Agent Resources

If you want to win a bidding war, you can’t keep writing offers the same way you always have. In this episode of The Walkthrough, Portland agent Sarita Dua explains the three C’s of winning bidding wars (confidence, communication, and creativity) and how to get clues from the listing agent that will help your buyer win.

You can use LinkedIn for more than real estate networking. This week on The Walkthrough, nationally-recognized LinkedIn coach Judi Fox shares a specific plan to help you connect with local buyers and sellers, become an influencer in your community, and grow your business.

Taking just a week or two off can be a real challenge for many real estate agents. Can you imagine taking a month off? What about TWO months? That's what Geordie Romer and his wife, Allyson, did in 2019. This week on The Walkthrough, Geordie explains how, thanks to careful planning, they spent two months in Spain and their real estate business didn't miss a beat.

Communication is the heart of real estate success. Marketing, sales, negotiation -- it all relies on great communication skills. This week on The Walkthrough, Jesse Zagorsky shares a handful of specific NLP sales techniques that you can use to be a better communicator and make deeper connections with your clients.

HomeLight is partnering with the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) to launch the Black Real Estate Agent Program. The goal is to help new black real estate agents get started in the business and give them the training and resources they need for long-term success. This week on The Walkthrough, two of the program's architects share why and how the program began, what we hope to accomplish, and how you can help.

In July 2019, Black American homeownership rates hit a historic low in the United States, impacting neighborhoods and families, school quality, and generational wealth.  Systemic racism has oppressed Black Americans for decades. We’ve seen the direct effects of racist laws and lending policies in real estate. By blocking Black Americans from buying homes anywhere they […]

There are a lot of different ways to grow your real estate YouTube channel. This week on The Walkthrough, Kristina Smallhorn tells us how she's grown her real estate YouTube channel to more than 70,000 subscribers and the impact it's had on her business.

Cliff Lewis shares his complete time-blocking system -- the system that helped him go from 90 to 147 homes sold in one year while working less and spending more time with his family. If you're ready to run your business and stop letting the business run you, this is a conversation you can't miss.

In part two of our series on ISAs, HomeLight Elite Agent Tony Baroni reveals how his ISA department functions: which leads they handle, how they pass leads back and forth with agents, and how they help his team sell more homes. He also offers advice for any agent wondering if they're ready to hire ISAs.

This week on The Walkthrough, HomeLight Elite Agent Tony Baroni, whose business has nearly tripled (to 300+ transactions in 2020) since he hired his first ISA, shares his process for creating an ISA department inside his real estate team. This is part one of a 2-part series.