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Updater raises $45M, plans to acquire 2 companies

Updater, whose platform helps real estate agents streamline the moving process for clients, has closed a $45 million funding round and inked agreements to acquire two companies. The startup — which allows real estate agents to help their customers transfer utilities, update accounts and records and forward mail, among other tasks — has entered into agreements to […]

Zillow Group acquires builder platform New Home Feed

If new construction builders were feeling a little bit left out of the Zillow Group club, they’ve just been extended an invitation. Today, Zillow Group announced the acquisition of New Home Feed, “a streamlined listing management technology that allows builders to input, manage and syndicate their listings across the web.” Founded in 2009, New Home […]

Live blog: Realogy’s startup competition

15 startups are presenting at Realogy’s annual startup competition, Realogy FWD Summit. Follow our live updates. Update: 11:30 a.m. EST Agent Inbox is “messaging platform that connects brokers, agents and consumers in one place, to communicate around listing data.” Part of the goal is to take text messages and emails out of agent-to-agent communications to […]

Got $2,000 and a knack for historic rehabs? Here’s a house for you

Maybe you’ve always dreamed of winning the lottery and buying a mansion of your own, but in reality, you won a couple grand on a scratcher. Or maybe you have a little bit of that tax returned still saved up. What can you buy for a meager $2,000? How about this four-unit home in Toledo, […]

Realogy buddies up to Zillow, undercutting boycott

Real estate giant Realogy has extended a listing feed agreement with Zillow Group, tacking on a provision that allows its New York City brokerages to feed listings directly to NYC listing portal StreetEasy. The deal marks a setback for an NYC industry boycott of StreetEasy by providing a way for The Corcoran Group, Citi Habitats […]

What Trump’s DACA repeal could mean for real estate

There are about 800,000 “Dreamers” in the United States — undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children. They have jobs, own homes and are enrolled in colleges and universities. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protections gave these immigrants the opportunity to apply for temporary legal status in two-year increments. However, […]

Talking in pictures: How Snapchat changed how we build our personal brand

Snapchat was the first mobile messaging app that allowed us to communicate screen-to-screen, showing our face and sharing our stories in real time. Chelsea Peitz, director of marketing for Fidelity National Title in Phoenix, says that apps like Snapchat have turned our phones into free branding platforms with built-in broadcast networks. Watch Peitz dive deeper […]

The new luxury playbook for surviving real estate’s future

Redistribution of wealth, digital currency and the risks of climate change are just some of the many factors re-shaping the luxury real estate landscape. Is your business prepared for what lies ahead? More than 500 of the industry’s top-producing agents and brokers will gather in Beverly Hills October 18-19, 2017, at Inman’s Luxury Connect to dive […]

3 trends shaping the housing market of today (and tomorrow)

It’s time to clear a few things that have been lingering around my desk, bits and pieces of market news that together explain some of what’s happening with today’s housing market and how it may change in the near and distant future. More would-be buyers opting out of homeownership The most popular theory about why […]

10 creative ideas for creating engaging real estate video

By 2020, Facebook will be mostly video. That means you have two and a half more years to get comfortable with it. A select group of real estate agents are already leveraging it in a big way for their business, but for most, you have yet to embrace it. Why? Fear. You don’t like looking […]

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