Real Trends: Going Pro

Relocation and Real Estate Professionals who’ve made the choice to drill down their business to the narrow niche of working exclusively with pro athletes. Original Real Trends Article (Pages 30-35 click here)
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Relocation and Real Estate Professionals who’ve made the choice to drill down their business to the narrow niche of working exclusively with pro athletes. Original Real Trends Article (Pages 30-35 click here)
Read morePlayers are traded, dropped and picked back up again with the same swift, unsentimental nature of moving pawns in a chess match. On top of the pressures of joining a new squad, players are tasked with moving their entire lives…
Read moreHow to Succeed with a Marketing Budget of $0 It sounds too good to be true, and yet many companies pull it off. How? By thinking differently about who does the marketing. Jason Feifer and Brittant Shoot TEN YEARS AGO, Chris…
Read moreChris Dingman, president of the Dingman Group, a Newport Beach company that relocates 1,000 athletes and coaches each year, said that between the Rams’ move from St. Louis and team expansions, the real estate niche is experiencing an “unprecedented time.”…
Read moreWHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM RELOCATING ATHLETES? Such exacting requirements and small margins for error can help keep RMCs that work with athletes at the top of their game. It forces providers to reconsider what is possible, taking an unvarnished…
Read moreYou already know that pro athletes aren’t like us in lots of ways. But just like regular folks, they need a place to live during the season, and when they get traded or sign with a new team, they face…
Read moreThe NBA world turned upside down at last Thursday’s trade deadline, with most of the league making moves. When something like that happens, each player involved is dealing with some amount of upheavel — it’s not like executing trades in…
Read moreWASHINGTON, DC – It’s been weeks since Iman Shumpert found himself headed to the Cavaliers from his longtime home in New York and there’s a few things he still hasn’t figured out. Among the most important for anyone who followed…
Read more(Bloomberg) — Nine percent of the National Basketball Association’s 450 players are on the move, which means Chris Dingman is a very busy man. “It’s an opportunity,” Dingman, whose business specializes in professional athlete relocation, said in a telephone interview.…
Read moreProfessional athletes are renowned for buying multimillion-dollar mansions in cosmopolitan playgrounds like Miami and Vegas. Less visible are the scores of players who settle down near their childhood homes.
Read moreSan Diego Padres pitcher Tyson Ross and his brother, Padres farmhand Joe Ross, have sold their home in Oakland for $56,000 more than their $905,000 asking price. (Redfin | Inset: Getty Images)
Read moreBY KATHY A. MCDONALD LA’s sports stars are the city’s latest real estate superheroes. Besides a pool with expansive views, this $4.2 million Sunset Plaza aerie owned by ex-SF Giant Barry Zito offers an exact replica of a MLB pitcher’s…
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