A selection of articles, interviews and media coverage featuring Stefan Swanepoel over the past decade.
Widely regarded as a steward of industry insight, Mr. Swanepoel has produced an extensive body of research and publications. Over his career, Mr. Swanepoel has written more than 55 books and reports, establishing him as one of the most published voices in U.S. residential real estate.
For more than 40 years, Stefan Swanepoel, founder and Executive Chairman of T3 Sixty, has built companies, guided strategy, authored multiple books, and studied leadership patterns across global markets. In an era of information abundance and with AI’s growing dominance, he urges leaders to retain an instinct for verification. “Accepting content without questioning it is […]
In an era when nearly 60% of Americans say they regularly see misinformation in online news, one individual has prioritized journalistic integrity over sensationalism, offering the residential real estate brokerage industry a fact-based and trusted source of information. Stefan Swanepoel, an immigrant from South Africa who moved to San Diego in 1994, has spent the […]
His influence has not gone unnoticed. Inman News once called him real estate’s most influential “guru,” while his bestseller “Surviving Your Serengeti” reached multiple bestseller lists, such as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Yet, awards are not what define him. What colleagues most often say is simpler: he is the “integrity […]
The lasting influence of the Swanepoel Trends Report is due in large part to its creator, Stefan Swanepoel, one of the most influential minds in residential real estate. With over 50 books and reports to his name, Swanepoel has helped industry leaders interpret change and anticipate disruption for more than four decades.
The Kauaʻi North Shore Community Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 2012, has made significant changes to its name, officers and staff. The Foundation’s board unanimously elected Stefan Swanepoel as its new president, Louis LaFratta as vice president, April McGinnis as treasurer and Mary Paterson as secretary.
Swanepoel, founder and executive chairman of the T3 Sixty real estate consultancy, announced plans this week to launch Real Estate News this fall, promising a “factual, objective, relevant, concise, to-the-point” news source for the residential real estate brokerage industry, as he explained during a webcast about the site.
Real estate giants are getting even bigger. In 2021, the nation’s largest real estate firms accounted for 61.2% of the total sales for the year, representing the largest year-over-year jump on record, according to the newly released 2022 Real Estate Almanac by T3 Sixty, a real estate consulting firm.
The previous 12 months and the next 12 months will bring more significant shifts in leadership in the residential real estate brokerage industry than ever before. The CEO posts — at high-profile places like Coldwell Banker, RE/MAX, and Keller Williams, to name a few — are being vacated mostly by Baby Boomers and executives with […]
Although real estate struggles with fragmentation, its biggest issue is the same one many legacy industries grapple with: applying and updating long-entrenched processes. Implementing the needed technology can be a challenge, especially as independent agents and workers in general play bigger roles in these legacy industries.
Startups must let go of the management reins as they accelerate toward their desired destination by building specially designed teams with smaller-than-normal numbers. The result yields less frazzled managers and staff members who are focused on carrying out the tasks at hand. Here are some thoughts on how teams differ, what makes them tick, and […]
There are many cultures, tribes, nations, and languages across the world. As someone who has lived in four countries and visited more than 40, I can tell you we’re all very different people. Obviously, we speak distinctively different languages, pray to different gods, and eat dissimilar foods, but those are the obvious, surface-level differences we […]
The most influential real estate industry guru, Stefan Swanepoel is the CEO and chairman of the Swanepoel T3 Group, the publisher of industry benchmarkers like the Swanepoel Trends Report, SP200 and T3 Tech Guide. As editor-in-chief of many of his reports, he analyzes hundreds of the real estate industry’s most innovative businesses, individuals and market […]
There were many reasons for the company’s success throughout the years, but one important factor was the use of storytelling to elevate the personal brand behind it. Storytelling isn’t the cornerstone of leadership, but it often enables leaders to connect with an audience in ways normal forms of communication fall short. CEOs like Kelleher, Richard […]
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“Humility is the difference between confidence and arrogance.”