Selling big for little: Franchise structure offers brokers affordable regions.

Fast takes on the latest real estate news.

Henry Pham is attempting to tackle a long-standing challenge in the residential real estate industry: keeping associates and their clients together for life.

Your residential business is in the doldrums, so now might be a good time to start a commercial division. Such a move could help you diversify your operations to create a new income stream for future growth.

Buyers have energy efficiency on their minds, but they still like their big houses and multiple cars, too. Almost 60 percent of home buyers are prepared to spend more for a house with an oversized garage, and almost 40 percent would do the same to get a house that’s ready for cable or satellite TV, NAR research shows.

Fast takes on the latest real estate news.

Fast takes on the latest real estate news.

If you expect to build your business for long-term prosperity, you occasionally have to step outside the here-and-now. REALTOR® Magazine’s 2007 Innovators Series lets you sit in on freewheeling discussions with thought leaders in brokerage, technology, marketing, and customer service. Find out firsthand where some of the sharpest minds in the field think the industry is going.

As Congress looks at energy legislation, will real estate come out a loser? Whatever legislation Congress passes this year, it’ll be only the opening salvo of what analysts expect to be a long-term focus on climate change.

Real estate's wild card: Just as it was set to recover, housing is visited by a hangover from its boom days.

Called up to active duty shortly after launching his company, a U.S. Army Reserve captain has nevertheless doubled the size of his brokerage.