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Tweetstorm perfectly captures the insanity of Silicon Valley’s housing market right now

Most people know how expensive Silicon Valley real estate can be, but one Twitter thread from a real estate expert sheds a particularly grim light on how the tech industry is affecting home prices in Northern California. In San Francisco, $1.45 million was the median price of just over 400 houses sold in the last […]

Real estate daily market update: March 27, 2018

 We’ll add more market news briefs throughout the day. Check back to read the latest. Most recent market news Tuesday, March 27 Bankrate mortgage rates The average rate you’ll pay for a 30-year fixed mortgage is 4.33 percent. The average 15-year fixed-mortgage rate is 3.76 percent. Source: Bankrate Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) 2017 Rankings of […]

Google offshoot Waymo will launch driverless Uber competitor in Phoenix this year

NEW YORK — Waymo, a division of Google’s parent company Alphabet that has been working on self-driving technology, will launch its ride-hailing network of self-driving cars in Phoenix sometime this year. It will then expand to other cities over the next two years, the company said Tuesday at an announcement event in New York City’s Chelsea […]

Gen Z expected to outspend millennials on rent

When it comes to rental costs, millennials carry a burden heavier than that of any other generation in history — but if average rental rates continue to soar at their current pace, Generation Z will have it worse. A new study from RentCafe revealed that the nation’s estimated 80 million millennials pay approximately 45 percent […]

Home price growth is unstoppable, ‘no weak spots’ in housing markets

January’s S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index shows that home price growth is unlikely to slow down anytime soon — January 2018’s national index comes in at 196.31, a 6.2 percent year-over-year and a seasonally adjusted 0.5 percent month-over-month increase. S&P Dow Jones Indices managing director and chairman of the index committee David M. […]

JLL Spark acquires Stessa, a tech platform for tracking real estate investments

Have suggestions for products that you’d like to see reviewed by our real estate technology expert? Email Craig Rowe. Real estate investors who are using the beta version of Steesa, a tech platform for for supporting the management of income-producing property, learned today that the software has been acquired by JLL Spark, a division of […]

Chicago brokerage Kale Realty’s license revoked for insufficient supervision of agents

Managers at Kale Realty, a Chicago-based brokerage sponsoring nearly 400 agents, failed to properly supervise employees and allowed Realtors to work without licenses, according to a ruling by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. The ruling issued by the Illinois state regulatory agency effectively bars the 65-year-old brokerage from operating and will force […]

5 open house sign mistakes that’ll cost you foot traffic

This Spring, Inman is obsessing over helping you to tune-up your listings business, with actionable insights, the best advice from top agents and hundreds of helpful stories from all over the world. Interested in sharing your advice and insights with us? Reach out to me at matthew@inman.com. Don’t forget that we’ll also be focusing on […]

3 quick and easy real estate SEO tactics that any agent can do

SEO (search engine optimization) can seem a bit mystical. I think, as a real estate agent, we probably get a call or email on a weekly basis from someone promising that we’ll be on the first page of Google. Today, I’m going to bring you three quick and easy real estate SEO tactics that any […]

7 tips for handling seller pricing objections

As a real estate agent, you’ve probably met all kinds of objections from sellers about the listing price of their home. Sellers, after all, want to sell for the highest amount possible. Some sellers become sentimentally attached to their home and think it should be worth much more than it is. Some sellers have heard […]

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