Real Estate Industry

Top 10 Best Blogs and Podcasts for Every Real Estate Agent

Selling houses is not easy. With the consumer market now being highly aware of their needs and new things in town, as a real estate agent, one needs to be up-to-date with new trends too. Only the best knowledge holder can be the best at their game of selling houses. 

You need to know what is the best thing in the market up for grabs, and you need to be aware of what would sell like hot-cakes. To do so, one needs to be in possession of the best technologies. And this comes with staying up-to-date with recent industry knowledge. 

I understand it is difficult to be aware of every little thing happening. That is why I have compiled this comprehensive list of 5 blogs and 5 podcasts for every real estate agent to check out. In case you want to skim through things quickly, you can opt to read the blogs. And if you are looking to spend a part of your routine listening to something in the backdrop, you can opt for the podcasts.

Top 5 real estate blogs to read

#1 Culture Scan – The National Association of Realtors 

Culture Scan is the official blog by The National Association of Realtors. Offering free and quality insights into today’s real estate market, the blog stands true to its tag line – At the intersection of real estate, media, and pop culture. They recognize that selling houses is not as easy as showing buyers the most optimum house for themselves. A lot of things go into the purchasing of a property. They offer value tips in an easy to understand language for all your house selling woes.

#2 The BiggerPockets Blog

The BiggerPockets Blog is quite possibly the most up-to-date resource for real estate agents currently. The blog has expert contributors who have been working in the real estate industry for years in several domains – personal financing, real estate investing, marketing, etc. A new blog almost every day, they provide some quality tips and suggestions for not just real estate agents but for home buyers too. Most importantly, they also host regular webinars in case you are interested in one. 

#3 McKissock Blogs

The McKissock Blog provides niche information on only three categories – real estate, appraisals, and news. They have a whole section dedicated to new in the market real estate agents looking to begin their career in this industry. With their no-nonsense attitude, the McKissock blogs talk about appraisals of several home types (such as senior housing), real estate tax laws, and many more such topics. Their recent post on ‘Secondary Mortgage Market: The History of Fannie Mae’ has been quite a hit with readers. They support their tips with past trends and great industry insights so you know that you are not simply reading another blog with standard tips and suggestions. 

#4 Keller Williams

The USP of Keller Williams is their hand-curated TED Talks. The blog talks about how to grow your real estate business, and how to get in touch with the latest technologies required for you to make the best sale. Their blogs are highly informative, with great insights and statistics. They also specialize in quality blogs for lead generation and personal branding.

#5 HousingWire

The HousingWire offers insights, latest industry news, updates, tips, suggestions, and more in a wide variety of categories. Be it mortgage, fin-tech, real estate, politics and money, communities, or general knowledge base, they expertise in a lot of sub-topics for these domains too. You can stay up-to-date reading their blogs and use the same information to help your clients make intelligent real estate decisions.

Top 5 real estate podcasts to hear

#1 Real Estate Coaching Radio

Real Estate Coaching Radio is hosted by Tim and Julie Harris. They interview real estate professionals for the best industry updates along with sharing tips and advice for real estate agents. Real Estate Coaching Radio does not talk about things to be done down the line. They talk about real actionable advice that you can get to implementing today itself.

#2 Tom Ferry Podcast

The Tom Ferry Podcast is for every real estate agent out there. Be it an agent who has just started their career or agents with a lot of experience handling multi-million dollar housing deals, he has great advice and tips for everyone. He has been around for ages. He is the true hardened expert in the industry. You do not have to worry about finding the same age-old standard advice in his podcasts. He too talks about actionable tips sharing tips to improve both marketing and selling. Famously known as Coach Tom Ferry, he is dubbed the #1 Real Estate Educator.

#3 Agent Caffeine

Agent Caffeine is hosted by Kelly Mitchell. A great fresh new take on real estate from one of the few female experts in the industry, she majorly focuses on real estate innovation, technology, and best practices. Listen to her podcasts and gain tips on real estate strategy, marketing, advertising, sales, and branding from the industry guru herself.

#4 Caravan Confessions

Real estate is often dubbed as a very dry business. The resources on real estate itself can be very difficult to read continuously too. While this list has a lot of options for you that give a fresh take on things with easy to understand language, Caravan Confessions is a whole new level of uber-cool fantastic in the real estate world. Eric Simon brings an ultra level of humor in his content. He delivers great advice on selling, marketing, strategizing, and branding while sharing his craziest and hilarious experiences with real estate clients.

#5 Real Estate Today Radio

To complement the first blog on this list – The National Association of Realtors blog on real estate, Culture Scan – that I mentioned in the ‘Top 5 real estate blogs to read’ section of this blog, I would like to end this list with the podcast series by The National Association of Realtors, Real Estate Today Radio. Standing true to their tag line – ‘Real Estate Today is the public’s instant connection to the American Dream of home-ownership’, Real Estate Today Radio is hosted by the award-winning, Stephen Gasque. 

Deepan heads Demand Gen at SaaS Labs. A data-driven marketer, Deepan is extremely passionate about enabling early stage SaaS companies & accelerating their growth

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