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Is Facebook coming for Zillow?

Facebook has always played a supporting role in the marketing portfolio of real estate professionals: historically, real estate agents have been twice as likely to admit advertising on a listing portal than on social media. For its part, Facebook has never built features that cater directly to real estate consumers and professionals. Earlier this year, […]

8 experts predict what the 2018 housing market has in store

The 2017 real estate market, characterized by a relentless listings shortage, surging home prices and a noisy political climate fueling uncertainty about the future, wasn’t without its challenges. Yet real estate professionals have weathered years far less rosy, and with a strong economy propelling job growth (and putting unemployment at a 17-year low), 2018 housing is poised […]

Deedcoin wants to disrupt commissions with digital currency tokens

A Melbourne, Fla.-based startup called Deedcoin wants to create a system that will slash agent commissions to 1 percent and dramatically reduce brokerage overhead–and it’s planning on using virtual currency tokens to do that. The company, an offshoot of the local investment brokerage Momentum Realty, aims to sell 70 million “deedcoin” tokens on its website […]

5 simple New Year’s resolutions every real estate agent should make

Let’s be honest with ourselves. As January approaches, we have every intention of making good on our resolutions. But by February, we’re so buried by the to-do list that reaching our New Year’s resolutions seems about as attainable as riding a unicorn. Don’t feel bad. Real estate agents are humans like everyone else. Which means […]

Single-family housing construction hits 10-year high

Plagued by historically low inventory, the construction industry rallied in November with a 5.3 percent boost in single-family housing starts to an annualized rate of 930,000, up from 883,000 in October and marking a 10-year high.  Until today, that number had remained frustratingly out of reach since the subprime mortgage crises.  Privately-owned housing starts in […]

Police still searching for killer of Abilene, TX, Realtor

It’s been just over a year since 54-year-old Tom Niblo, formerly vice president at Abilene, Texas-based brokerage Senter Realtors, was gunned down in his home in a vicious killing that left his brokerage reeling, as local ABC news affiliate KTXS 12 noted earlier this month. Since Niblo’s death, police have been investigating whether the fatal attack was […]

Connect the Speakers: Denise Freed on working smarter, not harder

Denise will speak as part of the “How to compete with Compass and Redfin: What are you afraid of?” session at Inman’s Indie Broker Summit on Monday, January 22, 2018, at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square. SAVE MY SEAT We’re really excited to have you joining us as a speaker for Inman Connect […]

Real estate agent finds billionaire clients dead, homicide probe launched

On Friday, Dec. 15, Barry Sherman, a self-made billionaire in the Canadian pharmaceutical industry, and his philanthropist wife, Honey, were found dead by the real estate agent helping to sell their $7 million mansion in a wealthy Toronto neighborhood, according to news story published Dec. 16 by the Toronto Star, a daily Canadian newspaper, and a subsequent […]

NYT explores how homeownership tax breaks distort economy, favor the rich

As the details of the controversial Republican tax reform legislation were up for heated debate over the last several months, the National Association of Realtors threw a lobbying punch in a political flyer, asking: “Do we want to be a nation of homeowners or a nation of renters?” For NAR, the answer was obvious: a nation of […]

Do you have what it takes to be a top performer in 2018?

Would you like for 2018 to be the year that you enter the ranks of top performers? The difference between top performance versus mediocre performance is often quite small. If you’re ready to bridge that gap in 2018, here’s what it’ll take: 1. Do you have at least one niche where you are perceived as […]

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