Today's RealTrending podcast features Nick Ron, CEO of House Buyers of America, which buys renovates and resells homes. Ron discusses the difference between his company and an iBuyer and how important it is to have a personal touch.

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Today’s RealTrending features features Rivers Pearce, chief marketing officer, and Dustin Gray, founder and CEO of Milestones, a homeowner portal that just raised 10.3 million in Series A funding. 

They discuss how real estate agents can move away from being transactional and move to being more intentional in building relationships.

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Today’s RealTrending features Michael Scanlon and Jake Fugeman, team leaders for Axon Group, powered by eXp Realty and based in Chicago. After investing in real estate themselves, the duo decided to start a real estate practice working with investors. 

While they've expanded their niche to all buyers and sellers, they still work heavily with smaller investors. Here's who they did it. 

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Today’s RealTrending features Mike Lane, president of ShowingTime. Mike shares the latest on ShowingTime's evolving platform post-Zillow acquisition and offers some market trend on which real estate markets are still hot based on their data. 

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Today’s RealTrending features Tim Heyl, founder of Homeward and of The Heyl Group  of Keller Williams Realty in Austin. The Heyl Group is ranked number two large team by transaction sides and number five by sales volume in the 2022 RealTrends, The Thousand rankings. 

Heyl discusses the new financing options for consumers, why teams aren't competition for brokers and the innovation in the real estate industry.

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Today’s RealTrending features Marnie Blanco, vice president of industry for Pacaso. Marnie shares how the company is tweaking its strategy, trends in co-ownership and what brokers and agents can do to compete in today's market.

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Today’s RealTrending features Anna-Marie Ellison, managing partner of ERA King Real Estate in Alabama, and a RealTrends GameChanger.  Anna-Marie talks about how she's investing in boosting agent productivity and the tactics she's using to do so.

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Today’s RealTrending features Brian Bair, founder and CEO of Offerpad. Brian talks about the future of iBuying, if the company strategy may change due to the market shift and what they are doing to streamline the process.

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Today’s RealTrending features Long Doan, CEO of Realty Group LLC in Minneapolis. Doan was named a 2022 RealTrends GameChanger for achieving 292% growth by transaction side percentage over the past five years.

Coming to the U.S. as a 13-year-old refugee during the Vietnam War, Doan had an aha moment. "The first night I was at the refugee camp, it hit me. I found a spot on the beach and I remember crying all night. I was a 13 year old boy, alone. I thought to myself, 'Wait a minute. Am I lucky, or am I unlucky?' The sun was coming up, and I remember telling myself that, 'Just put your big boy pants on and go to work,' because I decided that I was a victor, not a victim. I actually was lucky, not unlucky. And your mind is powerful. When you decide something, you are right."

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Today’s RealTrending features Steve Murray, senior advisor to RealTrends and a partner with RTC Consulting. Murray recently research more than 730 real estate firms to find out the leaders in growth over the past 10 years. The report, The Secrets of Top-Growth Firms, is available now.

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