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Black Knight invests in Percy (Buyside)

Black Knight Announces Strategic Alliance With Percy To Provide An Advanced Client Engagement Solution For Real Estate Professionals And Mortgage Lenders

“The alliance will allow Black Knight to offer clients a new, advanced consumer engagement solution fueled by billions of behavioral datapoints that helps real estate professionals and lenders cultivate deeper customer relationships. Using proprietary machine learning to monitor homeowner behavior “signals” through custom landing pages with engaging content (e.g., property valuations, local buyer demand and market activity, monthly email reports, listing activity on client websites, etc.), Percy helps identify the precise timing that a homeowner is likely to transact.”

Congrats to Chuck and everyone at Percy. The funny thing is when I first Googled “Black Knight and Percy” I got this page.

Sir Percy of Scandia, also known as the original Black Knight, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He was a medieval knight created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Joe Maneely.”

Stan Lee called it.

N.A.R. should steal this idea

Charles “Chuck” Williams, CEO & Founder Buyside

America’s Top Real Estate Firms Come Together to Launch the First-Ever National Home Valuation Week in Partnership with Buyside

“After a rapid growth in the network of firms on the Buyside platform adding $54 billion in listing opportunities, the company pushed even harder for more listings and worked with its broker clients to launch the first ever National Home Valuation Week (#NHVW), which begins Monday, September 21st, 2020. Top real estate firms located in the United States will be participating in the event, joining together to promote consumers to check the value of their home though their local broker.”

You know how you are always hearing about “National Puppy Day”, or “National Margarita Day”, well this idea takes a different spin on that and I think it’s genius.

National Home Valuation Week (#NHVM) promotes homeowners to check the value of their home through a local broker/agent. Boom!

With a nationwide housing shortage, this could be a great way to encourage homeowners to consider selling their homes. The best way to make this successful is to increase the coverage.

I’m sure Charles Williams, founder, and CEO of Buyside has trademarked the shit out of this but that doesn’t preclude N.A.R., Zillow, Opendoor, whoever from working towards something that would benefit the entire industry. Chuck’s contact information is listed at the bottom of their press release. Call him. Let’s do this!

Plus, once they get a quick valuation from Buyside and the agent needs a present a full CMA, I know a guy.

Listing Bits Episode: How to Win Business with Buyer Data – with Ashley Terrell of Buyside

Speaking of Buyside

It’s easier to gain a seller’s trust when you have the data to back you up. But where can agents and brokers go for real-time buyer data? And how do we turn those numbers into actionable insights to earn new business?

Ashley Terrell is the Executive Vice President of Partnerships at Buyside, a real estate tech platform that helps real estate professionals leverage intelligent buyer data to capture seller leads, win more listings and close more transaction sides in-house. Prior to joining Buyside, Ashley served as the Director of Account Management and Director of Strategic Growth at Constellation Software and the Director of Account Management and Product Marketing at Real Estate Digital. 

On this episode of Listing Bits, Ashley explains how Buyside partners with other vendors to procure data and provide its users with seamless product integration. She offers insight around the current buyer landscape, sharing her take on why there’s such a boom in real estate right now. Listen in for Ashley’s insight on the resources available to help agents use the Buyside tools and learn how to leverage buyer data to win your next listing presentation.

What’s Discussed: 

Ashley’s background in tech and how she was introduced to the real estate tech space

How Buyside serves as a seller lead gen tool and helps agents win listing presentations

How Buyside procures data from vendors like Zillow, ShowingTime, etc.

Buyside’s focus on seamless product integration to create the best possible user experience 

Ashley’s insight around the current buyer landscape in real estate

Ashley’s take on why there’s such a boom in real estate right now

How agents and brokers can leverage buyer data in a listing presentation

–Help seller price home

–Marketing strategy

–Pool of buyers

How Buyside serves large brokerages vs. small brokerages and large teams

The value proposition for Buyside in a buyer’s market

Ashley’s commitment to building out resources that help agents use the Buyside tools

Connect with Ashley:

Buyside

Ashley on LinkedIn

Resources:

Market Leader

Sharper Agent

Real Living

John Hensley

John Heithaus on Listing Bits EP061

Charles Williams

ShowingTime

RealScout

Cloud CMA

Inman News

‘Existing Home Sales Skyrocket Amid Pandemic, Inventory Down’ in Inman News

ShowingTime’s June 2020 Showing Index Results

Buyside Help Center

Sponsor:

Cloud CMA

Cloud CMA now integrates with Buyside data

Cloud CMA launches new data integration with Buyside

“Agents who create listing presentations with Cloud CMA are about to get a new edge in their efforts to win clients thanks to a new integration with data firm Buyside.
The integration, which was announced Tuesday, will let agents directly incorporate Buyside’s real-time market data into their presentations. Pennsylvania-based Buyside compiles data from online portals, open house software and various other sources to identify how many people are looking for a particular type of property at any given moment.”

Jim Dalrymple II at Inman News

We’ve always made it a point to be inclusive of data and tools that help brokers and agents look awesome in front of their clients. Showing the homeowner real-time data of the number of buyers looking for homes like theirs is a no-brainer. This new integration does exactly that with just the click of a button.

2020 is going to be a great year for Cloud CMA customers. I’m so grateful and proud of our team at W+R Studios and I can’t wait to share with you what they have been cooking up!

RE/MAX Results adds Buyside

RE/MAX Results Launches Buyside, Arming Agents with Real-time Buyer Demand Insights

Buyside

“RE/MAX Results has a longstanding history of providing the very best marketing & technology tools to support our sales associates. We continue to deliver on that promise, being the first brokerage in our market to arm our sales associates with Buyside, a platform that provides valuable intel about what’s going on in the market and helps us successfully connect more home-buyers and sellers,” said Brenda Tushaus, CEO of RE/MAX Results. 

Buyside

Lots of innovation going on in this space. RE/MAX Results is legit, congrats to Charles, Alisa and the rest of the Buyside team.

Ebby Halliday finds success with Buyside

Ebby Halliday Real Estate, Inc. Reports Early Success Generating New Listings Following Brokerage-wide Launch of Buyside

“Ebby Halliday Real Estate Inc, one of the largest brokerage firms in the country, is reporting strong initial results after a brokerage-wide launch of Buyside this summer. Buyside, a data-driven marketing solution, aggregates buyer data from the brokerage’s own website and other major real estate portals, helping agents show prospective sellers the real-time demand for their home. After just over 60 days on the platform, Ebby Halliday is reporting positive results with Buyside, including hundreds of seller-leads generated and listings signed.”

I’ve always thought Buyside’s value proposition was simple yet extremely powerful.

Buyside now powers up to 40% of Real Trends top brokerages

Buyside Now Powering Nearly 40% of REAL Trends Top Ranked Brokerages

“After achieving record growth in the first half of 2018, Buyside has inked partnerships with nearly 40% of the REAL Trends Top 50 ranked brokerage firms. A pioneer in leveraging buyer data, Buyside represents a powerful new way for large brokerages to capture seller leads, win listings, and close more transaction sides in-house.”

What I love about Buyside is that it’s such a deceptively simple idea but can multiple benefits.

Buyside gets stacked

Industry Experts Join Buyside to Support Further Growth and National Expansion

“Charles Williams, Buyside’s Founder and CEO, has announced the expansion of the company’s senior leadership team with the addition of three tenured real estate industry veterans: Alissa Harper, VP, Growth; Dan McKeehan, VP, Operations; and Laura Scott, Chief Success Officer. Buyside is a data science & marketing company helping brokers transform real-time buyer data into leads, listings and profits.”

Here’s the team:

Alissa Harper, VP of Growth, joins Buyside from Market Leader, Trulia, and most recently, Zillow Group where she built and led the company’s Broker Engagement Team…

Dan McKeehan, VP of Operations, comes to Buyside from Dotloop where helped to scale the nationwide deployment of the platform, with large regional and national real estate franchise brands earning impressive user adoption levels with high customer satisfaction…

Laura Scott, Chief Success Officer is a veteran of Northwood Realty Services and Douglas Elliman, where she spent over a decade overseeing daily operations, driving strategy and recruiting effort…

Very impressive. This is about two thing I like the most, keeping talent in the industry and companies making the right investments. Congrats to Charles and the new team.

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