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Real Estate Coaching Radio

Tim & Julie Harris

Real Estate Coaching Radio is the longest-running daily real estate podcast for real estate agents, brokers, and aspiring agents who want practical real estate training, professional real estate coaching, and real-world systems that work in any market.

Hosted by Tim Harris and Julie Harris, internationally recognized real estate coaches, best-selling authors, and top-ranked leaders at eXp Realty, this podcast delivers daily real estate coaching focused on listings, lead generation, scripts, mindset, and long-term business ownership.

This daily real estate podcast for agents covers:

Real estate training for new and experienced agents
Proven real estate coaching systems used by top producers
Lead generation strategies for real estate agents
Listing presentation scripts that convert sellers
Buyer conversion, negotiation, and objection handling
Real estate market updates, housing trends, and interest rates
Business planning, profitability, and wealth building for agents

Real Estate Coaching Radio is not motivational content.
It is daily real estate coaching for agents who want predictable income, stronger listings, and a real business — not just transactions.

If you are a real estate agent serious about mastering the fundamentals, increasing listings, and building a durable real estate business, this is the real estate podcast you should be listening to every day.

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Yesterday · 30 min
Listing Agents: The Seller Communication Plan That Keeps Listings Alive
Most listings don't fall apart overnight. The seller relationship usually starts breaking long before the listing expires. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris explain why consistent seller communication is one of the most important skills a listing agent can develop. They break down what happens when agents disappear after the listing presentation, why sellers begin resisting price conversations, and how proactive communication can prevent objections before they ever surface. You'll learn how to explain slow showing activity, use absorption rate and competing inventory to educate sellers, reposition a listing without making every conversation about lowering the price, and stay ahead of the questions sellers are likely to ask throughout the listing. You'll also hear how Tim and Julie used these same principles while prospecting expired listings, why some agents consistently kept sellers even after long market times, and why a structured 180-Day Seller Communication Plan can help real estate agents lead the transaction instead of avoiding uncomfortable conversations. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
Wednesday · 20 min
Real Estate Listings: Your Seller Is Fact-Checking Your Price With ChatGPT
Your seller may be fact-checking your listing price with ChatGPT after you leave the appointment. If AI gives them a different answer, you could lose the listing without ever finding out what happened. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris explain how AI is changing the listing appointment and why real estate agents need to stop treating automated pricing research as something they can simply argue against. The issue is not only whether AI gives the right answer. It is how confidently it can deliver an incomplete answer based on the prompt and information it receives. Tim and Julie break down why agents should assume sellers will check their pricing recommendations, how the wording of an AI prompt can influence the result, and why agents should consider giving sellers an objective prompt before the listing appointment. They also explain how to handle a seller who brings an AI-generated valuation into the conversation, why off-market sales and local market knowledge still matter, how nearby new construction and builder financing can affect resale pricing, and why buyers are often comparing payments rather than prices. You'll learn how to use AI without fighting it, how to strengthen your CMA with information the technology may have missed, how to build greater pricing conviction, and why staying focused on listings can create opportunities while competing agents become distracted. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
Tuesday · 24 min
Real Estate Business Plan: The One Number That Drives Listings
Most real estate agents are not running a business plan. They’re running on feelings. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris break down the one number that drives your entire day: the number of listings you need at all times to hit your goals. Once you know that number, you can reverse-engineer your daily contacts, conversations, appointments, and schedule with far more confidence and clarity. They also walk through The Real Plan, the interactive business and life planning system inside Premier Coaching, and explain why so many agents stay stressed, inconsistent, and reactive simply because they have never done the math. This is a direct conversation about listings, lead generation, structure, mindset, and why human-to-human communication still wins in today’s market. What you’ll learn in this episode is how to calculate the listing number that actually runs your business, why most agents create their own uncertainty by guessing, how a real estate business plan should connect to your personal life, and why serious agents need a system they can actually follow. If you want fewer surprises, more listings, and a clearer path forward in your real estate career, this episode will show you where to start. It also gives you a strong look at the kind of coaching, accountability, and business clarity available through Premier Coaching and Libertas at eXp Realty. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty. Income results are not typical. Individual results will vary.
Monday · 42 min
AI for Real Estate Agents: Adapt Now or Get Left Behind
AI isn’t the first technology people feared would destroy human skill. It probably won’t be the last. But real estate agents who refuse to adapt may be fighting the wrong battle. Tim and Julie Harris break down the real estate industry’s “immune response” to artificial intelligence and why the same fears surrounding AI have appeared throughout history with the printing press, calculators, spreadsheets, photography, electricity, and the internet. The bigger shift isn’t simply that AI can perform more tasks. It’s that information, digital marketing, content creation, analysis, and specialized knowledge are becoming easier for almost everyone to access. That changes what makes a real estate agent valuable. You’ll learn why relationships may become your strongest competitive moat, why trying to compete with AI on information alone is a losing strategy, how rapidly improving AI tools are changing real estate marketing, why human judgment still matters, and how agents can begin testing AI inside their businesses instead of debating it from the sidelines. The goal isn’t to become a technologist. The goal is to use technology to eliminate lower-value work so you can spend more time building relationships, communicating with clients, generating opportunities, and becoming the person people know, trust, and recommend. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
September 10 · 21 min
Real Estate Listings: Why Agents Shouldn’t Wait Until Spring
Most real estate agents mentally check out before the year is actually over. The agents who keep working may inherit the opportunities everyone else leaves behind. Tim and Julie Harris explain why the final stretch of the year can create serious opportunities with motivated buyers, sellers considering pulling their listings, expired listings, FSBOs, past clients, and agents’ centers of influence. They break down how to handle the common seller objection, “We want to wait until spring,” and why agents need to understand the seller’s real motivation before accepting that timeline. A seller planning to relocate, close on new construction, or move within a specific deadline may not have as much time as they think. You’ll learn why winter buyers can be more motivated, how to use local days-on-market data in seller conversations, how to requalify seller motivation, what questions uncover hidden concerns, why sellers need to prepare for both fast and slow sales, and how consistent prospecting now can build your first-quarter pipeline. Tim and Julie also explain why agents should complete their business planning before January instead of waiting until the new year to decide how they will generate leads and grow their business. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
September 9 · 53 min
Real Estate AI: What Agents Should Automate Now—and What They Should Never Delegate
AI is no longer just writing content for real estate agents. It can increasingly perform the work itself. That means agents need to decide what should be automated—and what absolutely needs to stay human. Tim and Julie Harris break down how AI agents can be structured like a real business team, with specialized roles handling CRM management, social media, transaction support, listing preparation, content workflows, community management, and other repetitive operational responsibilities. They also explain why automating more of the back office should not mean spending less time with people. It should mean the opposite. What you'll learn in this episode is how to think about building an AI team, which real estate tasks are easiest to delegate, how AI can support CRM and social media management, how agents can use AI for listing appointment preparation, why you do not need to automate everything at once, and which revenue-producing activities should remain firmly in the agent's hands. Tim and Julie also explain why relationships, referrals, prospecting, lead follow-up, presentations, negotiation, and face-to-face communication become even more important as technology gets better. For agents who want to grow without adding more administrative chaos, this episode offers a different model: let technology handle more of the repetitive work so you can spend more time doing the human work that creates listings and clients. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
September 8 · 36 min
Expired Listings: Why Sellers Fire Agents and How to Win the Listing
Your listing may not have failed when it expired. It may have failed the day the seller chose the wrong price and the agent was afraid to challenge it. Tim and Julie Harris break down the seller prequalification mistakes that cause listings to sit, sellers to become frustrated, and agents to lose inventory. You’ll hear a live-style coaching role play showing how to uncover the seller’s true motivation, determine whether they genuinely need to sell, discover their backup plan, discuss buying before selling, and ask the difficult questions most agents avoid. They also explain why consistent seller communication matters throughout the listing and how their 180-Day Seller Communication Plan helps agents stay in front of sellers instead of disappearing when showings slow down. The conversation then shifts to the growing expired listing opportunity and how agents can turn sellers who say they want to “wait until spring” into real listing conversations by digging deeper into what they actually want. Finally, Tim and Julie explain the strategy of building toward 10 active listings at all times, replacing the inventory that sells, and developing the lead generation, prequalification, pricing, presenting, negotiating, and closing skills required to build a more predictable listing-based real estate business. What you’ll learn includes how to identify real seller motivation, why overpriced listings are often a prequalification problem, how to uncover seller backup plans, how to communicate with listings over several months, how to approach expired sellers, how to handle seasonal objections, and why listing inventory creates leverage for serious real estate agents. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty. Income results are not typical. Individual results will vary.
September 3 · 24 min
Real Estate Business Planning: How Many Homes Do You Actually Need to Sell?
Your real estate calendar already tells a story about what you're likely to earn months from now. The problem is that most agents are busy running today's transactions without knowing exactly what tomorrow's business needs to produce. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris break down the Real Plan, a comprehensive business and life planning process that works backward from the life you want to the real estate production required to support it. You'll learn how to determine your actual personal and business overhead, separate required expenses from optional spending, account for taxes and brokerage costs, calculate the income your business truly needs to produce, and translate that number into an annual transaction goal. Tim and Julie also explain why many agents discover they need to sell fewer homes than they originally assumed, why comparing your production to another agent's numbers is meaningless, and how turning your annual transaction requirement into an active-listing target can give your real estate business more leverage and predictability. You'll also hear why your business should serve your personal goals instead of consuming your entire life, why making money doesn't need to be your passion for real estate to be worthwhile, and why now is the time to start creating your plan for 2027. The episode also explains how the Real Plan fits inside Premier Coaching and why knowing your actual numbers should come before creating another generic sales goal. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty. Income results are not typical. Individual results will vary.
September 2 · 22 min
New Construction: How Real Estate Agents Can Turn Builder Inventory Into Business
Builders have homes they need to sell. Real estate agents need transactions. The agents who connect those two problems may have one of the most overlooked opportunities in today's market. Tim and Julie Harris break down what's happening with new-construction inventory, including aggressive mortgage rate buydowns, closing-cost assistance, flex incentives and agent compensation being offered on select homes. But this episode isn't simply about selling new construction. You'll learn why monthly payment often matters more to buyers than purchase price, how resale sellers can compete with builder incentives, why agents need relationships with builder representatives, how old buyer leads may become opportunities again, and how one builder relationship can create buyer transactions, spec-home opportunities and resale seller referrals. Tim and Julie also explain why new construction should be included in your buyer presentation, how agents can find inventory outside the MLS, and how AI can help continuously research properties and opportunities for active buyers. Builders need buyers. Your job is to know the inventory, understand the incentives and become the agent who can connect the two. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty. Income results are not typical. Individual results will vary.
September 1 · 37 min
AI for Real Estate Agents: Stop Using It Like a Toy
Most real estate agents are using AI for the easiest possible tasks. The real opportunity is putting AI to work inside the actual operation of your real estate business. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris explain how AI can help agents manage repetitive tasks, organize CRM activity, prepare seller updates, analyze business information, monitor systems, support listing marketing, and stay accountable to their business plan. But there's an important line agents shouldn't cross. AI should create more time for human relationships, not replace them. The core job of a real estate professional remains the same: generate leads, prequalify, present, negotiate, and close. AI can support nearly everything surrounding those activities, but agents still need to talk with prospects, advise clients, handle objections, negotiate deals, and build genuine relationships. You'll learn how to think about dedicated AI responsibilities inside your business, where AI can save time, how it can support CRM and seller communication, why human interaction becomes even more valuable as technology improves, and how Tim and Julie are incorporating AI implementation into Premier Coaching through their AI Business Lab. This isn't about becoming an AI expert. It's about using technology to become more consistent, better prepared, and more productive at the things that have always mattered in real estate. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
August 31 · 22 min
Real Estate Lead Conversion: Why You Need More Appointments, Not More Leads
You probably don't need more real estate leads. You need more appointments. If your CRM keeps growing but your calendar doesn't, the problem may not be lead generation at all. It may be what happens after the lead arrives. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris break down why fast personal follow-up, strong prequalification, better questions, and consistent database conversations are often more valuable than simply buying another batch of leads. They explain why experienced agents can accidentally talk themselves out of appointments by giving away too much information too early, why delegating new-lead follow-up can damage conversion, and why a large database isn't valuable if you're not actually talking to the people inside it. You'll learn how to track the numbers that matter from conversations to appointments, agreements, contracts, and closings; why past clients and your center of influence require consistent follow-up; how to avoid hiding behind automation and drip campaigns; and why communication skills remain one of the strongest ways to differentiate yourself as a real estate professional. Before you decide you need more leads, find out what happened to the opportunities you already generated. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
August 27 · 22 min
Buyer Agreements: Stop Showing Homes Before You Earn the Commitment
Stop opening doors before buyers understand why they need you. If your buyer strategy starts with “Meet me at the house,” you may already be giving away the most important part of the relationship: your value. Tim and Julie Harris explain how real estate agents can move from being simple access providers to professional buyer advisors through a structured consultation, pre-qualification process and buyer presentation. You’ll hear how Tim and Julie structured the process with their own buyer agents, why the presentation should come before asking for the agreement, how to respond when a buyer hesitates to commit, and when a one-time showing agreement should — and should not — be used. What you'll learn is how to pre-qualify buyer leads, structure a professional buyer appointment, establish your unique value, explain compensation confidently, make the signed buyer agreement the natural conclusion of the presentation, handle predictable objections and differentiate yourself from competing agents. Tim and Julie also explain how Premier Coaching is building buyer and seller presentations, scripts, objection handlers and AI-powered tools designed to help agents execute these systems faster. They close with why agents should evaluate whether their coaching, technology and brokerage environment are helping them stay competitive as the industry evolves. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
August 26 · 32 min
AI for Real Estate Agents: Stop Buying Tools and Build Your Own Assistant
Most real estate agents have AI. Very few have actually built anything useful around it. If you're still using AI primarily for listing descriptions and basic content, you're missing the bigger opportunity. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris explain how to start treating AI like a real business assistant instead of another version of Google. They break down how agents can give AI access to the information that matters, including market data, presentations, scripts, objection handlers, database information, and everyday workflows. You'll learn how AI can help organize database prospecting, prepare contacts before calls, assist with CMAs and follow-up, summarize conversations, analyze inspection reports, support listing marketing, create single-property websites, and reduce dependence on expensive software tools. Tim and Julie also explain why agents should stop assuming every new AI widget deserves another monthly subscription. Before buying another tool, understand what it actually does, decide whether your business really needs it, and determine whether the AI you already have can accomplish the same outcome. The goal isn't to become a technology expert. The goal is to eliminate repetitive work so you can spend more time generating leads, talking to buyers and sellers, strengthening relationships, winning listings, and running a more productive real estate business. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
August 25 · 27 min
Real Estate Buyer Financing: The Programs Most Agents Never Explain
Buyers keep saying they’re waiting for mortgage rates to come down. But rates may not be the real problem. Monthly affordability is—and most real estate agents know far fewer ways to influence that payment than they should. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris break down financing strategies and programs agents should understand without trying to become loan officers. They explain why seller-paid buydowns can sometimes create more payment relief than a major price reduction, and how that knowledge can become a powerful advantage at listing appointments, expired listings and price-reduction conversations. They also discuss HUD homes, Good Neighbor Next Door, FHA financing, low-down-payment opportunities, state programs, VA and USDA loans, renovation financing and assumable FHA and VA mortgages. What you’ll learn is how to shift buyer conversations from interest rate to monthly payment, how to give sellers alternatives to another price cut, how to identify financing opportunities other agents overlook, what questions to add to every buyer consultation, and why deeper knowledge can make you significantly more valuable to both buyers and sellers. Your job isn’t to become the lender. Your job is to know which doors exist, recognize when one might apply and connect the client with someone qualified to open it. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
August 24 · 28 min
Real Estate Listings: Why Your Real Deadline Is Closer Than You Think
Your real estate year has less time left than the calendar makes it appear. And if you want listings that can actually close and pay this year, your true deadline arrives even sooner. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris break down why agents need to stop measuring their remaining opportunity in months and start measuring it in productive workdays. They explain why focused execution matters more than another CRM, marketing strategy, or shortcut—and why top-producing agents consistently do the uncomfortable work at a higher level. You'll learn how to identify activities you should stop doing, why past clients and centers of influence deserve more direct attention, how to separate true workdays from days off, and how to build an honest scoreboard using closed transactions, pendings, active listings, buyers, and your actual production goal. You'll also learn how to calculate the exact number of transactions you still need instead of relying on vague goals like “work harder” or “get more deals,” plus why your existing lead follow-up may contain some of the fastest opportunities available to you. Tim and Julie also discuss Premier Coaching's Real Plan, which works backward from your goals to create specific action steps rather than leaving you with another unstructured business objective. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
August 20 · 26 min
Listing Appointments: Your Seller Already Googled You and Priced the House
Your seller has already researched you. They may have already asked AI what their house is worth. That means the modern listing appointment begins long before you sit down at the kitchen table. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris explain how Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Zillow and other online sources are changing seller expectations before the appointment even begins. Sellers may research your reputation, compare you against other agents, study competing homes, develop their own pricing expectations and begin planning their next move before they ever speak with you. The solution is to combine thorough Seller Prequalification with a strong Pre-Listing Package. Learn about the seller before you arrive while allowing the seller to learn about you. Done correctly, this can turn the appointment from a traditional sales presentation into an informed conversation about what the seller actually needs. What you'll learn: how sellers are using AI to research agents, why your online reputation matters, how to uncover a seller's price before the appointment, how to identify AI-generated pricing objections, what property preparation tells you about motivation, how to discover where sellers are moving next, why you need to know your competition before you arrive, and how Seller Prequalification and your Pre-Listing Package work together to create a stronger listing presentation. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
August 19 · 21 min
Real Estate Price Reductions: What Agents Must Do After the Seller Says Yes
Your seller finally agreed to reduce the price. Now the real work starts. Changing the MLS and waiting for buyers is not a strategy. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris explain why a meaningful price adjustment should be treated like a second listing launch. You'll hear how to determine whether a reduction is large enough to change buyer behavior, why sellers need consistent communication before the pricing conversation happens, and what agents should do immediately after the new price goes live. Tim and Julie also break down how to contact previous showing agents, reactivate buyers who liked the property, use reverse offers when buyers haven't written contracts, reach buyers who now qualify at the new price, and completely relaunch the property's marketing. You'll also learn why the agents who succeed in the changing 2026 real estate market won't simply rely on automated marketing or AI. They'll combine technology with stronger communication, prospecting, negotiation, past-client relationships, and centers-of-influence marketing. For listing agents, the lesson is simple: don't reduce the price and wait. Reposition the property, relaunch the marketing, communicate the plan to the seller, and actively go find the buyer. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
August 18 · 33 min
Real Estate Lead Generation: Stop Buying Leads and Work Your Database
Most real estate agents will spend money chasing complete strangers while ignoring hundreds of people who already know them. Before you buy another lead, Tim and Julie Harris want you to look inside your phone. In this episode, Tim and Julie explain why past clients, friends, neighbors, vendors, community connections, and your broader center of influence should play a much bigger role in your real estate lead generation strategy. They break down why having a huge CRM means very little if you are not having actual conversations with the people inside it. You'll learn why Tim and Julie recommend starting with five real conversations per day, how to cycle through a manageable database consistently, how to expand your sphere through normal everyday activities, and why leading with useful information makes prospecting feel far less transactional. You'll also hear why AI may make human relationships more valuable rather than less valuable. AI can create reports, emails, social posts, and automated campaigns, but it cannot replace your reputation inside your community. The agents who learn to combine technology with genuine relationships may have a meaningful advantage as the industry continues changing. Most importantly, Tim and Julie explain how to remain visible as a real estate professional without turning every conversation into a sales pitch—and why people who know and trust you still need to be reminded that you want their referrals. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
August 17 · 25 min
Listing Agents: Stop Treating Today’s Market Like It’s 2021
The real estate market isn’t broken. Agents have simply forgotten what normal looks like. Pricing matters again. Negotiation matters again. Seller communication matters again. And agents who know how to actually manage a transaction have a major advantage. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris break down five realities buyers, sellers, and real estate agents need to understand about today’s market. Sellers receiving offers are averaging around two rather than the bidding-war numbers many became accustomed to, buyers are keeping inspection contingencies more often, and the majority of contracts discussed are still making it to closing. You’ll learn why overpricing a listing can destroy its strongest marketing window, how to handle sellers who insist on testing a higher price, why agents should counter low offers instead of killing deals emotionally, how renewed buyer leverage changes inspection and concession negotiations, and why proactive seller communication matters even more when days on market increase. You’ll also hear why this should be viewed as a skills market rather than a distressed market. When homes no longer sell automatically, professional pricing, lead generation, negotiation, communication, and transaction management become more valuable. For serious agents, that creates opportunity. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty.
August 13 · 31 min
Real Estate Lead Follow-Up: How to Stop Prospects From Ghosting You in 2026
Real estate prospects aren't always ghosting you. You may simply be giving them no reason to respond. And if you're giving up after one or two attempts, you're probably quitting before the real follow-up has even started. In this episode, Tim and Julie Harris break down why buyers and sellers stop responding and why the problem often begins with poor pre-qualification, slow lead response and generic follow-up. They explain how to establish a stronger connection during the first conversation, why new leads demand urgency, and why messages like "just checking in" are so easy to ignore. You'll learn how to structure texts that are easy to answer, leave voicemails that create a reason to call back, use pop-bys and face-to-face contact strategically, and build a multi-channel follow-up cadence without becoming repetitive. Tim and Julie also explain why buyer inquiries can uncover listing opportunities and challenge the industry's dependence on long-term CRM campaigns and automated follow-up. For real estate agents building a serious career in the 2026 market, the message is simple: technology can support sales, but it cannot replace the conversations, pre-qualification, prospecting and follow-up that create appointments and listings. Free training: HarrisRealEstateDaily.com Coaching: PremierCoaching.com Join eXp + Libertas: WhyLibertas.com/Harris Text Tim Direct: 512-758-0206 Opinions are my own and not the views of eXp Realty. Income results are not typical. Individual results will vary.

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