An industry-centric podcast, Keys to Real Estate features in-depth conversations for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of the real estate ecosystem. Listeners can take charge of their self-learning in business-critical information and key topics that are central to thriving under the ever-changing demands placed on businesses today. Our long-form conversations featuring today’s newsmakers and thought-leaders, allow listeners to engage with each episode at the time and place of their choosing.
How Better Education Strengthens the Transaction - Susan Nicolson | S3E33
In Part 2 of our discussion with Arizona Department of Real Estate Commissioner Susan Nicolson, she explains how Arizona is using broader, more practical education to raise the quality of real estate agents and strengthen the marketplace as a whole. The conversation covers education around deed fraud, water, wildfire, insurability and fair housing, efforts to improve the quality of CE itself and the broader need for better cybersecurity and secure communications across the real estate transaction.
8 Oct 2026
What Proactive Regulation Looks Like in Practice - Susan Nicolson | S3E32
Arizona Department of Real Estate Commissioner Susan Nicolson discusses what proactive regulation can look like – from breaking down agency silos to working across government and industry to solving problems before consumers are harmed. The conversation focuses particularly on Arizona’s multifaceted approach to deed fraud, including the state’s new Early Real Estate Sales Alert System and the role title and escrow professionals can play in prevention.
1 Oct 2026
What’s Really Keeping the Housing Market Stuck? - Nick Friedman | S3E31
Mary and Nick shift to existing homeowners and move-up buyers, beginning with the continued lock-in effect created by pandemic-era mortgage rates. They discuss whether there is a rate that could bring more homeowners back into the market, the life circumstances that are already overcoming rate lock-in and the greater flexibility existing homeowners have because of accumulated equity. The conversation touches on why accessing that equity before selling has become more important, the difficulty of home-sale contingencies in the current market and “Buy Before You Sell” as one tool for addressing that problem. The discussion then moves to one of the more surprising findings in the HomeLight report: loan officers say property-related problems – including inspection, title, zoning and property-condition issues – are causing more active purchase loans to fail than financing issues such as debt-to-income surprises or appraisal gaps. They close with a broader discussion of economic uncertainty, consumer hesitation, AI/job anxiety and what Nick hopes lenders and the housing market will look like by next summer.
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