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In part two of our series on ISAs, HomeLight Elite Agent Tony Baroni reveals how his ISA department functions: which leads they handle, how they pass leads back and forth with agents, and how they help his team sell more homes. He also offers advice for any agent wondering if they're ready to hire ISAs.

This week on The Walkthrough, HomeLight Elite Agent Tony Baroni, whose business has nearly tripled (to 300+ transactions in 2020) since he hired his first ISA, shares his process for creating an ISA department inside his real estate team. This is part one of a 2-part series.

Real estate agents seem to love Clubhouse, the hot new audio-based social networking app. Here's how agents can use it to make industry connections and, perhaps someday, even find buyers and sellers.

How will a COVID-19 vaccine impact buyers, sellers, and your real estate business in 2021? We begin season 2 of The Walkthrough with HomeLight's managing editor, Caroline Feeney, unpacking trends and data from our Q4 Top Agent Insights Survey, and five top agents from across the country help us answer those questions about what happens next.

Some houses sell themselves. But in most cases, an experienced real estate agent knows what it takes to turn the typical home into a hot property. Top agents share the tactics they use to increase competition for their real estate listings and sell homes faster.

Real estate has always had a too-much-paperwork problem. Now it also has an email-and-PDF problem. The “paper trail” has been replaced by a “digital file trail.” In this article, you’ll learn how the right tools are helping real estate agents solve those problems and navigate the digital file trail.

After you put a client’s home on the market, interested buyers will have questions about the home. That's where a listing information package becomes your secret weapon! The sooner you can answer a buyer's questions, the more you speed up their decision-making. Learn how one agent has created a perfect listing information package to proactively sell more listings.

What a year 2020 was in real estate! Helping us sort it all out this year on our podcast were guests including Tom Ferry, Karin Carr, Sarita Dua, and Brian Boero, just to name a few. In this episode of The Walkthrough, host Matt McGee shares some of his favorite interview clips from this year's shows, and explains how they fit into the show's mission to "explore how great agents grow their business, stand out from the crowd, and become irreplaceable."

It might be one of the best feelings you'll ever have in real estate: the feeling you get after you sell a home that one, two, or several other agents couldn't sell. Jennifer Hastings, a top agent in Traverse City, Michigan, practically built her business around that feeling.

On this week's Walkthrough, Anthony Marguleas, one of the top real estate agents in Los Angeles, says it's time to be proactive and look for homes that match your buyers' needs. He shares five creative ways to find new inventory when it seems like none exists.