Forget new fangled bells and whistles to run your real estate business. What are the tried-and-true rules of the game that agents should focus on now?
How Glenn Sanford built eXp into a billion-dollar brokerage
In this episode of Real Estate Insiders Unfiltered — exclusively on Inman — the founder and CEO of eXp World Holdings gets raw and unfiltered about his journey from housing crash to CEO.
You’re broke because you don’t track these 3 lead-gen metrics
When you start tracking these three lead-generation metrics, Josh Ries writes, you set yourself up for top performance in any market cycle.
RMLS launches an AI use agents can get behind: getting paid
Real estate agents in Oregon belonging to Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS) will be a bit quicker to verify the integrity of their deal documents thanks to the latest artificial intelligence offering by Restb.ai.
Fed Governor Lisa Cook didn’t commit mortgage fraud: attorneys
Hundreds of economists say Trump adminstration's move to fire Cook "threatens the fundamental principle of central bank independence and undermines trust in one of America’s most important institutions."
Trump administration ‘in no rush’ to do Fannie, Freddie IPO this year
Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer and Cory Booker have asked federal regluator to pause any efforts to reprivatize Fannie and Freddie and study potential impact on mortgage rates.
Texas bans some foreign buyers from purchasing real estate
The law that went into effect on Monday prohibits individuals and companies from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia from buying or leasing property for more than one year.
NAR fires back at Mauricio Umansky’s PLS in new legal filing
The trade association essentially denied all allegations that The PLS made against it, arguing that Clear Cooperation and NAR policies are "lawful, justified, procompetitive [and] pro-consumer," and that they were conducted with NAR's legitimate business interests in mind.
Stephen Muss, Developer Who Helped Revive Miami Beach, Dies at 97
The scion of a New York family of builders, he rescued the Fontainebleau hotel from bankruptcy, spurring a real estate boom.
D.I.Y. Repairs Turned Into a Gut Renovation in Philadelphia
A couple of architects liked their rowhouse so much that they transformed it two different times to suit their evolving needs.
‘If our nurses, firefighters, and teachers can’t live here, then our community stops functioning’
Workforce housing initiatives offer one part of the affordability solution for discouraged buyers, but still fall short of the need.
The 90-day restart your real estate pipeline needs
Broker and lead-gen consultant Josh Reis outlines the 5×3×90 Program, a zero-dollar way to restart a quiet real estate pipeline.
Marketing lessons from Taylor Swift (that Cracker Barrel forgot)
From Taylor Swift’s viral engagement moment to Cracker Barrel’s rebrand misstep, timing, tone and cultural fluency shape brand perception.
Your brand isn’t what you say it is (it’s what others see)
Your brand lives in the eye of the beholder, and it’s shaped by the perceptions of countless external stakeholders — not in what you say about it, The Agency President Rainy Hake Austin writes.
The 7 must-have real estate sales success fundamentals
Wondering if you have the right stuff for a career in real estate? Trainer and author Bernice Ross offers seven chracteristics that signal success.
$3 Million Homes in California
A Spanish-style house in Los Angeles, a desert retreat in Palm Springs and a Joseph Eichler house in Sunnyvale.
Brad Pitt Pays $12 Million for a House in the Hollywood Hills
Also making moves in August were the actor Jake Gyllenhaal, the tennis champion Naomi Osaka, and ‘Shark Tank’ investor Robert Herjavec.
NAR lost the trust of many agents. Is the trade group winning it back?
When new rules governing buyer's agent compensation went into effect, the share of real estate agents Intel surveyed who saw the National Association of Realtors as bad for the industry shot up. One year later, some agents are coming back around.
Lesson Learned: When it comes to real estate, there’s no final exam
Find out how Connecticut real estate agent Eddie Gutierrez keeps climbing, while learning new things all along the way.
ICYMI, all the latest on Trump, the Fed, mortgage rates and more
Last week, Inman staff writers and contributors had governmental and economic shifts on the brain, writing about rates, sales trends and the national debt.