Real Estate Team OS

Most real estate teams are built around their leader. And at some level, most team leaders know it. Nathan Clark identified that problem early, named it clearly, and spent 20 years solving it. 

The result is a 600-plus transaction, 24-agent, 5-ISA, and 7-staff real estate team in Rhode Island that generates 30 to 35% net profit annually and genuinely runs without him: 15 to 20 hours of work per week, five race cars, and a f...

Most real estate team leaders assume more is better. More agents, more channels, more tech, more systems, more growth, more quickly.

Brittany Gibbs built her brokerage on the opposite premise. 

When she opened Move Real Estate the day she got her principal broker's license, she made a deliberate choice to do less and focus more: fewer agents added at a time, simpler systems, one channel done well instead of ten done poorly. ...

Most real estate teams hit a wall they can't see clearly.

As production grows, sales leadership becomes the bottleneck. Not because your leaders aren't talented, but because accountability and inspection work alone requires roughly 80 hours a month before recruiting, onboarding, or training even starts.

AI is now changing that math.

Learn how that bottleneck forms, what it costs teams at every stage of growth, and how Christo...

Some of your best agents will eventually start wondering what it takes to build a team. Instead of letting that curiosity play out on its own, which might mean losing them, Keegan Siegfried gets ahead of it.

He brings high-potential agents behind the curtain: P&Ls, budgets, accountability meetings, the real cost of hiring and firing, all of it. Many realize they don't actually want to build a team. Some have become expa...

What would a commercial division add to your residential real estate team? And what does it look like when one generates roughly $100M in active listings — and a $25M portfolio sale — in its first year?

You're about to find out. But this episode is about a lot more than a shower-thought-turned-11-agent commercial division.

Grant Johnson's Twin Cities team went from selling 100-150 homes per year for nearly a decade to 270, t...

A full-time chef.
A margarita machine.
Live bands.
Charcuterie boxes.
Golf trips.
A consignment shop.
An animal welfare nonprofit.

Are any of these on your list of real estate team lead generation tactics? Probably not.

Who are they a fit for? Someone who’s delivering “what’s needed in our area.” Someone who’s in production because “leadership without proximity loses power.” Someone who’s invested in growin...

Why make 300 cold calls per day if you don’t have to?

That’s how Ryan Fitzgerald started his real estate career - cold calling like crazy. But it didn't last long. Because there was a better way.

Instead of chasing and selling to people, Ryan learned to attract them instead. How? With a strong, local website that brought him inbound leads and agent recruits alike.

Today, Raleigh Realty is an independent brokerage of 40 agents...

Wondering how to sell more new construction?
Curious about how to partner effectively with a home builder?

You’re about to learn the details of a partnership that’s grown from selling 10 new homes in one market in 2017 to 550 new homes per year in multiple markets today!

Learn how the #1 Century 21 real estate team in the world has integrated deeply and grown concurrently with one builder.

Kate Robinson was one of the firs...

After closing more than $160 million himself in 2018, Jason Mitchell walked away from personal production.

Why? To build a company.

Today, JMG is America’s #1 real estate team, closing more than $6 billion in sales and 12,000 units.

Here in this conversation, learn how he made the transition from top producer to operator, the challenge of selling your vision and value prop, common and costly mistakes of team leaders and expan...

What if the fastest way to grow a real estate team wasn’t generating more leads—but servicing someone else’s clients at scale?

Jason Mitchell built America’s #1 real estate team by evolving past traditional agent thinking and creating a unique model based on trust, accountability, leadership development, centralized operations, and B2B partnerships.

He welcomed us into JMG headquarters, gave us more than an hour of his time,...

From a moped-riding, script-reading agent working expired listings to the owner of the fastest-growing brokerage in Hawaii.
 
From a prospecting-first team on the phones together four hours a day to a media-driven brokerage creating 200+ pieces of content a month.

Talk Realty CEO Devin Tryan shares lessons learned through big transitions over the past dozen years or so, including the five-step, three-bucket system...

Like many successful, high-growth, The Perna Team had systems and playbooks to support agents with nearly every lead source.

But what about the best source of all … an agent’s sphere? Their SOI?

Sadie Callegari, Director of Coaching and Training of this 120-agent team, gives you all the details of the start, iteration, re-launch, and evolution of their sphere marketing program. It’s her system to keep agents top of mind with...

The Falcon system to deliver guidance and success.
The tech hub to unify multiple lines of business.
The merged calls to save deals.

A mortgage expert who’s since grown a 100-person organization delivering integrated real estate services, Jordan Vreeland’s constantly building the playbook.

Go inside his athletics-informed philosophy and approach to developing people, unifying teams, leveraging tech, and improving clien...

More than 500 transactions last year - 100% by referral.
Nearly $1B in sales over the past five years - working by referral only.

Carol Foderick has built a 20-agent, 15-staff team that exclusively works by referral. Each agent owns their database and relies on the camaraderie of the team and the leverage of the staff. Go inside the structure of her team and get the numbers behind working by referral.

How many marketing a...

Do you need an ISA? When? How do you comp them? What if they want to be agents? What if they’re overseas?

Should your team follow scripts? How closely? Where are the non-negotiables and where do you find room to stay human?

How do we uncover motivation and handle objections in a helpful way that improves client experience?

Nikki Pais is here to address all that and more. She brings years of experience as an EA, ISA, and Direc...

Brett Jennings is making a big bet on peer accountability pods. A billion-dollar bet.

The Owner and Founder of Real Estate Experts, Brett shares the details behind the nearly 10x growth of his hybrid teamerage (from $165M to $1.2B in sales) and the strategy to growth through acquisitions to $4B.

Learn how purpose has made team agents, solo agents, and staff more productive (creating more than a dozen first-time $1M GCI produ...

No matter what stage of business maturity your real estate team or brokerage has achieved, you face growth constraints. Many are structural to your organization and to the industry - like affordability challenges, disconnected tools, siloed data, and even lead abundance.

Learn to circle back to harden your foundation, identify and relieve stress points, and prepare for tomorrow’s market with Works Real Estate CEO Winston Mu...

Brian Buffini started a real estate team before teams were a thing. Back in 1992. Back before brokerages had any idea what to do with a team.

Today, Buffini & Company coaches and trains agents, team leaders, and broker owners around the world.

All along, Brian’s viewed teams as “the future of real estate.” But team leadership isn’t for everyone and  aspirations for a mega team aren’t necessary.

Brian was kind enough to be...

What happens when you invest so deeply in your people that they could leave today and find success starting their own business?

The most likely outcome: they stay and you continue growing together.
But the more common path: a more transactional approach for fear they’ll leave you.

Jon Cheplak returns to Real Estate Team OS to explain why he thinks 90% of real estate team leaders shouldn’t be team leaders and to share what...