Google expands home listing ads. How can agents participate?
Bright MLS' participation offers one of the best looks at how Google’s HouseCanary-powered home listing experience may work in practice.
The real estate trap I built for myself, one yes at a time
For years, I thought saying yes made me a better leader, Keith Robinson writes. It turns out it was making me worse at the things that mattered most.
New agent, phantom buyers and the career-ending consequences
A California agent created three fake offers to keep a luxury listing from expiring. Troy Palmquist and Summer Goralik look at how the scheme unraveled in their latest True Crimes of Real Estate episode.
A record 20% of house hunters looked to relocate in Q1
A record share of U.S. house hunters looked to leave their home metro in the first quarter, Redfin found — and the data reveals which markets are still drawing movers and which pandemic boomtowns are losing them.
We can’t be bought, and we won’t be bullied
Inman does not work for the biggest brokerages, the loudest portal or whoever is writing the largest check this quarter. We work for the agents and brokers.
Stop trying to predict the housing market. Start building a business that lasts.
After more than 20 years of experience in the real estate industry, I’ve seen more predictions than I can count. And today, agents are surrounded by questions about what’s going to happen. Will interest rates go down? Will inventory open up? How will AI impact operations? What part of the cycle is this? These are […]
Even once the war ends, real estate agents see longer road ahead: Intel
Talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz have calmed some corners of the financial sector, but real estate brokerages aren't feeling it yet.
Your listings, your feed and the AI in between
The path from buyer curiosity to listing page ran through the same handful of portals for two decades. That infrastructure is starting to move — and the agents paying attention now will be the ones ahead of it.
Down market, zero budget: The lead-gen playbook that actually works right now
These low- and no-cost lead-gen strategies are built for exactly this kind of market — and they'll still be working when it turns.