Steve Murray has 46 years experience in the residential brokerage industry. He is a Senior Advisor to HW Media and Co-Founder of REAL Trends. Murray is a Partner in REAL Trends Consulting, which is the leading firm in residential brokerage throughout the U.S. and Canada with specialties in valuation, mergers and acquisitions, business analytics and senior management consulting. REAL Trends Consulting has completed over 4,200 client assignments for brokerage firms in the last 36 years and has closed over 900 brokerage mergers and acquisitions with aggregate value exceeding $13 billion.Murray speaks frequently at industry conferences on trends in the housing and residential brokerage industries and has assisted national, regional and local real estate companies in strategic and business planning.Specialties: Valuations, mergers and acquisitions among residential brokerage companiesBrokerage analytics on profit and loss, brokerage metrics, commission plan analysis and other areas of brokerage performance