Real Estate Brokerage A Management Guide

Provide your students with the tools they need to establish and manage a successful real estate brokerage with this practical business guide. Real Estate Brokerage: A Management Guide will help your students become more effective managers, leaders and communicators in today's constantly changing business climate. Highlights include: * New Web Links Appendix encourages students to further explore key topics. * Text based on the established POSDC ("Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, and Controlling") Management Model. * How to approach gives students practice with policy manuals, marketing materials, forms, and loan proposals. * Free Instructor Resource Guide includes lecture outlines, classroom resources, chapter quizzes, and final exams. Real Estate Brokerage: A Management Guide Workbook, 6th Ed. Textbook with workbook edition

Provide your students with the tools they need to establish and manage a successful real estate brokerage with this practical business guide. "Real Estate Brokerage: A Management Guide" will help your students become more effective managers, leaders and communicators in today's constantly changing business climate. Highlights include: * New Web Links Appendix encourages students to further explore key topics. * Text based on the established "POSDC" ("Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, and Controlling") "Management Model." * How to approach gives students practice with policy manuals, marketing materials, forms, and loan proposals. * Free Instructor Resource Guide includes lecture outlines, classroom resources, chapter quizzes, and final exams. "Real Estate Brokerage: A Management Guide Workbook," 6th Ed. Textbook with workbook edition

New edition of a text on running a real estate brokerage firm. The emphasis is on running the business itself rather than on good selling techniques. Topics include license and agency law, organization and management, ethics and policy, listing management, market operations, real estate finance and appraisal, compensating the sales force, and financial control. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Praise for Realtor? Magazine's BROKER to BROKER "By providing best practice management tips with thought-provokingideas, Broker to Broker offers invaluable guidance on virtuallyevery aspect of our dynamic industry. The book's easy-to-readformat, with in-depth supporting material available online, is aninnovative approach to helping the country's brokers and managersfind effective solutions to today's challenges." --Ron Peltier, President and CEO, HomeServices of America, Inc.,Minneapolis, Minnesota "This compilation of the latest Realtor? Magazine articles on realestate brokerage management could be of help to brokers andmanagers looking for practical ideas to boost their operations. Thebook quotes extensively from veteran brokers and managers who aretrying new ways to build sales and tackle problems. Within thebook's range of articles could be helpful ideas for you." --J. Lennox Scott, Chairman and CEO, John L. Scott Real Estate,Seattle, Washington "The editors did their homework. The pace of change in our businessis a constant challenge. Even if you don't want to lead the chargein industry change, brokers would do well to study the innovativeconcepts (such as the employee-agent model) illustrated here. Thesection on operations is particularly useful for brokers of amulti-office/multi-region operation." --Steve Brown, ABR?, CRB, Vice President and General Manager,Crye-Leike, Realtors?, Memphis, Tennessee "The editors of Realtor? Magazine do a fantastic job of keepingRealtors? on top of all real estate concerns. No issue is moretimely or essential to building good business than brokeragepractices." --Blanche Evans, Publisher, Agent News, and Editor, Realty Times,Dallas, Texas

Designed to meet the requirements of a real estate brokerage course, this new book concentrates on successful and innovative recruiting and retention strategies - the main focus of any viable real estate enterprise. As an increasing number of salespersons want more of the commission and want more services provided by the brokerage firm, Hamilton addresses the issue of survival for the real estate brokerage. Real-life case studies, group discussions and analysis applications throughout help equip users establish and manage a successful real estate brokerage.

An invaluable guide for any one considering owning and/or operating a real estate brokerage business, this timely, well-written book focuses on the management and organizational aspects of the real estate brokerage business, showing how to achieve success through careful planning, organization, control, and financial empowerment. Covers all aspects of operating the business and offers illustrative case studies tp provide specific examples of the principles covered. Examines all significant contracts and forms, and uses numerous exhibits, tables, and diagrams throughout to clarify important points. Improves overall clarity and logical progression of material, addresses the rapidly growing state and Federal disclosure requirements, and adds coverage on many new topics, including hazardous substance disclosures, ethics, truth in advertising, trust accounts, and the latest changes in office technology, including the Internet.