One important metric you need to know right now for your real estate business is the local transaction volume % year over year. This will help you make better decisions in your business. Are you outperforming the market, or are you below the market stats? If your market is down 22%, but your income is down 50%, then this shows you that you are underperforming the market and there is room to grow. If you’re underperforming the market, it’s on you, which is a great thing to know.
One of the most powerful questions I heard in a session with Sharran Srivatsaa was this: ‘Did your business grow, or did the market grow?’ During the pandemic, many agents thought their business grew when, in actuality, their business didn’t grow; the market did. Now, with the market correction, many team leads are outperforming the market or staying flat. However, staying flat in a negative market is a great result.
The only way you can achieve this is by truly understanding your top-line and bottom-line numbers. This is something I’ve been really focused on within our business for the last 5 months. Real estate transaction volume is down around 30% across the US. How do you combat this? How do you ensure you’re not where many agents are right now? How do you make sure that you continue to drive business and perform in line with the market?
Well, I can tell you how you don’t do it. You don’t rely solely on referrals because no one wakes up in the morning saying, ‘Gee, I wonder how I can refer Timmy more business today.’ That’s delusional. You need to increase activities, doubling and tripling down. Here’s what you can do:
Increase the number of door knocks.
Increase the number of cold emails.
Increase the number of social posts.
Increase the number of open houses.
Increase the number of postcards.
Increase your ad spend.
Increase the number of cold calls.
You need to engage in more activity in this market because, for many real estate businesses, I’m sorry to break it to you, but in 2020-2022, your business most likely didn’t grow. The market grew. And if you don’t want to increase volume, you need to up-level your skills. Reach out to my friend Vikram Deol for a chance to be coached by him for free in his incredible free trial.
Activities allow you to perform alongside the market. You need to have more conversations because all conversions happen in conversation.
CEO at Sheridan St.
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