The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV) is a 100-year-old organization hosting one of Canada’s largest databases of real estate listings. Now REBGV members can add IDX to their WordPress website using Realtyna’s Organic RETS...
Welcome Realtyna Readers. Today’s blog post is written by Ashley Lipman from The Blog Frog and The Urban Avenue. Ashley is an award-winning writer who discovered her passion in providing creative solutions for building brands online....
Setting career goals in real estate takes time and reflection. You need to step back, imagine your future in a way that you can summarize in one to two sentences. Then, you must translate this...
Days on market provides a measure of the age of a real estate listing. The statistic is calculated as the number of days a listing is active before an offer is accepted or the listing...
Your first few months as a real estate agent are perilous. You expend great money and effort to establish yourself with few guarantees of income. Traversing this period requires strategy, persistence, and a bit of...
Tech savvy real estate agents seem to have the upper hand these days. They have so many more resources to generate leads using technology. But what about those agents overwhelmed with it all? Much to...
Yes, you can reschedule your real estate licensing exam, though the rules and fees vary widely by state. In New York, you can reschedule with no penalty up to 6 days in advance of the...
Have you ever thought about how price tags are put on houses? Well, we most certainly have, so here are the major factors that influence home value. Sharing is caring, they say. LOCATION This one is...
Broker Reciprocity is the principle of cooperation that backs all Internet Data Exchange (IDX) programs. Under Broker Reciprocity, participating brokers are granted access to the listings of all other participating brokers in exchange for granting...
CRT Labs is the National Association of Realtors’ research group for real estate technology. The group produces reports on how emerging technologies may affect real estate agents and brokers, and works to develop solutions when...
You hear a lot about needing certain MLS integration methods, but how do they actually help you generate leads? Organic MLS Integration, unique to Realtyna, gives leads the speed, accuracy, and features they want while...
With the right IDX software you can automatically send your IDX listings to Facebook dynamic ads, allowing you to create a catalogue of properties that appear in the Facebook and Instagram feeds of any leads...
CREA or the Canadian Real Estate Association is Canada’s trade association for real estate. Consisting of more than 100,000 brokers and agents, CREA maintains industry ethical standards, provides technology products to further the real estate...
Looking for alternatives to LoopNet or CoStar? With Realtyna’s WPL Pro you can host your own commercial listings and build a real estate site that outranks the portals in your local market. Follow the steps...
FTP or File Transfer Protocol is a method for moving files between two computers. Once popular among IDX real estate websites, FTP has taken a niche role since the emergence of faster, more dynamic technologies...
In some communities, a multilingual real estate site is all but mandatory. In others, it may help you attract international investors. Whatever your scenario, a multilingual real estate site can help you expand your client...
It can take 4 to 6 months to become a real estate agent, depending on your state’s licensing requirements and when you take the real estate exam. Rarely does it take more than a year,...
If you’re a real estate broker or dealer looking for some cool ways to expand your pool of real estate leads, then don’t miss out on reading this article down below. It just happens to...
The real estate market works according to the laws of supply and demand. When supply is greater than demand, prices fall. When demand is greater than supply, prices rise. In this way, the real estate...
Real estate agents make money by selling marketing, legal, negotiation, and other services to those involved in a real estate transaction. Payment for these services is typically collected through a commission, a fee charged to...
FSBO or ‘For Sale By Owner’ is when a property owner attempts to sell a home without hiring real agent or broker. Sellers may consider FSBO to avoid paying a commission on the sale or...
An IDX website is a website that displays listings from an MLS by way of an Internet Data Exchange or IDX. Typically maintained by a real estate agent, an IDX website is designed to help...
With the help of CSV and/or XML feeds, you can generate listings from property portal giants like Zillow or Trulia onto your WPL real estate website. Integrating these portal listings can be a little complicated,...
This fall parts of Illinois and Iowa will await the release they have all been waiting for. I am not talking about a movie, I am talking about the RMLS Alliance. The RMLS Alliance is...
[realtyna_blog_notice] A RETS feed is a powerful data source for an IDX website. It can boost the SEO content on your site and help your page ranking. It also can help you avoid monthly IDX provider...
If you are a real estate agent, web marketing is part of your job. This is just a fact of the modern world. To succeed in this role, you need to understand the Internet and how it...
Overview If you fail the real estate licensing exam, you can take it again usually within a few days. But you’ll need to pay an additional exam fee and some states limit the number of attempts...
The National Association of REALTORS (NAR) is North America’s largest trade association for real estate. Comprising of more than 1 million members, NAR provides education and professional resources to agents, establishes ethical standards, and lobby’s...
The difference between agent, broker, and REALTOR is a matter of experience and association. An agent is anyone with a real estate license. A broker usually has education beyond the agent level. A REALTOR is...
Access to the MLS generally costs between $20 and $50 a month, depending on the MLS. This comes on top of any other fees you must pay as a member of the local real estate...
Engaging in the community around you can have a significant impact on your business and your trustworthiness. It provides you with leads, referrals and priceless first-hand knowledge in your market. We have already discussed ways...
11 personality traits seen in top agents One of the great things about real estate is the flexibility. Because it doesn’t require super advanced degrees, the industry is virtually open to everyone. Still, there are some...
It seems like all the lead generating advice for real estate agents out there is geared towards 20-30 somethings, full of youthful, tech savvy energy. This is shockingly silly given that a vast percentage of...
An AVM or automated valuation model is a computer program that uses mathematical modeling and a database of existing homes to generate property appraisals. AVMs produce the Zestimate and other home value estimations seen on...
Add IDX to your Bridge Theme for a robust real estate site you’ll love. There’s a reason developers turn again and again to Bridge Theme. It’s one of the most powerful WordPress themes available. With flexible...
Real estate professionals all over the world should have options when it comes to their website. Perhaps you have a business that would benefit from the option of different membership packages for your digital services....
Attract more real estate leads online and boost your business with a TREND IDX site with Realtyna. Each year more and more homebuyers turn to the Internet to look for homes. And seemingly each year there...
As you know, building a state of the art real estate website will propel you ahead of the competition. One essential feature to include to make this vision a reality is an Advanced Search Portal...
Working in real estate is a fast-paced, exciting lifestyle. But for the vast majority of us, it is far from luxurious. There are real challenges to confront day to day. In this article, we’ll discuss...
As of July 2018, the real estate industry is maintaining healthy job growth about on par with the national average. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment for real estate agents and brokers is...