY TO LOOK AT how much your brokerage is worth? ZILLOW AND REALTOR.COM Contact Scott Wright While traditional brokerage firms offer a wide range of services, firms like or Steve Murray Realtor.com and Zillow Group focus on offering a subset of these services today to get more offered by incumbent brokerage firms. information about brokerage valuations. by Steve Murray, publisher
[email protected] Many leading brokerage firms refer to their One could say that most brokerage firms,
[email protected] operating models as agent-centric. That is, regardless of their compensation plans or 303.741.1000 they see that their primary customer is the other areas of their business, are agent- agent and not the home buyer or seller. centric. The services they offer in marketing, Continued on pg2 1-3 FIRST PERSON 7 CEO CORNER 14-15 REGULATORY • A New Way to Look at Zillow • Dave Ridley, former CMO, AFFAIRS and Realtor.com Southwest Airlines • Share Your TRID Concerns • 1987: A Look Back at REAL Trends 8-12 HOUSING MARKET 16 VALUATIONS • April Housing Sales Show Slight Uptick • How are Multiples Determined? 4-6 BROKERAGE • The Unbalanced Housing Market • Does Your Team Have The • Vacation Home Sales Retreat 17-19 TECHNOLOGY Happiness Advantage? • What is the Lifetime Value of a Lead? • Drafting Ideal Team Players 13 FEATURED LEADER • Lead Generation vs. Lead Capture • D’Ann Harper, President, Coldwell Banker ® 20 PUBLISHER’S NOTE 1 D’Ann Harper, Realtors technology, education and mentoring or coaching are focused on providing these services to their agents and not to the consuming public.