I spent three days in Scottsdale last week where I participated in several sessions at Leading Real Estate Companies of the World’s Future Tense 2009 conference. Amid the golden Arizona sunshine and within the Westin Kierland, one distinct sentiment echoed throughout: The current brokerage model is broken. Throughout the day it danced around the panels [...]
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Tags: Articles, Branding, Brokerage of the future, Commentary, New business models, Real Estate Articles, Yelp | Filed in: Brokerage 10 Comments
First published on Inman News – June 30, 2009 The corridors of real estate echo with the anxious cacophony of futuristic business model chatter. Environmental branding, virtual space, marketing, social media and stemming the ooze of profitability caused by the open gash of lopsided splits are now on the gurney as the present model heads [...]