Compass offers discounted health care to agents

Compass agents will have access to insurance from national carriers – including Cigna – as well as dental, vision, payroll administration services, compliance and liability support and other human resources offerings. Continue reading

Exclusive: Opendoor testing new co-listing partnership with selected agents

Opendoor has selected about a dozen agent teams as partners for its new “preferred agent partnership” program, using them to sell more than 20 properties. Continue reading

Fighting Back: Give agents what they need and consumers what they want

How are real estate broker-owners responding, adapting or changing? Here’s what Nico Hohman, broker-owner of Hohman Homes Real Estate Brokerage & New Home Consultants in Tampa, Florida, is doing. Continue reading

Laura Monroe joins Real Estate Webmasters

Real Estate Webmasters, the custom web design and marketing firm for real estate professionals, is bringing the former Inman employee on in the newly-created role of head of industry and brand engagement. Continue reading

LeadingRE to arm brokers against disruption with webinar series

Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, a network of the top-producing indie brokerages, is launching a series of webinars hosted by Mike DelPrete. Continue reading

Credit Karma launches new personalized shopping experience

The new Marketplace aims to address the lack of certainty, transparency and simplicity in today’s financial product shopping process. Today, the process of getting a credit card or loan is broken. It’s like a black box — and lenders seem to hold all the power. The lack of certainty, transparency and simplicity makes it harder […]

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The Next Retirement Crisis: America’s Public Pensions

Back in 2013, I blogged on Next Avenue about the excellent PBS FRONTLINE documentary, The Retirement Gamble, where correspondent Martin Smith reported on America’s troubling retirement savings crisis. He’s now back with a riveting sequel airing Tuesday… Continue reading