So you’ve had to have been sleeping under a rock for the past couple of years to not have heard the decline in the real estate market. Prices are plummeting. Volume is way down. Agents are getting out of the business. Brokerages are downsizing or closing.

But with any down economy or industry, there are opportunities abound if you just play your cards right. A lot of brokerages are taking a “wait and see” approach to the market and their business. [...]

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It has been a rough couple of years in the real estate industry but there are plenty of brokerages that are still kicking and doing business. Now the landscape has definitely changed but brokerages that are not only surviving but thriving in this less than stellar real estate environment have one thing in common…they get it.

Take River City Real Estate for example. A three-office brokerage on the outskirts of Saint Louis would probably not be the type of brokerage you [...]

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