

RealTrending
RealTrends
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.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Aug 30, 2021 • 31min
RealTrending: Peerage’s real estate network accelerates growth
Today’s RealTrending features an interview with Gavin Swartzman, president and CEO of Peerage Realty Partners. Swatzman talks about recent acquisitions, their business model and some out-of-the-box ancillary services. Peerage has been slowly acquiring brokerage firms in many high end and luxury markets to bring into their “real estate network.” Swartzman explains his value prop in this educational podcast.

Aug 26, 2021 • 34min
RealTrending: CoreLogic’s Pete Carroll on housing shortage solutions
Today’s RealTrending features an exclusive interview with Pete Carroll, CoreLogic’s Executive of Public Policy and Industry Relations. Carroll talks about the housing shortage, who it impacts most, issues plaguing today’s real estate industry, and some possible solutions.

Aug 23, 2021 • 16min
RealTrending ep. 107: COVID-19, earnings, team study
In this edition of RealTrending, Steve Murray, senior advisor to RealTrends, explains the impact of a resurgence of COVID-19 on real estate, offers an analysis of recent earnings calls and talks about a new real estate team study launching soon.

Aug 16, 2021 • 31min
RealTrending: Redfin’s Glenn Kelman on turning all buyers into cash buyers
Today’s RealTrending features an interview with Glenn Kelman, president and CEO of Redfin. Kelman addresses those who question his business model, talks next steps for the company and where he sees opportunity for brokerage leaders in the next year.

Aug 9, 2021 • 11min
RealTrending ep. 106: The impact of iBuyers, institutional investors, mom-and-pops
In this edition of RealTrending, Steve Murray, senior advisor to RealTrends, explains the impact of iBuyers, institutional investors and mom-and-pop investors on the real estate market. He also discusses some opportunities for serving the senior market and how to benchmark your company by reading earnings reports.

Aug 2, 2021 • 30min
RealTrending: RE/MAX President Nick Bailey on leaning into the digital transformation
Today’s RealTrending features an interview with Nick Bailey, president of RE/MAX LLC. Bailey talks about the company’s evolving growth strategies, how they hope to capitalize on machine learning and today’s digital transformation and shares some industry market trends.

Jul 26, 2021 • 9min
RealTrending ep. 105: Shift in how investors value brokerage firms
In this edition of RealTrending, Steve Murray, senior advisor to RealTrends, shares his thoughts the shifting market, the only real key to real estate success and the shift in how investors are valuing brokerage firms.

Jul 19, 2021 • 31min
Florida Realtors’ leaders on advocating for affordable housing
Today’s RealTrending podcast features three, powerful real estate leaders. Margy Grant, CEO of Florida Realtors, Christina Pappas, president-elect of Florida Realtors and vice president of the Keyes Company, Miami, and Juana Watkins, Florida Realtors General Counsel. Florida Realtors is backing a move that will guarantee that money flowing into the state’s affordable housing trust funds will be used exclusively for affordable housing. It could serve as a model for other states.

Jul 12, 2021 • 13min
RealTrending ep. 104: Expanding consumer choices impact real estate brokerage
In this edition of RealTrending, Steve Murray, senior advisor to RealTrends, shares his thoughts on the way artificial intelligence is impacting recruiting, how consumer choices are changing real estate brokerage competition and observations from brokerage leaders on the market.

Jul 8, 2021 • 17min
RealTrending: Mortgage industry trends with Vince Parlove of United Wholesale Mortgage
With an emphasis on making the transaction easy, Vince Parlove, director of wholesale development for United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), talks about their findamortgagebroker.com service and offers some interesting insight into mortgage industry trends and the impact on the housing market.


