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    Natural Beauty Meets Luxury Living: Inside the World of Maine’s Top Real Estate Team

    Above: Teddy Piper (left) and David Banks (right) When you think of the northernmost state of Maine, you probably imagine incredible views, delicious seafood and a serene atmosphere. For the No. 1 real estate team in the state, their first thought is providing a superior experience and exceeding expectations for their buyers and sellers.  David…

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    Don’t Lose Deals to These Preventable Issues

    It’s the fourth quarter. You are in the red zone when someone fumbles the football. All that work for someone to drop the ball. In real estate, this is similar to losing the sale last minute and unfortunately, it happens all too often. So maybe selling a house isn’t the same as winning a football…

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    Exploring Roles and Responsibilities of Real Estate Agents Regarding Renters

    In the world of rental real estate, the roles of various professionals are often delineated based on their specialization. When it comes to the realm of rentals, rental agents and rental REALTORS® play a pivotal role in facilitating the process of finding the perfect rental property. We will provide a comprehensive overview of their responsibilities,…

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    Power Broker Insights: Growing and Educating Your Team

    When Creig Northrop first graduated from the University of Maryland in 1989, he owned a video store and met a lot of people, and quickly realized he had a knack for sales, and that selling $250,000 houses would generate a lot more income than selling the latest movies for $2.50 a pop.  His mother had…

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    How You Frame Challenges Defines Your Ability to Meet Them

    I like art, but I’m the first one to tell you that I’m not very good at it. I don’t know all the famous painters, or the differences in brush-stroke styles, but I have learned recently that the frame they put the artwork into matters just as much as the artwork itself. Different frames will…

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    Team Tactics: Using Your Team’s Instagram for Local Engagement

    Instagram is a particularly powerful social media platform for real estate agents to connect with their audience in a visually engaging way. As one of the most popular platforms amongst the bunch, with nearly 144 million active users in the United States, Instagram can help real estate professionals establish a strong local presence and attract…

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    New York Median Home Sale Price and Transactions Tick Up in August

    The regional closed median sale price in New York was $635,000 in August, a 0.8% increase as compared to the $630,000 in July, and closed regional sales transactions increased from 4,383 to 5,243 in August, a month-over-month increase of 19.6%, according to a new report from OneKey MLS.  OneKey MLS’s monthly report on home sales…

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    Why Built-for-Rent Is a Growing Market Segment

    There is good news to be celebrated in the new-home sector. All measures, from new-home sales to housing starts to building permits and housing completions, are up year-over-year. Given the dearth of housing inventory in the existing-home sales sector, this is cause for celebration. Current homeowners are unlikely to ditch their golden handcuffs of low-interest-rate…

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    New ATTOM Report Reveals Markets at Risk

    Market challenges—including the recently rising mortgage rates, continued rise of home prices and general lack of inventory—have put many markets across the country at a serious risk of downturn, according to a new report from ATTOM. ATTOM’s Special Housing Impact Report for Q2 2023 found that New Jersey and Illinois have the highest concentrations of…

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    Inside Real Estate Furthers Integration with BrokerMint

    Inside Real Estate has announced the launch of new back office capabilities in kvCORE through an expanded integration with Brokermint, a cloud-based back office and transaction management software. The deep integration is powered by the unification of the data layer, allowing agents to seamlessly align the kvCORE and Brokermint platforms, and answering the need for…

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