
RealTrending
The RealTrending podcast features conversations with the brightest minds in real estate. Every Monday, brokerage leaders, top agents, team leaders, and industry experts join us to share their secrets to success, trends, and the lessons they’ve learned. Hosted by Tracey Velt and produced by the HousingWire Content Studio.
Latest episodes

Nov 29, 2021 • 23min
Building more diversity and inclusion into your brokerage firm
Today’s RealTrending features an interview with Tommie Wehrle, co-chair of the LGBTQ+ REALPRIDE Realogy Employees Relations Group, Coldwell Banker Realty instructor and a broker-associate at Coldwell Banker Realty in Milford, Connecticut. Wehrle, also a member of the LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance, offers advice on how to build diversity and inclusion into your brokerage firm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 23, 2021 • 19min
Part 2: Trends in real estate team valuations
Today’s RealTrending podcast features Steve Murray, senior advisor to RealTrends and Tracey Velt, editorial director of RealTrends discussing the trends in real estate team valuations and the results of the 2021 RealTrends Team Profitability Study. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 22, 2021 • 36min
Crye-Leike’s Steve Brown on boosting core service capture rates
Today’s RealTrending features an interview with Steve Brown, president of residential sales for Crye-Leike Real Estate and chairman of the board for The Realty Alliance, a network of North American real estate firms. Brown talks about boosting core service capture rates, industry trends and the new changes the National Association of Realtors is making to the MLS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 17, 2021 • 36min
Comparing real estate team and brokerage profitability
Today’s RealTrending features Steve Murray, senior advisor to RealTrends and Tracey Velt, editorial director of RealTrends discussing the profitability of real estate teams compared to the profitability of real estate brokerages, based on the results of the 2021 RealTrends Team Profitability Study. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 15, 2021 • 14min
What to learn from China’s real estate debacle
In this edition of RealTrending, Steve Murray, senior advisor to RealTrends, talks about possible parallels between the China real estate crisis and possible implications of proposed government regulations, innovative financing services and people challenges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 8, 2021 • 30min
Sherry Chris on what real estate brokers must do to combat margin compression
Today’s RealTrending features an interview with Sherry Chris, president and CEO of Realogy Expansion Brands, which includes ERA Real Estate and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate. She outlines what she thinks brokers can do to combat margin compression and how to market proof their businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nov 1, 2021 • 13min
Recruiting productive agents gets harder as market segments
In this edition of RealTrending, Steve Murray, senior advisor to RealTrends, talks about the competition for productive agents, brokerage culture and offers and update on the market for mergers and valuations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 25, 2021 • 41min
Evolution of real estate brokerage core services
Today’s RealTrending features an interview with Chris Kelly, president and CEO of Ebby Halliday Companies, part of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices of America in Texas and Christian Wallace, head of real estate for Better, based in New York. These leaders were featured on a panel at HousingWire Annual in Frisco, Texas, discussing the importance of core services in real estate brokerage today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 18, 2021 • 15min
There’s a new brokerage model emerging
In this edition of RealTrending, Steve Murray, senior advisor to RealTrends, talks about a new brokerage model emerging, the DOJ and FTC investigations and the role of institutional investors and iBuyers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 11, 2021 • 28min
Knock’s Sean Black talks about the transaction revolution
Today’s RealTrending features an interview with Sean Black, CEO and founder of Knock.com, a company that offers cash-backed buying and consumer financing to offer consumers options when buying and selling a home. Black discusses his partnerships with brokers, their desire to help consumers and opines on the transaction revolution as the next phase of disruption in the real estate industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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