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Mollie Poe and Declan Hickey were founding members of Compass San Francisco before leaving in 2020. Now, they’re bringing four additional team members back to Compass with them. [#item_url] [#feedzy_item_url]

Frustrated with a lack of leads or a lack of conversions? Troy Palmquist offers insights and tools to help you give your CRM a checkup. [#item_url] [#feedzy_item_url]

ERA’s Alex Vidal offers words of wisdom and advice for real estate agents launching their careers in the uncertain 2024 market. [#item_url] [#feedzy_item_url]

Each sale is less about the physical property and more about selling a vision, Adria Lawrence writes. It’s about painting a picture where work-life balance, leisure and personal growth coexist. [#item_url] [#feedzy_item_url]

“Mortgage brokerage in a box” makes Entrepreneur’s list of top franchise opportunities for a 5th consecutive year, despite challenging conditions for mortgage lenders. [#item_url] [#feedzy_item_url]

The new service, available to date only in Massachusetts, where Earnnest has secured a brokerage license, is designed to alleviate the cost, management demands and above all else, legal risk of holding deposits in escrow. The company is looking to rapidly expand the list of states in which it can operate. [#item_url] [#feedzy_item_url]

Team Stevens, led by Lee Stevens, is one of the highest-earning teams in the state of Nevada, with $126.5 million in closed sales volume across 269 sides in 2023. [#item_url] [#feedzy_item_url]

The complaint — one of nearly two dozen targeting real estate’s long-standing commission-sharing structure — alleges that “most” buyer agents will steer clients away from listings that offer a lower commission. [#item_url] [#feedzy_item_url]

The Realtor.com parent company saw revenue declined 13 percent to $127 million in the fiscal second quarter. Mobile and website annual traffic growth remained flat — an improvement from Q1’s 12 percent loss. News Corp CEO Robert Thomson said he’s hopeful about the portal’s trajectory as the U.S. housing market improves. [#item_url] [#feedzy_item_url]