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Planning an Open House? Don’t Forget These Key Preparations

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

If you’re planning on selling your home, you’re probably going to have open houses so that you can let buyers see for themselves the wonderful features of your home. How can you get the most impact from an open house? Now she wants to have an open house. The spring selling season is upon us.

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Study: Real estate firms thrive on repeat and referral business

Housing Wire

Referrals from past and repeat customers still generated the greatest number of inquiries for real estate firms in 2020 with 30% of brokerage business coming from this source, the same amount as in 2018, when the survey was last completed. In 2018, 1% of surveyed brokerages said their business came from open houses.

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Real estate agents: Do these 5 things in the next 3 months

Housing Wire

Commit to two open houses per week Maximize the return on those open houses. Call other agents that you have a relationship with that may not want to or can’t hold their own open houses. Hold open houses on weekdays too if you don’t have enough. Extend hours. This is your time to shine.

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Best real estate apps for agents in 2024

Housing Wire

In 2024, agents have two choices; learn how to run your entire business from the apps on your phone or tablet, or find a new career. These tools can help you cut your speed to lead time in half, market your business, generate and nurture leads, and even leverage bleeding-edge AI tools to 10x your productivity.

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8 best real estate marketing companies to boost your business in 2024

Housing Wire

Ahead, we list the best real estate marketing companies to help you grow your business. offers a wide range of direct mail marketing materials, from Open House flyers and brochures to door hangers. Before you can market yourself successfully as a real estate agent, you need to understand where your business stands.

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Download these 9 real estate prospecting letter templates that actually work

Housing Wire

The goal of this type of letter is to promote a new listing in the neighborhood, to position yourself as the expert by providing information about the listing, and to find more business. Definitely include a business card in the envelope, as your information won’t be printed on the letter itself. Are you still interested in selling?

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Brokers prepare for changes after Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit verdict

Housing Wire

“I think it will come down to the individual brokers to get the damages, and that kind of money will put a significant amount of the brokers out of business,” the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Drysdale Properties broker-owner said. This doesn’t have some immediate impact on the way that we conduct business.”