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Transitioning to 2025: What to Expect and How to Prepare for the New Year
2024 was full of hurdles for real estate professionals. Given high mortgage rates, low inventory levels, commission changes, and rising operational costs, many brokerages saw a dip in transaction volume and decreased profit margins.Â
Given the circumstances, broker-owners opted to cut costs by selling office buildings, reducing administrative staff, switching technology providers, cutting essential marketing strategies like SEO (Search Engine Optimization), or lowering their advertising budget. Some agents even left the profession entirely.Â
But just because 2024 was a dif...
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GoRVAHomes/GoNNKHomes: The Power of Connection
Mark Joyner, President and Principal Broker for Napier REALTORS® ERA and the team leader of GoRVAHomes and GoNNKHomes, has been a proud partner of Delta Media Group for over 25 years. Balancing many roles and responsibilities — from multiple locations — he relies on Delta's innovation and support to keep him and his agents moving forward.Â
A Father-Son Team
Mark Joyner grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and began learning the ropes of real estate at a young age by helping out his father, Ken, a broker and new home builder. Since he was eight years old, he has...
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The Value of Teams: Communicating to Customers What You Have to Offer
As a real estate team, you offer benefits to buyers and sellers that solo agents can't, giving you a competitive advantage. To gain new leads and, ultimately, new clients, it's essential to market yourself effectively and communicate your value as a team.Â
Hone Your Brand's Messaging
The first step in communicating the value of working with a real estate team is to address it in your brand's messaging. Here are some key points to convey in your messaging to best appeal to buyers and sellers:
1. Specialization
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Why Brokers Must Keep Their Investments in SEO Intact
Real estate brokerages are experiencing enormous pressure on their already razor-thin profit lines as they face declining sales volumes, mortgage rate uncertainty, stagnant inventory, recruiting and retention contraction, commission compression, agent productivity reduction, the impact of team growth, and threats of new lawsuits.Â
RTC Consulting reports that real estate brokerages' average gross margins are less than 14%, and net margins are less than 4%.
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How Automation Can Help Grow Your Real Estate Business
Selling real estate often involves far more tasks than you can complete daily. Therefore, you must leverage automation to maximize your time.
The number of ways to automate daily real estate tasks is only expanding. Built-in artificial intelligence (AI) allows tools like those in our DeltaNET® to streamline workflows and perform tasks that once required personal attention.
