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Running a real estate brokerage or team is a 24/7 business. There’s so much going on: transactions, agent questions, legal requirements, mortgage, title and other vendor relationships, technology changes, upgrades and challenges, and the constant need to put out fires.

“They call me Winz. ”Matt Winzenreid is one of those people who puts you at ease immediately. He has a disarming way about him, even though he runs a high performing real estate team. Matt makes you comfortable because he is comfortable. He’s self-assured. Secure in his belief that he’s doing exactly what he was meant to do.

As a 25-year veteran in the Boston residential real estate business, I have experienced remarkable changes firsthand. For some sectors of the industry, the technological advances we have witnessed in the past three months outpace changes that have occurred over the last three years.

For the luxury buyer, investing in a second property is an act of pure wish fulfillment. A secondary home is about more than just necessity, it’s about the opportunity to live one’s best life — which is why being an agent in a second-home market is such a pleasure.

This was not how most REALM Community Forum calls begin. “I don’t mean to be a downer,” said San Francisco Area Compass Agent Jim Walberg, “but we need to talk about something. Today we found out that we lost a well-respected member of our local real estate community to suicide. Completely out of the blue.

How many real estate agents does it take to change a light bulb? Six. But we’ll accept four!Alright, so that’s a bad joke! Changing a light bulb is simple enough to do with just one person, but a real estate transaction is much, much more complex.