Setting Essential Business Goals in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage
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Setting Essential Business Goals in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage

In this video on iTunes you can learn about the important and critical business goals in commercial real estate brokerage.  Watch the numbers in your activities and local property zone.  Having spent a good number of years in the brokerage ‘game’, these are the numbers that I ‘live by’ personally.   I hope they help you with…

Commercial Real Estate Brokerage – The Secrets of Super Team Structures
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Commercial Real Estate Brokerage – The Secrets of Super Team Structures

In your commercial real estate brokerage business, you will find that there is a definite advantage to be gained in pairing up some of the ‘front-line’ people within your greater sales and leasing team.  That pairing process can help them work specific locations, suburbs, and streets, with the property types, and service specialities.  I call…

Commercial Real Estate Transactions – Ways of Resolving Difficulties in Negotiations

Commercial Real Estate Transactions – Ways of Resolving Difficulties in Negotiations

The longer that you work in commercial real estate brokerage, you will encounter a good variety of pressure and difficulty when it comes to listings, negotiations, transactions, and deal momentum.  A fact-finding process should apply to all client discussions, listings, negotiations, and transaction documentation. (NB – you can get plenty of negotiation tips in our…

Easy Ways to Establishing a VIP Client Group
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Easy Ways to Establishing a VIP Client Group

In commercial real estate brokerage, you should build a VIP group of people within your database. You can serve that group specifically and directly with tuned property information of relevance. Having worked with many different types of clients over the years, I have seen some strange situations and have worked through some difficult client challenges….

How to Take Advantage of a Competitive Analysis in Real Estate

How to Take Advantage of a Competitive Analysis in Real Estate

In commercial real estate brokerage, today, the activities of your competitors are indicators that you cannot and should not ignore.  Through tracking those people and their activities you will see their weaknesses and their strengths; through those things you can shift your activities for better results.  Learn from the best and the worst of your…

Key Performance Parameters to Follow in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Sales

Key Performance Parameters to Follow in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Sales

When you are working as a broker or agent in commercial real estate sales, it pays to set some clear and defined key performance indicators that you can personally relate to and see your market share growth and commission escalation.  There are plenty of competitors in the property market all chasing the same new business….

How to Evaluate a Supermarket in a Retail Shopping Center Performance Review

How to Evaluate a Supermarket in a Retail Shopping Center Performance Review

A supermarket in a retail shopping centre is generally an anchor tenant in a particular location, and perhaps one of a few anchor tenants of similar type, all seeking to attract customers to the property. (NB – you can get our free commercial and retail property training here)   A supermarket is therefore an important…

Cross Selling Examples in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage

Cross Selling Examples in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage

As you speak to new people in commercial real estate today, be prepared to talk about the various opportunities and changes in the local area, making sure that your ideas spread across the different disciplines in the industry. Most particularly do that with sales, leasing, property management, project leasing, and project development. You are the…

Overcoming Stress and Downturns in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage

Overcoming Stress and Downturns in Commercial Real Estate Brokerage

The commercial property industry is just like any other sales related career. You can be swamped and stressed by the pressures of performance and opportunity. Without a plan of attack and a consistent strategy towards new business development, it is very likely that you will struggle, and that can only lead to a downturn in…