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It’s late July, and that means closing season is coming. With the season, suddenly your calendar is full of inspections, appraisals, contractor visits, and final walk-throughs. This is the part of the season where deals are won or lost: not on negotiation, but on coordination. A missed inspection window or a walk-through that slips a day can cost you a sale.
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48% of buyer inquiries never get answered. The market slowed down. Your response time can't.
It’s late July, and that means closing season is coming. With the season, suddenly your calendar is full of inspections, appraisals, contractor visits, and final walk-throughs. This is the part of the season where deals are won or lost: not on negotiation, but on coordination. A missed inspection window or a walk-through that slips a day can cost you a sale.
Sep 10
Labor Day weekend kicks off the fall market. Open it strong.
It’s late July, and that means closing season is coming. With the season, suddenly your calendar is full of inspections, appraisals, contractor visits, and final walk-throughs. This is the part of the season where deals are won or lost: not on negotiation, but on coordination. A missed inspection window or a walk-through that slips a day can cost you a sale.
Sep 3
The Rate Cut Everyone Has Been Waiting For May Finally Be Here. Here Is What That Means for You.
For the better part of two years, the conversation in every open house, every listing appointment, and every buyer consultation has included some version of the same question: when are rates coming down? September 2026 might finally be the answer.
Sep 1
Labor Day weekend is coming. Be the agent who's available.
It’s late July, and that means closing season is coming. With the season, suddenly your calendar is full of inspections, appraisals, contractor visits, and final walk-throughs. This is the part of the season where deals are won or lost: not on negotiation, but on coordination. A missed inspection window or a walk-through that slips a day can cost you a sale.
Aug 28
Fall Is the Most Underrated Season in Real Estate. Here Is How to Make the Most of It.
Ask most people when the real estate market peaks and they will tell you spring. Ask the agents who consistently have their best years and a lot of them will tell you something different.
Fall is where pipelines get built.
Aug 23
Nobody Told You the First Year Would Feel Like This. Here Is How to Change It.
You passed the exam. You joined a brokerage. You told everyone you know that you are officially a real estate agent. And then you sat down at your desk and realized nobody handed you a client list.
If you are in your first year or two of real estate, you are living one of the most financially challenging stretches of any career path you could have chosen. The numbers are not encouraging on the surface. The median income for agents in their first two years is around $8,100, a
Aug 21
Summer is cooling off. Time for the price conversation.
It’s late July, and that means closing season is coming. With the season, suddenly your calendar is full of inspections, appraisals, contractor visits, and final walk-throughs. This is the part of the season where deals are won or lost: not on negotiation, but on coordination. A missed inspection window or a walk-through that slips a day can cost you a sale.
Aug 21
The Real Estate App With a Feature Nobody Talks About (But Every Agent Should Know)
If you know KeyPleaz, you probably know it as the platform that connects busy agents with available agents for showings, open houses, and runner tasks. That is the core of what we do and it is what most people think of first.
But there is a feature inside the app that has nothing to do with transactions, commissions, or business productivity. It is called Connect and Assist, and it might be the most important thing KeyPleaz has ever built.
Aug 13
Zillow Just Cut 500 Jobs. Here Is What Every Real Estate Professional Needs to Think About.
If you missed the news this week, Zillow Group laid off more than 500 employees on Tuesday, August 4th. That is roughly 7% of their entire global workforce and their second round of cuts this year, following another 200 positions eliminated back in January. The announcement came the day before Zillow released its Q2 2026 earnings, which showed revenue up 18% year over year to $708 million.
Aug 6
The back-to-school clock is ticking. Protect every deal in motion.
It’s late July, and that means closing season is coming. With the season, suddenly your calendar is full of inspections, appraisals, contractor visits, and final walk-throughs. This is the part of the season where deals are won or lost: not on negotiation, but on coordination. A missed inspection window or a walk-through that slips a day can cost you a sale.
Aug 5
Trying to take a summer break? Here is how to step away without losing deals.
It’s late July, and that means closing season is coming. With the season, suddenly your calendar is full of inspections, appraisals, contractor visits, and final walk-throughs. This is the part of the season where deals are won or lost: not on negotiation, but on coordination. A missed inspection window or a walk-through that slips a day can cost you a sale.
Jul 31
The Clock Is Running. Why August Is the Most Urgent Month in Real Estate.
The summer market has been active, but August is different. What starts in June as motivated buyers casually touring homes has, by the first week of August, turned into something with a hard clock on it.
Jul 30
Closing season is here. Do not let the logistics trip you up.
It’s late July, and that means closing season is coming. With the season, suddenly your calendar is full of inspections, appraisals, contractor visits, and final walk-throughs. This is the part of the season where deals are won or lost: not on negotiation, but on coordination. A missed inspection window or a walk-through that slips a day can cost you a sale.
Jul 23
The Rules of Real Estate Just Changed. Here Is What Every Agent Needs to Know.
If you have been paying attention to industry news lately, you have probably noticed something is shifting in a big way, and it is not just the market.
The way listings are found, shared, and controlled is being completely rewritten right now, and it is happening fast. Zillow, Compass, Redfin, and eXp are all drawing new lines in the sand.
Jul 21
The mid-July slowdown is here. Are your listings still moving?
Every summer follows the same rhythm: the spring rush peaks in June, and by mid-July the market takes its foot off the gas. Buyer urgency softens, showing traffic thins out, and the listings that hit the market back in May start to look tired. That all means that the listings that keep moving now are the ones getting active attention rather than sitting on autopilot.
Jul 16
Summer is halfway over. How's your pipeline looking?
We are officially past the midpoint of summer, and the market is starting to feel different than it did in June. Showings are cooling from their peak, listings that went up in May are aging, and the frantic pace of early summer is giving way to something slower and more deliberate. None of that is bad news. It just means the game changes now. The agents who shift with the seasons are the ones who head into fall with a full pipeline instead of a scramble.
Jul 10
The Second Half of 2026 Is Yours to Win. Here Is How to Make Sure of It.
The summer market is moving, and the numbers back it up. Home sales just hit their highest level since December. First-time buyers climbed to 35% of all transactions in May, their strongest showing since June 2020. Inventory is up, which means more listings are hitting the market, more buyers are getting active, and more showing requests are landing in agent inboxes every day. If you have been waiting for the market to give you something to work with, this is it.
Jul 8
Fourth of July weekend: Coverage made easy.
The Fourth of July weekend is here. While many agents are stepping back to celebrate, the buyers are not stopping. In many markets, holiday weekends bring serious shoppers who finally have time to tour homes. KeyPleaz makes sure you never have to choose between your holiday and your clients.
Jul 2
While Everyone Else Is at the Lake, Your Most Serious Buyers Are Out Looking at Homes
It is the week of the 4th of July, which means a good chunk of the country is at the lake, on a road trip, or three drinks into a backyard cookout. If you are an agent, this might feel like the week to finally take your foot off the gas.
Do not do it. This is actually one of the best weeks of the year to be working, and the buyers who show up during it are some of the most motivated you will see all season.
Jun 29
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