Features
BROKERAGE MANAGEMENT
Online Oversight
Avoid potential liability. Set up digital use policies
for your o;ce. Page 19
CONFERENCE PREVIEW
A ‘Golden’ Opportunity
#NARannual in San Francisco: Get inspired.
Page 22
EDITORS’ CHOICE
Best of the Web 2013
Here are nifty apps and Web sites that’ll inspire
business e;ciency and creativity. Page 26
HOT TOPICS
What’s Trending in Real Estate?
Stay in the know with these six developing real
estate stories. Page 29
PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS
What’s the Big Deal
About Big Data?
Consumer information trails will one day provide
practitioners with a far deeper understanding of
clients’ needs. Page 30
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Voices
PRESIDENT
5 EDITOR
6 READERS
7
This Issue SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2013
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48
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Real Life
REALTOR.COM®:
CHANGE IS HERE
10
Dramatic moves are giving
consumers more of what
they want while keeping
the REALTOR® brand front
and center.
YOUR NAR
11
Stay safe with these four
REALTOR® Safety Month tips.
ECONOMY
12
How inflation will
impact home sales.
HOME
14
A compelling new
Web space centered
on home design.
Columns
LAW
45
Avoid earnest
money battles.
LAST WORD
48
Demographic shifts
don’t always capture
a market’s potential.
Vol. 46, No. 5 REALTOR® Magazine (ISSN 1522-0842) is published bimonthly by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®, 430 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611–4087. Periodicals postage paid at Chicago, IL, and at additional mailing o;ces.
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