The Future of Real Estate Belongs to Compass With a strong foundation built on agent expertise, innovative technology, and a customer-first approach, Compass is well-positioned to overtake Zillow as the most influential real estate platform. As Zillow continues to...
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Reffkin on 2025
I love that Robert Reffkin is becoming the industry spokesman - what he says is mostly accurate and informative. For the record, yesterday we had Natalie film my next video before I saw the boss talking about 2025 inventory:
Compass Private Exclusives
I guess if we're doing billboards it's not much of a secret any more. Selling Compass listings off-market to buyers of other Compass agents is legal and within the rules of the Clear Cooperation Policy. The CCP doesn't allow public advertising of individual homes, but...
Robert In Town
Robert the big boss was in town yesterday. He is committed to changing or ending the Clear Cooperation Policy, which is a controversial stance. The CCP makes in mandatory that every agent upload a listing onto the MLS within one business day after any public marketing...
Make Me Sell
Last week I received a call from the Compass Chief of Staff to President of Growth & Communications. His job was to notify all of the Compass agents who published something about our new program that took the same name as the now-defunct program at Zillow. Does...
Kayla Joins Compass
In what might be the biggest news of the year for us, daughter Kayla has joined the Compass family in New York City! Because she still has her California real estate license, she has also joined us at the Klinge Realty Group, making KRG bi-coastal! A few other agents...
Defecting From The MLS
In the week BEFORE the new rules went into effect, there were 29 NSDCC listings that were marked pending. In the first week AFTER the new rules went into effect, there were 38 new pendings. Homes keep selling. Buyers and sellers keep moving, and Realtors keep helping....
Robust Sandstone
This is a Compass listing now and it made the Robb Report: https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-for-sale/encinitas-most-expensive-listing-for-sale-1235806433/ A newly built bluff-top home in Southern California has come along to claim the title of Encinitas‘s most...
Hope For Buyer-Agents
We were on a call yesterday with our referral network of Compass agents around the country, and Gregg in the DMV (D.C., Maryland, and Virginia) said they have been required to use the buyer-broker agreements for the last twenty years. Great - a test case. How has it...
Clear Cooperation Policy Update
I got an update on the group of brokerages who have hired the same law firm to go after the National Association of Realtors. If they intend to disrupt the August 17th changes, they better get on it! But they are going let that go, and instead they will be pursuing...