By Jeremy Conaway
March 19, 2013 – 1:17 PM
It was really a great session. While the fog swept across the harbor in San Diego 35 industry executives from across the country spent the afternoon sharing and assessing the current realities of their markets. Area after area reported healthy increases in sales volumes and prices. Inventory figures sounded like science fiction stories and the [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
February 19, 2013 – 5:16 PM
They call it Family Reunion and for 2013 it was Dallas, Texas that played host to over 11,000 raving Keller Williams Real Estate participants from all over North America and nine overseas markets who gathered to celebrate the company’s 30th birthday party. For those who made an appearance at CEO Mark Willis’s State of the [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
February 8, 2013 – 3:09 PM
Our firm is in the process of completing a survey of 35 leading brokerages across the country and as of the twenty fifth interview one could not help but be concerned about the results to date. Some thoughts by way of laying a foundation. The issue of recovery is a ticklish one in economic circles. [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
December 18, 2012 – 3:38 PM
Without question both the challenges and opportunities for the North American real estate broker have increased significantly over the past five years. What is not so clear is the effort brokers must expend to identify, monitor and track the events that have, over this period, and are even now molding the current industry operations and [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
November 13, 2012 – 5:40 PM
Over the past several months, the traditional real estate media and real estate related social media channels have been increasingly critical of the industry’s apparent unwillingness to consider either the natural or even unnatural expansion of its traditional brokerage business model through one of the many service opportunities [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
September 11, 2012 – 9:13 AM
Crucible: a container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures. These are complex, bold and very confusing times for the North American real estate industry. On one side we can see the invasive forces and increased influence of engaged consumerism, applied technologies, generational demographics, informational expectations, forced economics and global [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
March 6, 2012 – 6:27 PM
The American real estate industry is in the midst of a significant reconfiguration of relationships, alliances, arrangements, constituencies and partnerships. Traditional relationships are being dissolved as both firms and agents discover that the realities of today’s online and digital world is increasingly inconsistent and incompatible with the shapes, sizes and nomenclatures of yesterday. Every existing [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
February 11, 2012 – 6:16 PM
It is not too late you know. Remember that the first draft of your 2012 “To Do” list was created in the hustle and bustle of the year-end business cycle and the chaos of the holiday season. Before we slip out of the first quarter there is still time to take another look at the [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
January 20, 2012 – 12:11 PM
For many men, certainly those in the Boomer and Civic generations, there are no combination of words that bring so much terror as “we need to talk.” Statistically, almost nothing good ever came from this beginning. Quite the opposite, it generally means that some cherished bad habit or habitual behavior is about to be called [...]
By Jeremy Conaway
September 7, 2011 – 11:40 AM
A convergence is the process by which projections, objects, forces or trends converge to create a new outcome that redefines the original environment or condition. A convergence is currently being played out on the Internet in the real estate space. How might this drama play out and how it might impact your career or business? [...]
