real estate agents

also referred to as: real estate agent

10 statements across 8 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jun 29, 2016 by Max Coursey · across every show →

Everything said about real estate agents, oldest first

Jun 29, 2016
Assertion Partly supported
The average US real estate agent sells four homes per year
“The average real estate agent in this country sells four homes a year.”
Max Coursey Jun 29, 2016 ▶ 6:53 EP 340: TigerProp Eliminates Real Estate Broker Fee, Did $800k in 2015 with Max Coursey
Jul 12, 2016 neutral
Insight
Newman: Real estate agents decide marketing strategies without their brokerages
“Real estate agents, they really do their own marketing strategies themselves. They don't normally include the brokerage in their decisions.”
Amanda Newman Jul 12, 2016 ▶ 14:02 EP 353: $880k '15 Real Estate Agents Paid Her - For What? With Amanda Newman at ParkBench
Nov 26, 2016 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Three-quarters of the 2 million US real estate agents are part-time
“There's two million agents out there, and three out of four of them are in some sort of part-time capacity.”
Tommy Sowers Nov 26, 2016 ▶ 10:30 EP 490: GoldenKey $3.4M Raised, 1000 Units Sold By Agents Using New Technology with CEO Tommy Sowers
May 24, 2017 negative
Insight
Graziosi: Sourcing cheap deals through real estate agents does not work
“If you go after your buddy or a friend or someone, you know, who's a real estate agent and say, send me cheap deals, you're kind of screwed because everybody's doing that. So it's really about finding off market deals.”
Dean Graziosi May 24, 2017 ▶ 9:39 669: How to Do First Real Estate Deal at 18 Years Old, Now $400k/mo In Rental Income with Best Seller Dean Graziosi
Dec 16, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ganapathy: Move Easy grew from 30 to 22,000 real estate agents
“So we I think in 2016, we had about, end of 2016, we had about 30 real estate agents on our platform. Today we are up to about 22,000 and we are, as and when we roll them out, those numbers just keep increasing pretty rapidly.”
Venkatesh Ganapathy Dec 16, 2019 ▶ 5:45 1605 How He Gets Movers, Trash Companies, Internet Providers To Pay Him Referral Fees on 13,000+ New Home Owners
Dec 16, 2019
Disclosure
Move Easy pitches homebuyers within 24 hours of signing under agent branding
“They could potentially, the reason they are not able to do that, and the reason we are able to get in front of the customer before anyone else, is imagine you sign a contract today, within 24 hours, our system will automatically invite the customer there, and …”
Venkatesh Ganapathy Dec 16, 2019 ▶ 6:38 1605 How He Gets Movers, Trash Companies, Internet Providers To Pay Him Referral Fees on 13,000+ New Home Owners
Mar 5, 2021
Assertion Supported
Mackin: Top 10% of US real estate agents sell 41% of homes
“The top 10% of real estate agents sell, 41% of all homes sold in the US.”
Jimmy Mackin Mar 5, 2021 ▶ 4:23 Real Estate Tool Loses $3.6m During COVID, Now Recovered to $10m Run Rate
Mar 5, 2021 positive
Disclosure
Mackin: Curaytor targets top-tier enterprise agents, ignoring bottom 90%
“We're not interested in working with the bottom 90%, the part-timers, the ones that sell two or three homes a year. We want to work with sort of the entrepreneurs who actually have a business, who are trying to grow, who need the support and resources to make …”
Jimmy Mackin Mar 5, 2021 ▶ 4:38 Real Estate Tool Loses $3.6m During COVID, Now Recovered to $10m Run Rate
Feb 22, 2022
Insight
Ashokan: Rapid tech-enabled training is essential to stop real estate agent dropouts
“So the key is to provide technology that helps them with education and training quickly. So that they can get, get up to speed and start selling quickly.”
Biju Ashokan Feb 22, 2022 ▶ 2:23 The Next Redfin? Real Estate Broker SaaS hits $2.4m Revenue, $50m Valuation
Jan 19, 2023 negative
Insight
Bauer: Selling software directly to real estate agents resembles high-churn B2C
“It looks, it masquerades as business because these are agents and they're doing business, but in reality, they behave like a consumer, which means the CAC is really high, the support burden is really high, and they churn like crazy.”
York Bauer Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 9:40 $50m Revenue Selling Salesforce for Real Estate Brokerages, Beauty of Multi Year Deals with Accelerators
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