It’s tempting once closing is over to dump the mountain of paper that every real estate transaction seems to generate. But clean out judiciously.

Real estate is a reputation business. Here are ways your associates can bolster your company’s reputation by showing respect for the public, the properties they show, and their peers.

As a rule of thumb, property ads and promotions should focus on describing the property, not the sellers or potential buyers. Here are some fair housing guidelines from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development on acceptable and unacceptable advertising phrases.

A growing number of federal and state laws make it imperative that you adhere to a disclosed policy on how you gather customer information and what you do with it. Here are some policy building blocks.