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HUD secretary Ben Carson wants more cities to ditch single-family zoning

As cities across the U.S. grapple with severe housing shortages that send prices soaring and would-be buyers fleeing, Ben Carson said he’d like to see more cities address the zoning regulations that contribute to the problem. Carson — who leads the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) — made his comments Tuesday during a […]

Top companies bet on Inman Connect Las Vegas

While Inman Connect attendees are booking their flights, getting hair cuts, ordering business cards, and reviewing the agenda, franchises, service and solution providers for the industry are also preparing. Because Inman Las Vegas isn’t just bigger, better, bolder in terms of content. That goes for our sponsors, too. You won’t find kiosks in Las Vegas […]

Multifamily home automation startup SmartRent raises $32M

SmartRent, a company that provides home automation services for multifamily properties, announced Wednesday that it has raised $32 million from a group of investors including a powerful firm that also just poured cash into a maintenance startup. Arizona-based SmartRent plans to use the new, Series B funding to beef up its ability to “perform rapid, […]

Lennar partners with SkyNav in mixed-reality marketing

National homebuilder Lennar announced this week that it has partnered with San Francisco-based SkyNav to showcase a Summerville, South Carolina, master-planned community called Summer’s Corner. Source: click here

Chime ‘DAREs’ agents to try its new Facebook ad creation tool

It’s designed to streamline the process of creating Facebook ads and capturing leads for Realtors, so they can tap the social media network for business without spending much time on it, generating Facebook ads for an agent’s listings sourced from the MLS. It then can target the ads at prospective buyers on Facebook based on the […]

Zillow peering in your window may be a good sign

With its impressive stock turn around, Zillow is stalking firms that can support their fast growing instant-offer biz model. Source: click here

Compass, eXp executives named ‘top CEOs’ on Glassdoor list

Compass CEO Robert Reffkin and eXp Realty CEO Glenn Sanford stood among a scant few real estate executives named in Glassdoor’s annual list of the top chief executives across the nation’s large, medium and small companies, it was announced Tuesday. Reffkin, the CEO and co-founder of Compass, snagged the 63rd spot on the large companies […]

Rent, don’t buy, in these 3 states

Across 40 U.S. states, monthly rent grew at a slower rate than housing prices between the first quarter of 2018 and today, according to an Apartment Guide report released Tuesday. The rental platform identified Oregon, New York and Iowa as states with the widest gap between rent and housing values by analyzing data from the Federal Housing […]

NAR’s tech accelerator REACH goes global

REACH — which first launched in 2013 and is part of NAR’s Second Century Ventures investment fund — has worked with dozens of companies over the years including House Canary, BoxBrownie and BombBomb. The goal is to provide promising new companies with training, networking and other resources to further their growth. Source: click here

Google vows to invest $1B on new housing in Silicon Valley

Search giant Google on Tuesday promised to invest more than $1 billion creating thousands of new homes in California’s Bay Area, continuing a trend among large companies to spend big sums on solving a growing housing affordability crisis. Sundar Pichai Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the investment in a blog post, writing that “over the next […]

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