Sam DeBord, Author at Inman

Sam DeBord

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Sam DeBord is a Managing Broker with Coldwell Banker Danforth, and serves on the Washington REALTORS® Board of Directors. His team sells homes across the Greater Seattle metro including condos, houses, houseboats, waterfront and luxury estates. Twit... Read more

Sam DeBord is a Managing Broker with Coldwell Banker Danforth, and serves on the Washington REALTORS® Board of Directors. His team sells homes across the Greater Seattle metro including condos, houses, houseboats, waterfront and luxury estates. Twitter: @SEATTLEHOMEoCOM Co-Owner, SeattleHome.com and SeattleCondo.com.

Sam DeBord is a managing broker of Seattle Homes Group, with Coldwell Banker Danforth. He is a Director for Seattle King County REALTORS® and WA REALTORS®. With a background in management consulting and I.T development, his team is focused on lead generation through a network of websites, blogs, and social media platforms. Sam is a writer who contributes to Inman News, REALTOR@ Magazine, Coldwell Banker Blue Matter, Geek Estate, Realtor.com, RE Magazine, GoDaddy, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and other outlets.

Sam's Stories

Opinion

Real estate roundup: Big money, bad data, bot bites dog

Sam DeBord’s take on industry news, in case you missed it

Oct 18

Opinion

Inman Connect San Francisco’s swan song was full of fear and discipline

The kind of ingenuity displayed at ICSF is what will lead the winners into the industry's next phase

Jul 25

Does a Compass lie? Finding true north in real estate

Why will a consumer or agent choose to work with you this year, in five years or in 10 years?

Jun 27

Opinion

Who’s lobbying NAR? Zillow, dues dollars and the DOJ

Let’s add some context to the NAR-HAR back-and-forth and talk about recent Zillow happenings

May 11

Opinion

This week in RE: the NAR logo, Zillow’s iBuyer status and DocuSign’s IPO

Here's what you may have missed ...

Apr 19

Opinion

Does real estate’s leadership need a technology therapist?

Don’t succumb to the technology myopia that’s plaguing the industry's brokerage business leaders

Mar 26

Transparency will radically alter the real estate industry’s leadership

For those relying on traditional tactics to stay in power, the outlook is bleak

Feb 19

Opinion

Decoding the broker/MLS cold war on consolidation

Market momentum has created two paths forward for MLSs, and understanding them will determine the winners

Jan 22

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