Mortgage rates followed the trend of the 10-year Treasury yield this week and inched lower. But these historically low rates—averaging 2.86% this week for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage—are expected to rise over the course of the next few months. The National Association of REALTORS® predicts that mortgage rates will rise to 3.5% by mid-2021 as the Fed will likely start…
Author: Aurthur Profka
4 Tips For Hiring A Real Estate Assistant
If you want to increase your earning power next year you need to decrease all the little, yet time consuming stuff you do every day. You know, posting on Facebook, entering your listing info into the MLS and anything else you do that takes you away from real estate lead generation. It may sound counter-intuitive, but agents we’ve spoken with…
Real estate marketing in 2022: What doesn’t work for agents
Real estate agents are a different breed of cat. Self-employed, small business owners, yes. What a lot of agents fail to recognize though is that agents are in the B2C biz, not selling products, per se, but services to consumers. Researching better, smarter or less expensive ways to market these services is admirable. Taking any advice at face value, assuming…
Steal These 3 Real Estate Text Messages and Convert More Leads TODAY [Done-For-You Templates Included!]
So you’re generating leads online. Feels good, right? But the question then becomes: “How do you convert more of those leads into clients?” That’s where theses real estate text messages come in. An MIT study has proven that contacting leads within 5 minutes (instead of 30 minutes) increases your chances of connecting with that lead by 100 TIMES. It increases…
4 LinkedIn Groups every real estate professional should join
Back in September we explained to you why every real estate professional should be rocking LinkedIn. The demographics are more in line with the typical real estate buyer and seller than any of the other social media platforms. Today, we’ll be talking about 4 LinkedIn real estate groups you need to know about. LinkedIn offers ways to connect with not…
Why Every Agent Should Be Rocking LinkedIn For Real Estate
If we told you that LinkedIn boasts a 2.74 percent visitor-to-lead conversion rate, would it make you consider using LinkedIn for real estate? Yeah, it sounds pretty tiny, right? But, when compared to Facebook’s .77 percent and Twitter’s .69 percent, LinkedIn’s is positively huge. In fact, according to Hubspot’s number crunching, LinkedIn’s conversion rate is 277 times higher than Facebook’s.…
New Real Estate Agent? 3 Essential Lead Generation Strategies You Need To Know
Welcome to the world of real estate, newbie! You are now a licensed member of a group of professionals from varied backgrounds with one common goal: they all want to hit the big time in real estate. And that means focusing on lead generation strategies. How about that first day at the office? Felt a bit at loose ends, right?…
Big Data For Real Estate Prospecting – Get Those Seller Leads!
Real estate prospecting – the concept has been around for years, but it’s becoming easier and easier to do in our modern world, thanks to two little words: Big data. Technology is amazing, isn’t it? Think about how relatively “new” it is, yet it has creeped into almost every part of our lives. If you are of the age where…
How To Dominate Your Expired Listing Follow Up (free expired listing letter templates included)
Be sure to download the free expired listing follow up guide with templates for writing the perfect expired listing letter: Fill out my online form I changed my phone number a couple of years ago. About a month later I began receiving phone calls from real estate agents about my “expired listing.” Apparently, not only did the…
38 Dirt-Cheap Home Staging Ideas & Tips For Realtors To Sell Your Home For More
I’m sure you’re thinking, “Can home staging ideas impact the value of the property I’ve listed?” FACT: Research has shown the average sale price of a property can be increased by 1-5% simply because home staging tips were implemented before the house hit the market. Today, I’m going to break down 38 dirt-cheap tactics to increase the value of your…