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While smiles, courtesy and friendliness are an agent’s calling cards with everyone, let’s be real about the residential real estate business. While it may not be purely a cutthroat calling, there are no nice tries for buyers. Your client either captures the flag with a winning bid for a home or you trudge back to…

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Reef Group and BlackRock Real Estate complete first laboratory building at London’s largest purpose-built life sciences campus  Zenopa

Hilco Real Estate Finance provides first loan in Republic of Ireland  The Intermediary

As President Trump ups the ante on his plan to force Denmark into selling Greenland, the Danes are pushing back with a satirical offer to purchase California.

In a fourth quarter and full-year 2024 earnings call February 11, Zillow Group CEO Jeremy Wacksman and CFO Jeremy Hofmann touted the company’s strong performance, highlighting a 17% year-over-year revenue increase to $554 million in Q4 and a 15% increase to $2.2 billion for the full year. On the downside was a net loss of…

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What’s happening with UK house prices? Latest property market moves explained  MoneyWeek

Inflation continues to rise for the fourth consecutive month, continuing a reversal from its decline throughout most of 2024.  The Consumer Price Index (CPI)—one of the main measures of inflation—rose 0.5% in January, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The all items index rose 3% over the last 12 months,…

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Live at Fagin’s Lair From the 1968 Oscar-Winning Film ‘Oliver!’ for £1.85M  Mansion Global

Earlier today, I spent two hours with the BHHS RW Towne Realty Leadership team, diving into a critical conversation on recruiting and retention—a topic at the heart of building and sustaining high-performing teams. Our discussion reinforced a fundamental truth: great leadership, whether in real estate or the military, is built on strategy, discipline, and adaptability.…

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Real estate business success often results in part from simple actions that accumulate in the “bank” over time. Building goodwill in your local community can be an important part of that equation so be sure to get out there and mingle and be a part of your city or town’s events. Sometimes the best exposure…

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On the same day Redfin announced a new partnership to syndicate Zillow rental listings in multifamily buildings, the company said it would eliminate the positions of approximately 450 employees.

In a flurry of activity, the cloud banking solutions provider appointed Sean Desmond as CEO while granting a big shareholder, HMI Capital Management, a seat on its expanded board of directors.

London's FTSE 100 hovers near record high on real estate boost  Global Banking And Finance Review

Bert Whalen was ordered to serve over three years in prison for his role in a scheme to sell hundreds of dilapidated homes to rookie investors, working at times with a former host of Fox & Friends.

InteRo Property Development closes EUR 16 million bond issuance with CVI, a leader in the private debt market in Central Europe  Business Review

London's FTSE 100 Stays Strong Thanks To Real Estate Gains  Finimize

Foreign Buyers Sour On US Real Estate–Sales To Non-US Buyers Plummet By 36% In Just One Year  Yahoo Finance

Foreign Buyers Sour On US Real Estate–Sales To Non-US Buyers Plummet By 36% In Just One Year  Benzinga

Anxiety rattles the Toronto-area real estate market  The Globe and Mail

U.S. Mega Distribution Centers Leasing Activity Grew in 2024  The World Property Journal