In commercial real estate brokerage, the clients that we serve will have concerns and questions relative to their property activity and choices of marketing. As an initial strategy when working with all clients, make a priority to understand their challenges, and their questions. You will need to address both of these issues in your proposal…
In commercial real estate brokerage, every agent or broker should be prospecting for sales leads every day. The process should be part of the job specification for agents and brokers. Whilst the prospecting requirement sounds obvious, it is quite clear that many agents and brokers will overlook the requirements for prospecting on a regular basis. …
The prospecting process in commercial real estate is quite special. That is because the cycle of business can be quite lengthy, or slow to occur. It can be a long time and some years between property purchases or lease transactions. This says that you need to connect with the right people and then stay in…
In commercial real estate agency, you can get significant leverage from your lists of information. A good commercial real estate agent will have researched significant lists that will help feed them the right contact or property detail within the correct property market segments. So the lists that you create will offer significant opportunity. It is…
So many agents struggle with the systems behind finding new clients in commercial real estate. It’s a very common problem that needs to be understood. There are two alternatives to prospecting and networking in the industry as an agent. Consider these: You can find new people to talk to on a daily basis and build…
When you list a commercial property for sale or lease, it will be on the basis of an ‘open listing’ or an ‘exclusive listing’. There are some significant differences in the way that you handle the two listing types. Try this for the comparison: An ‘open listing’ is one that is listed with quite a…
In commercial real estate agency the property market will change frequently during the year for all types of reasons including the economy, seasonal holidays, business sentiment, and changes in government. For some agents this can create a commission slump or a drop in listings. The only ways you can get through this with minimal discomfort…
In commercial real estate you can make a lot of commissions working with property sellers. This is the ‘traditional way’ of working with clients and marketing property. If you work with good clients and quality listings then it is very hard not to succeed in the industry; that being said you must firstly attract the…
Have you ever asked yourself why top agents get more of the commercial real estate business? In your property market you would know some agents that are significantly more successful at attracting the quality listings and converting the sales and the leases. It is not so much the ‘agency’ that you should look at with…
In commercial real estate agency today your cold calling systems need to be of the best quality and substance. The people that you call can soon sense a less than confident salesperson that has not prepared for the process. Top agents make cold calls all the time. There is a direct correlation between the success…
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