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The Real Brokerage founder Tamir Poleg and his executive team walked away with Inman Innovator Award's highest honor, thanks to their amazing strides in tech and recruiting.

Like so many of its peers in proptech, The Real Brokerage has plowed into artificial intelligence, announcing in May its own GPT integration, or Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, the same type of tech powering the well-known ChatGPT. The brokerage is calling its bot Leo.

Real estate is woven into the fabric of the Banipla family. Growing up, Gary Banipal watched his father, Sunny, create memories for people as a leading Calgary real estate agent. For the past 20 years, Sunny has ranked among the top Calgary agents while also establishing strategic relationships with city developers and builders to serve as a more comprehensive resource for his clients. 

A business plan is a critical document for any entrepreneur. And as an agent, that’s you! Think - would you begin anything in your life without a plan? However, creating this plan can be daunting, especially for those in the real estate industry who are focused on closing deals and generating revenue.

Referrals are a powerful tool in the real estate industry, arguably the most powerful. Without them - you rely solely on marketing yourself. In an industry based on trust and respect, there is no better channel to hear it from than your own clients. 

The McLean-based group, led by Peggy Lyn and Chris Speicher, includes 15 agents and has been one of Long & Foster’s top-producing firms, counting more than 100 years of combined real estate experience and $1 billion in career sales. Across 2022, the Speicher Group said it closed more than 200 real estate transactions valued at more than $100 million.