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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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…
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The Human Appraiser as a Macroeconomic Stabilizer
The real estate industry is currently caught in a technological crossfire. Every week, a new headline promises that…
Real Estate
Find information to help you advance your real estate career and gain new skills.
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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…
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10 Ways Real Estate Agents Are Using AI in 2026 (And How You Can, Too)
AI isn’t a distant promise anymore. It’s here, and smart agents are already using it to win more listings, nurture leads, and…
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.…
