By Declan Spring
Real estate market updates, and conversations of substance with people I admire, mostly in the field of residential real estate in the San Francisco East Bay Area. This show is both industry facing
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It’s a lovely weekend to visit Open Homes!
Quick shout out to Kevin Roose, co-host of The NY Times podcast Hard Fork, along with Casey Newton, and my guest on Episode 16 of the podcast, for keeping their audience current on what's happening on the wild frontier of tech, and the inspiration for the format of this Weekend Open Homes & Market Analysis.
We’re happy to provide a complete list of *all Inner-East Bay open homes for this weekend, please click here.
*Areas covered: Berkeley, Oakland, Piedmont, Albany, Kensington, El Cerrito, Richmond, El Sobrante, Pinole, Hercules, Crockett.
For Open Homes limited mostly to the Berkeley area, we're happy to share the ‘Adreview’. The Adreview is a private Berkeley publication of open homes. It has a pleasant format but is by no means an exhaustive list of open homes in the Inner-East Bay.
For this week’s Saturday Open Homes ‘Ad Review’ please click here.
For this week’s Sunday Open Homes ‘Ad Review’ please click here.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us about property listed here, we’re happy to answer your questions!
For the printed data referenced in this podcast please reach out to [email protected]
Declan Spring is a licensed CA REALTOR® DRE#01398898
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During his almost 30 years in real estate, David Gunderman has become the most successful agent in his area, a true industry leader, and in 2022, the Gunderman Group became the third-highest volume producing group in all of Keller Williams.
Dedicated to the “chosen family” model of business, David has gathered a team with deep roots in the community—a group of highly-skilled professionals who believe that every choice, every decision, every action they take must be steeped in strategy, awareness, and respect for each client’s unique life circumstances.
David’s many life experiences have contributed to his unique style, skill set, wisdom, and success. In our conversation, David and I discuss his background, career in theater, the various life experiences that inform his values, team building, advice to newer agents, consumer changes during his career, and industry changes to the purchase process since new NAR rules recently came into effect.
You can find the Gunderman Group on the web here, and on Instagram here.
David Gunderman is a licensed CA REALTOR® DRE#01313613
Declan Spring is a licensed CA REALTOR® DRE#01398898
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It's been two weeks since my last podcast, The Dawn Of A New Era of Real Estate Practice. I recorded that podcast on the eve of August 17, a day before new rules came into effect from the National Association of REALTORS® that decouple compensation to the Buyer's Broker from the Residential Listing Agreement, and most Multiple Listing Services, and put the burden of responsibility for compensation to the Buyer's Broker on the Buyer in the form of a Buyer Representation and Broker Compensation Agreement. If you haven’t listened to that 11 minute episode I encourage you to do so. It will provide context for this episode. This episode is similarly short and, again, I don’t have a guest. For efficiency, It’s just my voice again following up with notes on what I’ve seen and what seems to be emergent over the past couple of weeks. Enjoy!
There's a lot of information packed into this short episode. For convenience, please find a transcript to the episode here.
For Buyers: Please find a guide from the National Association of REALTORS® here.
For Sellers: Please find a guide from the National Association of REALTORS® here.
Declan Spring is a licensed CA REALTOR® DRE#01398898
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Starting August 17 we enter into a new era of real estate practice in terms of how the buyer's broker gets compensated for the hard work of the individual buyer’s agent.
There's a lot of information packed into this short episode. For convenience, please find a transcript to the episode here.
I’m going to keep strictly to the facts here. This is not the right time or place to offer an opinion, or to speculate about how all of the following will unfold. Frankly, it will take several months at minimum for each State, each region, each metro, each city, and possibly even each neighborhood to find their new normal.
Although these changes are national, I can only discuss the forms that we’re using in California since I’m licensed only in California and have access only to the California Association of Realtors forms library.
For Buyers: Please find a guide from the National Association of REALTORS® here.
For Sellers: Please find a guide from the National Association of REALTORS® here.
Declan Spring is a licensed CA REALTOR® DRE#01398898
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Carrie McAlister is a top producing East Bay Realtor®, founder of Calia Homes, and Team Leader for the newest Keller Williams office in Berkeley, branded as Bay Area Portfolio.Ideas for the show or to want just to support us? Send us a text!
Jodi Nishimura is a top producing East Bay Realtor® and the founder of Kai Real Estate.
Jodi has earned several distinctions both locally and nationally. Most recently, she is in the top 1% of Realtors® for the East Bay and was a recipient of Real Trends America’s “Best” designation — landing her in the top 0.5% of all real estate agents nationwide.
Jodi and I talk her upbringing in Hawaii, her background in education, and her eventual move to the Bay Area after stints in Japan, and New York. Jodi's journey into real estate started as an investor, then as a Realtor®, culminating more recently in the founding of her own brand, Kai Real Estate, with an office on Solano Avenue in Berkeley.
We talk about the value of coaching, the mental block that local Realtors® sometimes have with recognizing themselves as sales people, her decision to launch Kai Real Estate, why it is that Kai is attractive to newer licencees, the value that Realtors® bring to their local community, and the value and benefits of working with Jodi.
In Jodi's own words, her favorite part of the work is "The gratification of helping clients make wise decisions that impact their future, the gratitude and humility that comes with being trusted by them to do so, and the joy in partnering with them in this part of their life’s journey."
Jodi Nishimura is a licensed CA REALTOR® DRE# 01762935
Declan Spring is a licensed CA REALTOR® DRE#01398898
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Pleasure and joy might be deemed frivolous by society at large but according to Katie Macks they are your birthright.
Katie Macks is a leadership coach, and her brand is Audacious Leadership.
From Katie's website: "Audacious leadership values our differences and creates an environment of belonging. We value and fortify one another with dignity, respect, and love and we’re changing the way business gets done! We are ushering in a new paradigm of leadership and business practices that changes the way we relate in our businesses and in our lives."
Katie's message and coaching will be of benefit to anyone listening, but for real estate agents there's the added bonus that Katie was a top-producing real estate agent in a past life so she really understands and can empathize with the personal challenges faced by real estate agents.
To schedule a 30 minute alignment call with Katie at no cost please click here.
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"Few things in life motivate me more than helping others get along more effectively. The core of everything I do rests firmly on a foundation of collaboration and collaborative problem-solving."
So says Shawn Dunning, my guest on this episode of the podcast, a collaborative leadership, conflict resolution, & team development consultant.
Shawn and I spend the first half of our conversation discussing his deep dive into local politics in 2022. Shawn ran for Mayor of the City of Richmond as an outsider in 2022 and came closer to holding office than anyone could have imagined. Following his mayoral campaign Shawn has set his sights for 2024 on a seat on Richmond City Council in District 6.
The second half of our conversation is devoted entirely to Shawn's professional career as collaborative leadership, and conflict resolution consultant. We discuss primarily intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict, and the A, B, C of conflict resolution.
To find out more about Shawn's consulting practice please click here. To gain insight into his political agenda please click here. To listen to a conversation I had with Shawn during his run for Mayor in 2022 please click here. To view Shawn's LinkedIn profile please click here.
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Aman Daro has become a regular on the podcast, and with good reason. If you've ever received statistical charts from me or any Red Oak Realty agent showing aspects of the real estate market in the East Bay most likely they were conceived of and compiled by Aman Daro. Aman Daro is COO at Red Oak Realty but is more fondly thought of as "the data guy".
We invite you to follow along with our chat, a conversation around the 2023 Q3 East Bay Stats Report released a couple of week ago by Red Oak Realty, by viewing the 91 page report here as we highlight specific page numbers. Yes! It's an interactive live podcast!
If you follow the podcast episodes with Aman what emerges is the story of the East Bay real estate market. In our last chat we speculated that the theme of 2023 would be low inventory. That definitely has been the case. But there's so much more.
I encourage you to listen to episode #5 of the podcast, my first conversation with Aman, to better understand his mission at Red Oak Realty and his approach to tracking data and uncovering market trends.
Aman Daro is CA licensed real estate agent DRE##1350412
Declan Spring is a licensed CA REALTOR® DRE#01398898
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Chris Brown has been selling homes in Las Vegas for 5 years and is widely respected as one of the top social media agents in the valley specializing in relocation and new-construction single-family homes. Chris is a Los Angeles native who moved to Las Vegas after spending three years in Orlando, Florida working in collegiate and professional sports. In the past year, Chris has sold nearly $10 million worth of real estate with 90% of his clients coming from social media.
After working as an agent on a team with EXP Realty Chris decided to depart and join the number #1 luxury brokerage Simply Vegas as a solo agent. During this transition, Chris committed to targeting his clients 100% through social media by displaying the local lifestyle clients get when they live in Las Vegas. With an audience of over 160,000 followers, Chris has found his niche as the "lifestyle specialist", his new way of prospecting future clients.
In our conversation we talk about, among other things, the primary differences between short form and long form video, and monetization metrics; why understanding what each media platform is best designed for is the key to growth and success; understanding that consumers turn to YouTube for instructional and ‘how-to’ specific content as opposed to general media which often generates more random entertainment content; the value of contracting with a professional strategist for long form video content; consistency.
Chris can be reached by email at [email protected] or on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube at the handle @CB.LasVegas.
Chris Brown is a licensed NV REALTOR® NRED#188080
The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.