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            <title>How to post one property to 10 portals without entering it ten times</title>
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            <description>Manual posting to portals eats days. The difference between manual, file feeds and a direct connection, what happens when the price changes, and what to ask before you choose.</description>
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            <title>Why enquiries go cold and what happens in the first hour</title>
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            <description>Buyers write to several agencies at once. The first reply wins disproportionately. Where enquiries get lost and what to measure so they stop getting lost.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>AI in the agency: what works today and what does not yet</title>
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            <description>Which AI features genuinely save a broker time, which sound good and do nothing, and where a human stays mandatory.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>Comparative market analysis: how to justify the price to the seller</title>
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            <description>The owner wants 15% more. How a CMA is built from comparable sales, which adjustments to make, and how to present it so the conversation runs on data.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>How to track your team’s work without breathing down anyone’s neck</title>
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            <description>Which four numbers show how a broker is doing, why call volume is not one of them, and how the report stops being a weekly interrogation.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>One property in five agencies: why that lowers the price</title>
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            <description>Owners think five agencies mean five times the buyers. What the buyer actually sees, what the portals do, and why the price starts sliding.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>How much software for a real estate agency costs in Bulgaria</title>
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            <description>The advertised per-broker price is only the start. Which costs appear later, how to work out the first-year total, and what to get in writing before you sign.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>Exclusive agreements: why owners resist and what helps</title>
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            <description>Owners hear &quot;exclusive&quot; and understand &quot;locked in with you&quot;. What their real fears are, what removes them, and what you have to commit to in return.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>A listing description that does not read like every other one</title>
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            <description>Why &quot;cosy apartment in a communicative area&quot; says nothing, what the buyer looks for in the first two lines, and which words to drop.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>Excel or a system: when an agency outgrows spreadsheets</title>
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            <description>A spreadsheet holds data but does not connect it or remind you. The five signs you have outgrown it, what changes afterwards, and how the move actually goes.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>Commission: how to state it and how to defend it</title>
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            <description>When to name the figure, why a percentage sounds cheaper than a sum, what a discount does to your other clients, and how to answer &quot;others charge less&quot;.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>How to photograph a property so it sells</title>
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            <description>Photos decide whether a listing gets opened. Preparing the home, light, the order of shots, common mistakes, and what AI staging does for an empty property.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>What the agency keeps when a broker leaves</title>
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            <description>Clients in a personal phone, history in someone’s head, listings under their name. What gets lost on departure and what is settled in advance.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>Which documents to ask the owner for at the very start</title>
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            <description>Which documents to request when the agency agreement is signed, why they are gathered early, and what stops a deal at the notary when they are not in order.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>New build: what is different about selling off plan</title>
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            <description>Construction stages and staged payments, what buyers ask, the risks that must be stated upfront, and how to run a building with eighty units.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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            <title>Lettings or sales: is it worth an agency doing both</title>
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            <description>Lettings pay little and take a lot, but they fill the sales funnel. When they are worth it, how to make them bearable, and why they are counted separately.</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
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