Maria Patterson

The tumultuous 2022 market saw many of the agents who had flocked to residential real estate during the pandemic boom quickly change their minds and exit the business for a more reliable career path. But there were some who stayed—some who defied the odds and thrived despite the economic turmoil of rising interest rates and…

Liz Bryant moderates a conversation with Chris Clemente (managing broker/owner – vice president at Motto Mortgage Specialists) and Patricia Maguire-Feltch (managing director, mortgage banking consumer originations sales executive, Chase Home Lending). From a pain-staking series of interest-rate increases and dogged inflation, to out-of-reach prices and sparse inventory, consumer confidence in homebuying has suffered a serious…

Following RISMedia’s recent unveiling of the Top 25 regional Rookie of the Year finalists for 2023, this series will spotlight the five finalists from each region, continuing this week with the Southeast finalists.  The Rookie of the Year program, sponsored by Colibri Real Estate and now in its second year, is designed to honor real…

Following RISMedia’s recent unveiling of the Top 25 regional Rookie of the Year finalists for 2023, this series will spotlight the five finalists from each region, continuing this week with the Western regional finalists.  The Rookie of the Year program, sponsored by Colibri Real Estate and now in its second year, is designed to honor…

Following RISMedia’s recent unveiling of the Top 25 regional Rookie of the Year finalists for 2023, this series will spotlight the five finalists from each region, continuing this week with the five finalists from the Southern region.  The Rookie of the Year program, sponsored by Colibri Real Estate and now in its second year, is…

Following RISMedia’s recent unveiling of the Top 25 regional Rookie of the Year finalists for 2023, this series will spotlight the five finalists from each region, beginning this week with the Midwest finalists. The Rookie of the Year program, sponsored by Colibri Real Estate and now in its second year, is designed to honor real…

Following RISMedia’s recent unveiling of the Top 25 regional Rookie of the Year finalists for 2023, this series will spotlight the five finalists from each region, beginning this week with the Northeast finalists.  The Rookie of the Year program, sponsored by Colibri Real Estate and now in its second year, is designed to honor real…

In a program designed to honor real estate agents who are new to the business yet already achieving extraordinary results, RISMedia’s second-annual Real Estate Rookie of the Year Award program, sponsored by Colibri Real Estate, today revealed the Top 25 regional finalists for 2023. Five regional winners will be chosen from among the Top 25,…

The results of RISMedia’s 2023 Power Broker Report made it quite clear that the most reliable way to ensure brokerage growth in 2022 was to go out and buy it. Out of the ten companies with the highest percent sales growth between 2021 and 2022, seven had at least one major merger or acquisition in…

“We can put sufficient consumer protections and safeguards on this industry so that something like the failure of FTX would likely not happen in the United States.” This was CEO & Leadership Exchange speaker Senator Cynthia Lummis’ (R-WY) comments following last week’s introduction of a new bipartisan crypto-regulation bill she co-authored with Sen. Kristen Gillibrand…