What You Should Look For In a Real Estate Theme
What makes a good real estate WordPress theme? Most would say design and I agree to a point. But to me the true test of any WordPress theme is its backend ease of use, support and extensibility. This post is geared towards WordPress but the guide can be applied to any template whether it be Drupal, Joomla, or any other CMS.
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WordPress Real Estate Listings Syndicator Plugin
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Now brokers, agents, landlords, management companies will have the ability to syndicate real estate listings to aggregators such as Zillow, Trulia, HotPads, Trovit, and others from your WordPress website.
For a long time I have been on the search for a real estate plugin for WordPress that could feed aggregators such as Zillow, Trulia, RentHop, Postlets, and others so I could syndicate my listings without using a third-party service or manually adding every listings to each site.
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Choosing the Right Brokerage Firm
The life of a real estate agent can be extremely appealing. It's freedom with unlimited earning potential, and in NYC, a few deals can go a long way. Sometimes, it seems that money falls from the sky and into your lap. You meet exciting people, celebrities, and titans of industry. One day you tour a $30,000 West Village triplex rental, the other your showing a $5,000,000 million dollar Townhouse.
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Zillow To Phase Out Rental Pro/RentJuice for Brokers
Zillow announced today that they will be phasing out operations of it's standalone product Zillow Rental Pro also known as RentJuice. They will now focus on supporting landlords and property managers.
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NYC Real Estate Rental Apps
These days it takes more than just posting your listing on your company website and waiting for clients to call you (Duh). Gone are also the days when you could just wait till your MX feeds all the listing aggregators out there. Now you have to be mobile ready because waiting for feeds means you’re losing time and money. Thankfully there are some rental apps available now that can put you ahead of the pack. Some are free and some are not and though none of them are perfect they will boost lead generation.
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Brokerages & Agents Stats
NYC is full of agents with the concentration of activity in Manhattan & Brooklyn. I wanted to know where they mostly are in relation to the city itself, the report while as inclusive as possible (See About the Stats at the bottom of the report) I've only listed the top 5 in each category, (See categories below) Combing through 180+ brokerages the data
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Beginner Real Estate Forms For Free
Sometimes you just need a clean copy of a lease or rider. Believe it or not, not every RE company has all these forms ready for agents or if they do it's an old copy that can't be read or used.
Maybe you're a new company starting out and need to get the basics.
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NYC Real Estate Brokerage Directory
How many brokerages are in NYC? Plenty! Below is a list of active brokerages serving mainly Manhattan but also the outer boroughs recommended you read.
If you want a comprehensive list detailing agent count, # of offices, locations, agents per office, CMS, Listing focus, and other information. Join my newsletter and you’ll get a sneak peek to the complete directory and other data complied.
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Why Every Agent Should Be Using Rapportive
Rapportive shows you everything about your contacts right inside…
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