This week at Keller Williams’ Family Reunion, Gary Keller forecast significant market headwinds in 2025. How can you prepare — and flourish — no matter what happens next?
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Each week on The Download, Inman’s Christy Murdock takes a deeper look at the top-read stories of the week to give you what you’ll need to meet Monday head-on. This week: This week at Keller Williams’ Family Reunion, Gary Keller forecast significant market headwinds in 2025. How can you prepare — and flourish — no matter what happens next?
At January’s Inman Connect New York, Joe Rath, senior director of brokerage operations and head of industry relations at Redfin, said that, according to Redfin’s annual survey, 71 percent of agents didn’t do any deals in 2024. At the same time, the share of survey respondents who said they’d recommend a career in real estate hit an all-time low last year.
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At last week’s Keller Williams Family Reunion, Gary Keller echoed a vision of a tough market, both currently and for the foreseeable future.
“It’s not getting progressively better right now, and what’s interesting is that people keep expecting it to get progressively better,” he added. “If you go back and look at history, when you get into a trough like this, it typically takes three to four years to get out of it.”
“So if you were hoping we were kind of going to come on stage today and go, ‘It’s over. It’s all back. The easy deals are back,’ That’s not true,” he added….