Management of a Real Estate Brokerage
Real Estate isn't all marketing. A real estate brokerage business has diverse management concerns. Beginning with a decision whether to franchise or not, you must then get to setting up systems for staffing, document control, information sharing, sales management, insurance and more.
The Introduction to Your Real Estate Office Policy Manual
Your real estate office policy manual needs to begin with an introduction section. This is a short section, but important. It needs to explain what this document is, its purpose, and how changes to the document will be implemented.
Your real estate office policy manual needs to begin with an introduction section. This is a short section, but important. It needs to explain what this document is, its purpose, and how changes to the document will be implemented.
The Management Considerations for a Real Estate Brokerage Office
Setting up a real estate brokerage is more than marketing for the business and your sellers. Systems for staffing, sales management, purchasing, document control, insurance and more are required. Go from the basics to the advanced with resources presented here.
Setting up a real estate brokerage is more than marketing for the business and your sellers. Systems for staffing, sales management, purchasing, document control, insurance and more are required. Go from the basics to the advanced with resources presented here.
The CreateAPlan® Brokerage Business Planning System
If you're about to start your own real estate brokerage or you're operating one already, do you know your expenses and have you done accurate revenue and budget forecasting and planning? This online system helps a broker or owner to do just that.
If you're about to start your own real estate brokerage or you're operating one already, do you know your expenses and have you done accurate revenue and budget forecasting and planning? This online system helps a broker or owner to do just that.
As a New Independent Broker Do You Need an Office Location?
Just got your real estate broker's license and about to do your own thing? Do you really need a physical office location, particularly if you don't plan on sponsoring agents? Here we'll profile some of the considerations that will influence this decision.
Just got your real estate broker's license and about to do your own thing? Do you really need a physical office location, particularly if you don't plan on sponsoring agents? Here we'll profile some of the considerations that will influence this decision.
Real Estate Brokerage Business Plan - 1.0 Executive Summary
Here's a free and complete sample real estate brokerage office business plan.
Here's a free and complete sample real estate brokerage office business plan.
Field Guide to Real Estate Office Policy Manuals from NAR
Get a jump start on the many policy manuals that a good real estate brokerage needs. You can't expect your agents and employees to know how to do their jobs without guidelines. Some of these are also required by law.
Get a jump start on the many policy manuals that a good real estate brokerage needs. You can't expect your agents and employees to know how to do their jobs without guidelines. Some of these are also required by law.
Office Floor Plan Examples
Here's some generic office floor plan drawings that might help you to plan your real estate brokerage layout.
Here's some generic office floor plan drawings that might help you to plan your real estate brokerage layout.
Strategic Business Planning: A Wild Ride
Most of us wouldn't start out on a driving vacation without a basic plan of where we were heading, where we might be at the end of each day and what we wanted to spend.[p] So it's amazing that some will attempt to operate a real estate brokerage without a structured business plan. It's not easy, but it's important.
Most of us wouldn't start out on a driving vacation without a basic plan of where we were heading, where we might be at the end of each day and what we wanted to spend.[p] So it's amazing that some will attempt to operate a real estate brokerage without a structured business plan. It's not easy, but it's important.