McKissock Blog
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Featured
Keep up on the latest industry trends and best practices for real estate professionals.
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2026 Housing Market Forecast: The Great Recalibration
Summary of Key 2026 Trends Setting the Stage: What 2025 Changed In my 2025 forecast, I described the…
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10 Prospecting Tips to Generate More Real Estate Leads
As a new agent, you can’t count only on referrals, word-of-mouth, and marketing and promotional efforts. To get…
Appraisal
Find information to help you advance your appraiser career and gain new skills.
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New
UAD 3.6 Answer Headquarters: The Appendices
The residential appraisal industry is in the middle of one of its biggest shifts in decades. The Uniform…
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Getting Started with AI for Appraisers
If you’ve been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence lately and wondering what it means for your appraisal…
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How Much Does It Cost to Become a Real Estate Appraiser?
Interested in becoming a real estate appraiser? Whether you’re drawn to valuing residential homes or complex commercial properties,…
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April 2026 Housing Insights: A Market Searching for Stability
The spring housing market was expected to bring clarity and momentum. Instead, April has delivered a more complicated…
Real Estate
Find information to help you advance your real estate career and gain new skills.
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The real estate agent’s summer survival guide: 5 ways to stay ahead when business gets busy
Summer is often one of the busiest times of the year for real estate agents. Listings move quickly,…
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The “roast my listing” trend reveals a bigger problem in real estate
If you’ve seen the “roast my listing” posts making the rounds online, you already know how quickly buyers will call…
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Switching brokerages: how to choose a real estate broker-owner for real growth
If you’ve been in real estate for a few years, you might be starting to feel like your current brokerage isn’t giving you the…
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How to use AI as a property manager: Templates and workflows to save hours every week
You might have heard the hype about artificial intelligence taking over the real estate industry. But let’s be clear: AI…
Professional Engineering
Find information to help you advance your real estate career and gain new skills.
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Heat Exchanger Fundamentals: Shell-and-Tube Selection for Process Engineers
If you’ve worked in chemical processing, pharmaceuticals, food manufacturing, energy production, or just about any heavy industry, you’ve…
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Value Engineering vs. Value Erosion: Ethical Guardrails for Cost Cuts
Cost pressures are a constant in modern engineering projects. But when does trimming the budget cross the line…
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Engineering Career Advancement: Technical Ladder vs. Management Track
Every professional engineer eventually reaches a critical crossroads. You likely spent the early years of your career developing…
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Low-Carbon Concrete Mixes: Performance, Specs, and Submittals
The construction industry is under increasing pressure to reduce its environmental footprint, and concrete—a material integral to modern…
Land Surveyor
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Construction Staking Disputes: Scope, Responsibility, and Documentation That Protects Surveyors
Construction staking looks straightforward on paper: you get the plans, you set the stakes, the crew builds the…
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Utility Mapping for Surveyors: A Guide to SUE and ASCE 38-22
Utility mapping involves precisely identifying and digitally recording the locations of underground utilities. These maps provide a complete…
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Drone Mapping Accuracy: GCPs, RTK/PPK, and Explaining Tolerances
Clients often hear the word “drone” and assume near-perfect accuracy. High-resolution 3D models and vivid orthomosaics make the…
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Using Historical Aerials and GIS Layers for Boundary Research
The wealth of digital information available today presents both an opportunity and a challenge for professional land surveyors.…
