It can feel lonely when you’re thrown into the real estate industry with no support. These tips can help you advocate for yourself and get a quicker start to your career.

New agents can’t depend on prelicensing classes or their brokers to teach them everything about real estate. Here, experienced agents offer advice on what rookies should know at the beginning of their careers.

For new agents, it can feel like a personal defeat when a real estate deal falls apart. Here’s how one practitioner learned to pick herself up and move on after her first summer in the business was a wash.

When you’re new to real estate, prospective clients may question whether you have the skill to represent them. These scripts emphasize your drive and work ethic over transaction history and will help put clients’ minds at ease.

You may think you should start spending right away on big-time marketing and expensive lead-generation tools. But when you’re starting out in real estate, it’s best to keep things simple and save your cash.

Do you think you can’t compete with agents who have more experience or knowledge in the market? You need to define your own value.

The courses you took to get your license probably didn’t cover these common pitfalls. Here, we’ll teach you how to be better prepared.

You need to know how your peers are conducting business in order to stand out. Here’s where to start gathering information.

Look for expired listings you believe can still sell, but make sure you know how to approach the owners.

At first, Jenifer Santoro wasn’t sure she should pay the fee for hiring a coach. But she soon found out how much more she would get in return.

The run-of-the-mill agent sites that brokerages provide don’t always let agents shine. Sonny Cox broke from the mold and created his own site to stand out from other agents in his office.