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Houston Properties Team Blog
Everything below is written for an agent deciding where to work, not for a client. Each post is filed under the question it answers and, where it speaks to one, the situation it is for.
The team
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A Business Plan for Producing Agents: Appointments, Follow-Up and Check-Ins
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Start with a yearly goal and divide it into closings, then into listing appointments. Add the follow-up that turns leads into those appointments, and put a regular check-in on the calendar to see what is working.
Who Covers Your Clients When You Take Time Off
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On Houston Properties Team, the Success Team keeps operations running and a teammate on your squad covers your clients while you are away. Texas rules still apply to paid showings by someone else.
What a Real Estate Team Agreement Covers: The Clauses to Read Before You Sign
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A team agreement sets the fee you pay the team leader per deal, what the team expects of you and what it provides. At Real Brokerage that fee is still paid after you cap.
What Happens to Your Clients, Database and License When Your Team Leader Steps Back
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In Texas, listing and buyer representation agreements are contracts with the broker, not the sales agent, and you may work only for your sponsoring broker. Start with who that broker is.
When to Hire a Transaction Coordinator or Join a Team That Has One
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Hire a transaction coordinator when steady closings leave file deadlines competing with appointments. Decide what to hand over first, because in Texas contract review stays with a license holder.
How to Learn the Skills to Build and Lead a Real Estate Team
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You learn to lead a team in a set order: start once your production outgrows you, hand off admin work first, have leads before you recruit, then practice coaching each agent on their own terms.
Signs It Is Time to Change Brokerages: A Self-Check Before You Move
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Change brokerages when you can name the gap, whether it is support, mentorship or a tool stack that eats your week, and the new office closes it. In Mike DelPrete's interviews, money and technology were the baseline, not the reason agents left.
What a Brokerage Merger, Acquisition or Leadership Change Means for Agents and Teams
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Staying can make sense if you trust the new leadership and your business runs on your own sphere. Watch what integration does to your split, your required tools and your lead source before you decide.
What TREC Requires After a Team Changes Sponsoring Broker
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Once TREC shows the change as effective, your team may update its IABS and advertise under the new broker, which registers your team name; signs and promotional items show that broker's name at least half as large.
Help Is a Two-Way Street: Who Got Helped, and With What?
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Four members, and the thing each one was handed: a mentor and the systems for Gaby Aranda-Schwob, marketing and the back office for Brad Evans, leads and appointments for Brittney Coyle, a first year for Holly Hernandez.
What Actually Happens Inside a Squad?
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Thirty minutes a week, run by an agent who still sells. You say a call number out loud, and seven days later somebody asks what came of it. Brittney Coyle runs one of the five, and she came up through leases.
What Happens at 8:30 Every Weekday Morning Here?
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Every weekday at 8:30 the whole team is in the same meeting. Wins get named out loud with the agent who earned them, then anyone stuck on a file says so and somebody picks it up before the meeting ends.
Who Do I Call When a Deal Goes Sideways?
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Two names, and they are the same two every time: Sibel Caliskanlar Cope and Alexis Ruiz-Ney. The Concierge Directors take the call and route it to whichever of the six success team functions owns the problem.
How to Choose a Real Estate Team in Houston (2026)
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Ask every Houston team the same five questions: how many leads you get, who books your appointments, what the split covers, who does your paperwork, and what happens to your clients if you leave.
Real Brokerage
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What a Texas Brokerage Owner Carries for E&O, Compliance and Supervision
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A Texas brokerage owner answers for the designated broker seat, proof of E&O in some ownership setups, sponsored agents' ads and conduct, current written policies, broker CE and at least four years of transaction records.
What Real REMAX Group Changes for RE/MAX Agents and Franchisees, and When
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Real completed its purchase of RE/MAX Holdings in August 2026. The companies say the REMAX brand, franchise model and broker/owner model stay, and Real's platform and services are offered on an opt-in basis.
Sponsorship
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What a Sponsor Who Knows AI Takes Off Your Week
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Ask a sponsor what comes off your week. On Houston Properties Team, three of its eighteen Claude skills take scrolling for a reason to call, the night-before research and typing up meeting notes, and the conversation with your client stays with you.
How to Pick a Real Brokerage Sponsor in Houston: 7 Questions
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Sponsorship costs a Houston agent nothing, and it is not a choice to count on remaking, so pick on evidence. Seven questions to ask every sponsor, and what a usable answer to each one sounds like.
