In what’s been a big year for politics, technology and real estate news, Inman’s most-read stories for 2017 touch on a wide range of topics pertinent to the industry. 1. Keller Williams branch fires agent over controversial Facebook post Photo: Rami Al-zayat / Unsplash Our most read story of the year covered Keller Williams Realty Black […]
Newly announced hardware from Magic Leap, a secretive Florida startup that’s drawn millions in funding from tech giants like Google, could provide a boon to real estate tech companies looking to bring augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technology to consumers. However there are still a number of barriers to making AR and VR […]
More than half of all homes sold by Redfin in 2017 resulted in bidding wars during a deeply competitive year, up from 49 percent last year. And 19 of the top 25 most cutthroat neighborhoods hailed from the Seattle metropolitan area, the very city where Redfin is headquartered, according to new data released today by […]
We’ll add more market news briefs throughout the day. Check back to read the latest. Most recent market news Tuesday, December 19 CoreLogic Loan Performance Insights 30 days or more delinquent – national The 30 days or more delinquency rate for September 2016 was 5.2 percent. In September 2017, 5 percent of mortgages were delinquent […]
Shame on me, I take too many jabs at the National Association of Realtors. But the fact is that NAR does some things so damn well, like influencing the laws of the real estate land. Last week, two sweeping public policy changes were up for grabs in Washington, D.C. — tax reform and net neutrality. […]
A 33-year veteran of Wells Fargo has been tapped to replace the bank’s consumer lending chief, who left last month after he was accused of disparaging a former executive. Mary Mack, who as head of the Community Banking division helped reshape and restructure the financial institution’s 9,000 U.S. retail banks, will now oversee both that […]
Reposted with permission from Rob Hahn. So I’ve decided to add to my end-of-the-year workload by starting something new this year. I call it the Interesting List, and there are seven — a number that is sacred to me as well as many of the world’s oldest religions — people on it. Hence, “The seven […]
Across the board, brokerages struggle to reach even modest adoption rates in software implementations among their agents; the average rate for agents using brokerage-provided software is an abysmal 6 percent. At William Pitt Sotheby’s, we recently rolled out an intelligent customer relationship management platform (iCRM) and have achieved an adoption rate of about 66 percent […]
Bob Chapman is CEO of Barry Wehmiller, a manufacturing company based out of St Louis, Missouri. The question that arises when reading that line: How in the world does a manufacturing company help anyone become a better real estate agent? Great question, let me start with a little story: It was during the economic downturn […]
Think you’ve seen and heard everything in the real estate business? You might be surprised to learn about some of these fascinating real estate facts from around the world. If you want some fun conversation starters the next time you’re chatting with a client or colleague, don’t miss these fun pieces of real estate trivia below! 1. […]
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