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A luxury home’s ambiance, aesthetic, and visual distinctness depends on the quality of its light. But with such a wide variety of lighting fixtures to choose from, what are today’s luxury homebuyers looking for?

Buying a home is a complicated process for everyone involved, including the real estate agents and brokers who already know what to expect. From the perspective of the homebuyer, especially those making their first forays into homeownership, it can be a whirlwind of confusion and frustration. Compound that with the negative economic impacts from COVID-19, and you’ve added uncertainty to the equation.

Laura owned a condo in San Carlos, California, when she accepted a new job in Portland, Oregon. She was given a challenging timeline: relocate and start in six weeks. She believed her condo would sell quickly and for a great price, but the owner of her dream home in Portland wouldn’t accept her contingent offer.

For RE/MAX CEO Adam Contos, every day begins with a choice. Sink or swim, win or lose, blend in or stand out: Mindset is the determining decision we make every day. Contos hosts a weekly motivational podcast, Start With a Win, which brings his lead-by-example attitude to listeners across the globe.

The speed and power of today’s home search can create mismatches that result in frustration, inefficiency, and an overall poor experience. In the above session from Connect Now, Chris Bennett, General Manager of CoreLogic’s Real Estate Solutions Group, describes how CoreLogic is answering this challenge with the latest release of Matrix™ and OneHome™.

In the above session from Connect Now, noted speaker, philosopher, photographer and author Matthew Ferrara of Matthew Ferrara & Company offers his view of the trends shaping the world beyond real estate in the pandemic era, and what that might mean for the future of our industry.

In the above session from Connect Now, Scott Gartner of RoadtoClose™ discusses a simple path for all real estate parties and transactions — one app that puts the process in the palm of everyone’s hand. RoadtoClose™ is visible, secure and accessible, empowering users and giving everyone a view from the driver’s seat.

Mentoring isn’t easy, and it’s certainly not for everyone. If you’re thinking about becoming a mentor, you should have a solid picture of what you’re getting yourself into before committing to working with another agent. Here’s what you should know.

A lot of agents are questioning what’s appropriate to post on social media amid the pandemic and the current protests on racial injustice. Here are a few guidelines on what to post (and what not to).

The Seattle-based, family-owned company helps agents market listings to other agents, and is now producing animated social media posts for multiple networks.