The #REALTYHACK Podcast

What are the best private and public schools in Austin? When do you start preparing your kids for college? How do you know if you should put your kid in a public or private school? These are the questions we asked our guest, Kathy Bloch-Swarts, an independent school advisor, on our latest podcast.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack Instagram:  @ryanrodenbeck You...

Amber Thomas is the owner and CEO of Platinum Top 50 Realtors, an organization that celebrates the achievements of real estate agents in Austin and San Antonio. In this interview, we go over how she got started in this industry and what agents need to know to be a top-producing agent.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack Instagram:  @ryanrodenbeck YouTube:  Realty...

This video is a brief history of the zoning in Austin and a prequel to a longer video that will feature interviews with zoning experts, developers, and people who are in the know on why our city council has constantly failed to act on changes to an outdated code that would allow for more density and affordable housing for our ever-growing city. This is all a prelude to Code Next.   🔗 Connect with...

Our sales director, John McCarthy, breaks down how to write a winning offer in 2023.

Our all-star panel of luxury real estate agents at the last RealtyHack Summit tell how to break into luxury real estate, how it's different from selling residential real estate and the differences on how to talk to and market to luxury home buyers and seller.

How do you build an amazing, top-producing real estate team? That's exactly what Todd Bailey with the Baily Robb Group went into in this last interview we did with him. He explores how he got into the Austin real estate scene and what he did to rise to become one of the most successful team leaders in Austin.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack Instagram:  @ryanr...

With the recent announcement of Meta/Facebook layoffs as well as the bailout of failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB Bank), many may be wondering how these incidents are impacting the job market in the Austin technology industry. We interviewed Kevin Nothnagel about this to get his take on what's happening in the tech world.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack Instagr...

I sat down with Austin Stowell to talk about Austin's antiquated zoning rules for land use and development.  He had a years long debacle with the city over a development that in many cities would have been easy. We get into depth on what he went through, and what the city can do to make it's zoning laws more effective in the future.    🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realt...

Want to know how you can sell 50 homes a year? In part 3 of Anthony Lamachhia's keynote speech from our RealtyHack summit in January, Anthony breaks down what you need to know to accomplish this. From mindset, goal setting, and the steps you need to take every single week to accomplish this.

How do you talk to home sellers in 2023? That's the question that real estate agents have been asking in our brokerage. We brought in Anthony Lamacchia to discuss how to creatively help seller realize their goals.

The way you talk to home buyers in this market is completely different than you would in the past 4 years. Anthony Lamacchia gave the keynote speech for our RealtyHack Summit a few weeks ago. He KILLED it. This is part 1 of 3.

Actually, the story from one of these top-producing panelists is even worse than that. I don't want to spoil anything but here's the video of top producing agents Dena Davis, Adam Walker, John Crowe, and Adam Walker on how to be a top producer in real estate. They went over how they got to be where they are and what they're doing differently to adapt to this market.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #Re...

At our RealtyHack Summit we had the week before last we interviewed Kent Redding, Kinan Beck, Christina Mungo, and Liz Riley. They share strategies for onboarding new agents and maintaining a productive work environment. They also discuss how the use of technology has helped them become successful real estate teams in the area.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack...

In my second interview with ABoR CEO, Emily Chenevert, we covered the looming questions that are present in our minds now. Will we see a decline in the number of real estate agents in Austin? How is "Proptech" helping agents with automation? What's happening in the Austin Real Estate Market.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack Instagram:  @ryanrodenbeck YouTube: ...

What is Instagram going to be like for real estate agents in 2023? We interviewed Chelsea Bucklew, who runs a social media class for realtors. We also had her present to our team of agents at our last company meeting. She tells all the Instagram tips and social media techniques so that agents can define their social media niche and add value to their channels. 🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack...

Mitch Robinson has worked for some of the most brilliant CEOs at Proptech innovators companies and innovators and disrupters such as Expedia, Zillow, EXP, T360, and now Real Estate News. He's seen the journey of these companies. He breaks down how real estate agents can stay relevant in a changing technology atmosphere and what all of these visionary innovators had in common.   🔗 Connect with Rya...

Part 2 in my interview with my good friend, Max Leaman. I've known Max for about 7 years now and he's become one of my best friends. In this interview, we talk about his journey from being the number one volume producer of loans in Austin to starting his own mortgage bank. This is not an easy thing to accomplish. We talk about what real estate agents need in a mortgage partner and what it means to...

Austin's luxury real estate market has arguably suffered more than any other segment of homes in Austin. What is happening with Luxury homes in Austin? Today we interview my friend Wade Giles about what he is seeing in the market.   🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack Instagram:  @ryanrodenbeck YouTube:  RealtyHack LinkedIn:  Ryan Rodenbeck 🔗 Read the Blog Post: P...

Why does the fed raise interest rates? Well, we know it's to cool off inflation but this is complicated stuff when it gets down to it. Real estate agents need to have a basic understanding of how inflation works and why the Fed does what it does. A few weeks ago I was having happy hour with my good friend, Max Leaman and he went into detail about it. I was impressed by the way he explained it and...

Mitch Robinson has played a hand in many of the most innovative real estate companies of our time. His story stretches decades from CMO of Zillow in its earliest days to founding his newest venture in Real Estate News. I had the chance to sit down with him and go over his history and discuss his role in some of the most profound disruptions that have occurred in the real estate industry.

You're going to get objections as a real estate agent and you're going to need to handle those objections in order to move your client forward. Otherwise, you're going to find that you're not closing deals. You're going to find that you're working your ass off to stay in the bottom production of your firm. Well in today's video interview with Johnny McCarthy, I'm going to show you 3 simple ways to...

This is not the same real estate market that it has been in the last 3 years. Most home buyers under 30 years old have not seen rates above 5%. It's important that you are able to ask the right questions to buyers that are hesitant and then provide them with historical data that guides them to make the right decision on whether they should buy now or wait. We believe the best sales people sell by...

One of the issues agents have these days is how to supplement their business with hired help. One of the first things an agent shouldn't do is not hire a buyer's agent, but an admin and that is through virtual assistants or VAs.    🔗 Connect with Ryan: The #RealtyHack Podcast Facebook:  Realty Hack Instagram:  @ryanrodenbeck YouTube:  RealtyHack LinkedIn:  Ryan Rodenbeck 🔗 Read the Blog Post: Pr...

What's wrong with Austin's Zoning issues. You may have read that the city has the highest development fees in the state. That's only a start to the issues. In this interview, I sat down with Chris Affinito of Heartwood RE to talk about the issues that developers have with Austin's cluster of zoning requirements and Chris goes over how he tackles the entitlement of raw land and how his team uses so...

Part 2 of our interview with former Zillow outreach director, Jay Thompson. We talk about the over-leveraged real estate disrupters such as Redfin, Compass, Better, Rex Homes, and other real estate technology firms that are showing signs that they may be in trouble if the market continues at this pace. We also talk about the DOJ investigation into claims of anti-trust violations.   🔗 Connect with...