Spyglass Realty Newsroom
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Spyglass Realty’s Ryan Rodenbeck Joins the 2025 ABoR & Unlock MLS Board of Directors
The Austin Board of Realtors (ABoR) and Unlock MLS proudly announce the election of Ryan Rodenbeck, CEO and Broker of Spyglass Realty, as one of the newly elected members of the 2025 Board of Directors.
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Spyglass Realty Named a Top Workplace and Best Place to Work in Austin for 2024
Spyglass Realty has been recognized as one of Austin’s best workplaces, earning two prestigious awards in 2024. These awards highlight Spyglass Realty’s commitment to company culture, employee satisfaction, and workplace excellence, reinforcing its reputation as a top real estate brokerage in the Greater Austin area.
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Visionary Leader Ryan Rodenbeck Brings Spyglass Realty to Real
Spyglass Realty, under Ryan Rodenbeck’s visionary leadership, epitomizes what it means to be both innovative and deeply rooted in service. Ryan’s early adoption of technology, paired with a relentless focus on empowering experienced agents, has transformed the way real estate is done.
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Austin's Spyglass joins Real under Private Label model
Spyglass comes aboard via the Private Label program, which gives indies access to Real’s internal software and cascading efficiencies while sustaining their existing consumer-facing brand.
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Visionary Leader Ryan Rodenbeck Brings Spyglass Realty to Real
Visionary leader and founder of #RealtyHack Ryan Rodenbeck brings Spyglass Realty to Real, nearly doubling Real’s agent count in Austin.
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Ryan Rodenbeck on why buyer rep agreements just aren't that hard
The Texas-based Spyglass Realty broker-owner spoke to Inman ahead of Austin Connect on Oct. 9, where he'll emphasize the importance of agent training and buyer representation agreements.
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Harnessing Transparency and Technology for Success
Ryan Rodenbeck, owner of Texas LeadingRE-affiliate Spyglass Realty shares insights into coaching his team, leveraging technology, recruitment strategies and more.
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Austin realtors share how market could change after national realtor settlement
After changes to Realtor commission policies were announced last week, Austin realtors said local effects might not be as sweeping as in other parts of the country.
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The ‘Feeding Frenzy’ for Texas Homes Is Over—For Now
Before the state becomes a migration hotspot again, cash buyers have the upper hand in the slowing market.
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Why right now is not a good time for many home sellers in Austin
There’s a window of opportunity for homebuyers right now, according an expert, and it means many home sellers are at a major disadvantage.
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Real estate experts' hot housing takes of 2023
We checked in with the experts for their crystal ball predictions of 2023.
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Austin's Spyglass Realty keeps focus on teamwork, training and support
Spyglass Realty ranks No. 1 among small employers in the American-Statesman's 2022 Top Workplaces of Greater Austin project.
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Austin's best employers adapt, evolve to get the most from their teams
The coronavirus pandemic and shifting economic conditions meant finding new ways for Austin businesses to get things done.
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Changing housing market leaves buyers wondering why they signed so much for their home only days, months ago
Builders are writing confusing contracts and pushing completion dates. Our CEO, Ryan Rodenbeck, shares some unfair practices his clients have faced and how you can stay informed.
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Is it a buyer’s market? How increasing interest rates impact the Austin housing market
One local realty company said folks who bought at the top of Austin's housing market earlier this year or even earlier now find themselves trapped in confusing contracts with their builders.
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Some buyers of new Austin homes are dropping out of contracts
Austin’s once red-hot housing market might be cooling off. New real estate projections point to a large shift in the market by next summer.
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Is it a buyer’s market? How increasing interest rates impact the Austin housing market
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday in an effort to fight inflation. As analysts expected, the rates increased by another three-quarter point rate hike—its third in a row. Mortgage rates were above 6% in anticipation of the rate increase.
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How Austin's Best Places to Work retain, attract employees during the Great Resignation
Some help their people put a down payment on property. One bought a vacation home in Utah for employees to use. And almost all of them have admitted to giving their team as much of a flexible schedule and remote-work option as possible.
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Austin's midyear housing outlook
Sharp increases in mortgage rates and an unaffordable housing market have left homebuyers scratching their heads, wondering if they should continue their search or press pause.
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Data: Down payments take longer to save for Texas first-time home buyers with student debt.
New data shows how looming college debt can impact first-time homebuyers in Texas.
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Austin Business Journal's Best Places to Work in Austin 2022
The 2022 ABJ lists featuring Austin's Best Places to Work is open to any company in the five-county coverage area which includes Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop and Caldwell counties with Spyglass Realty on the #2 spot for their size category.
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Austin's Best Places to Work Ranked
Amid titanic shifts in how we live and work — from widespread adoption of working from home to new ways of supporting essential workers — these 71 companies.
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Hot Austin market saw an increase in housing inventory for June
That prompted broker and owner of Spyglass Realty Ryan Rodenbeck to post on social media a video where he asks, "are we seeing a slowdown in the Austin real estate.
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Inman Handbook on team structures today
Learn about a variety of team models, and find out which one — or which combination — might be right for you.
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Austin housing outlook: Some see signs of slowdown, others call this the new normal
Buyer demand in the first half of 2021 stretched Austin’s housing market thin. Sales prices hit record highs, inventory
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Austin's Best Places to Work revealed for 2021
Bouldin Creek has old homes, fun shops and a laid-back vibe. It's also right in the heart of one of America's buzziest cities
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Inman Handbook on team structures today
Sales commissions are still the norm in real estate, but the industry is also in the midst of a rapid evolution when it comes to agent pay
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Real Estate Roundup: Welker Properties enters Austin with acquisition of SoCo’s Cliff House
Dallas-based real estate development company Welker Properties has acquired Cliff House, an 18-unit apartment complex south of downtown.
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America’s hottest neighborhoods: Bouldin Creek in Austin, Texas
Bouldin Creek has old homes, fun shops and a laid-back vibe. It's also right in the heart of one of America's buzziest cities
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How agents can bring home the bacon in 2022
Sales commissions are still the norm in real estate, but the industry is also in the midst of a rapid evolution when it comes to agent pay
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