Industry News
5 Common Regrets of Home Buyers
Consumers are faced with countless decisions every single day of their lives. While many are fairly simple decisions (what will I have for breakfast?) others can be quite monumental and life-changing. As a Real Estate Agent, you are undoubtedly well aware that buying...
MetroList Sacramento MLS Now Integrated with Buying Buddy
More than 23,000 real estate agents in California’s Central Valley can now add powerful MLS IDX and CRM features to any website Denver, Colorado: Buying Buddy, announces MetroList Sacramento MLS as the latest integration to its real estate IDX CRM platform. The Buying...
Buying Buddy Announces New Widgets
Real estate agents automate lead generation, communications using enhanced integrated IDX + CRM Buying Buddy announces the release of a newly enhanced version of it’s real estate IDX + CRM website plugin. The Buying Buddy IDX + CRM plugin is a web-based tool that...
Buying Buddy Is Now Available for ABOR: Austin Board of REALTORS®
Buying Buddy IDX CRM real estate lead capture and customer relationship management (CRM) platform is now available for Austin Board of REALTORS® (ABOR) real estate agents and teams. Buying Buddy IDX CRM is designed to make real estate agents’ businesses more...
ReColorado and IRES Merger Solidifies
The discussions between IRES and REcolorado and now moved forward to a firm commitment to merge according to a news release from IRES today. There is now a binding merger agreement between the two MLS. The merger agreement has been signed by Lauren Hansen, CEO of...
Amazon Signals It Might Be Ready to Jump Into Real Estate Referral Services
If you blinked then you might have missed Amazon’s placeholder page for a new real estate referral services offering. It was up and then quickly removed last week. This move has agents and brokers who saw the page wondering what the end game is for the online giant,...
Is Your CRM Like A Unused Gym Membership, Not Completely Leveraged?
Ok gym buffs, that analogy might not resonate with you. But, many will understand the comparison. We buy things or sign up for things and have the best intentions to use them, but then for, whatever reason, we don’t follow through. Your customer relationship...
Is Your IDX Plugin Invalidating Your Website Security (SSL)?
Late in 2016 Google announced that it would begin marking sites which collect sensitive information as non-secure unless they were HTTPS secure. For real estate professionals, this change is having a direct impact on their SEO rankings and the ability to capture...
4 Ways a CRM Can Increase Quality Leads
When it comes to leads, it all comes down to conversions. While a 5% conversion rate is considered a great conversion rate within the real estate industry, many industry professionals see numbers closer to 1%. So the question then becomes, how do you reduce lousy...
Dallas Area Home Prices Still Increasing Ahead of National Rates
Dallas area home prices are seeing growth at a much faster rate than nationwide rates. In January, Dallas home prices saw a 9.8 percent increase in comparison to the start of 2015, while U.S. home prices were 6.9 percent higher in January. The Dallas area is the...
Florida to Consider Harsher Penalties for Crimes Against Real Estate Agents
With the growing concern of attacks on real estate agents, the need to further protect agents when showing homes has been a growing movement. The state of Florida is currently considering legislation that would put harsher penalties in place for attacks on real estate...
Why do Denver Metrolist IDX large photos sometimes look terrible?
We recently upgraded our Denver Metrolist IDX feed to receive the large, high-resolution images. Although this was meant to a be positive development with an enhanced quality for you and your clients, we are now receiving complaints and questions...