Best Practices with Garron Selliken

Real estate agents and consumers take many of today’s online search tools for granted. But back in the early 2000’s, before Google Maps and Zillow, there were few solutions for harnessing the power of the web. So Garron Selliken decided to take the initiative. An agent based in Portland, Oregon, Garron developed a set of tools that eventually became Homequest, one of the first map-based technology platforms for real estate. Today, Garron is bringing his problem-solving mindset and love of tech to M Realty, one of Portland’s premier real estate companies. Unlike most brokerages, M Realty offers its agents a a full in-house marketing platform, supporting their relationship building and listing promotion from start to finish with a dedicated team of professionals. And Garron’s approach seems to be working: the company currently supports 140 agents, and continues to grow quickly. In this interview, Garron tells us how his experience as both an agent and a developer has helped him craft the perfect practice for his team, and explains why you don’t have to go to extraordinary lengths to give clients an extraordinary experience.