Intense competition makes intelligent state of the art real estate office management the key not only to success but to survival. The Real Estate Brokerage Council produced the first edition of Real Estate Office Management for brokers' classes taught by the Realtor's National Marketing Institute where it is still required reading. Highlights of this book include: * Leadership, planning, organizing and communicating. * Recruiting, agency types, and training. * Retaining, motivating, and terminating employees. * Record keeping and financial systems. * Marketing and utilizing statistical records. * Analyzing Real Estate growth patterns. * Mergers and acquisitions.

REAL ESTATE OFFICE MANAGEMENT: A GUIDE TO SUCCESS takes a concise look at contemporary real estate office management covering the essential day-to-day knowledge needed to successfully operate the office.+ It exclusively focuses on the highly essential operational issues that a person would encounter from the initial planning stages through the eventual sale of the office.+ The content uses numerous real world examples, from the author's experience, to demonstrate how to best handle making critical decisions.

Intense competition makes intelligent state of the art real estate office management the key not only to success but to survival. The Real Estate Brokerage Council produced the first edition of Real Estate Office Management for brokers' classes taught by the Realtor's National Marketing Institute where it is still required reading. & Highlights of this book include: * Leadership, planning, organizing and communicating. * Recruiting, agency types, and training. * Retaining, motivating, and terminating employees. * Record keeping and financial systems. * Marketing and utilizing statistical records. * Analyzing Real Estate growth patterns. * Mergers and acquisitions.

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

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

With its emphasis on the nuts-and-bolts of starting and operating a broker brokerage, this new edition supplies all the information agents and brokers need, includes checklists, forms and step-by-step explanations that guide the reader through must-know topics.