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Nadel’s critique of commission structures gets wider distribution

Mark Nadel‘s ground-breaking paper on traditional real estate commission models has been published in an abbreviated form in the Cornell Real Estate Review. Nota bene: I embedded the wrong link for the Cornell version of the paper. It’s fixed now. Technorati Tags: compensation for buyer representation, disintermediation, real estate, real estate marketing

Defining the Divorced Commission: A short-hand term for understanding alternative real estate compensation models . . .

I just spent a very informative hour on the phone with Jeff Brown, and I want to summarize what I took away from our conversation. First, Jeff has a very different understanding of the term “co-broke” compared to the way it is used in Arizona. When we went to essentially 100% buyer-brokerage for residential real […]

Contra Freakonmetrics: The Big Picture in real estate negotiations . . .

Taking on Mark Nadel’s white paper on real estate commissions, Kevin Boer at Three Oceans Real Estate points out that there is more at stake than any one particular negotiation: Successful agents, however, know that a solid business is built on long-term relationships with satisfied clients. If a past client indeed thought his Realtor had […]

When real estate brokers face a substantial cost for head-count, only the most profitable heads will survive unsevered . . .

Mark Nadel’s white paper on real estate commissions is very thoroughgoing, rich in detail and a rational understanding of human motivation — without slipping over to the hyperbole that afflicts much criticism of the residential real estate industry. But Nadel is an outsider, so, while his diagnosis of what ails our business is spot on, […]

Pinocchio made flesh: Crafting a real business from the splintered ruins of the real estate industry . . .

I had email late last night night from Mark Nadel, author of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center white paper on real estate commissions that has been cited lately by the Freakonomics blog and by weblogs all over the RE.net: Greg, I wish I had discovered your BloodhoundRealty blog earlier. If so, I would have referenced you […]