How the real estate industry is celebrating Pride 2019

June in America is LGBTQ Pride Month, with parades and celebrations across the country commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots – a series of gay rights demonstrations in 1969 that were met with police force and gave birth to the LGBTQ move… Continue reading

RE/MAX team of 17 agents jumps to eXp Realty

Veronica Figueroa, a former Inman Innovator award winner and member of the Real Trends Thousand is taking her 21-person Orlando-based team to eXp Realty from RE/MAX, she confirmed to Inman this week. Continue reading

Best of both worlds? Notarize launches ‘hybrid’ closings for lenders

The service is exactly what it sounds like, with consumers able to sign some documents online while still wrapping things up in the traditional way at their lender’s office. Continue reading

EXp Realty undertakes massive Canadian expansion

EXp Realty announced Wednesday at its shareholder summit in Orlando that the company is bringing its virtual cloud-based tech-focused brokerage to four more provinces in Canada, giving it a total company footprint of seven Canadian provinces.  Continue reading

Is Purplebricks on the verge of being taken over?

Berlin-based Axel Springer publishes a number of European newspapers and also owns U.S.-based website Business Insider and its offshoots. The company previously invested $177 million in Purplebricks, which was used to fund the brokerage’s expansion bey… Continue reading

A new ‘uniform’ for Fannie and Freddie aims to help homebuyers, investors

Though relatively obscure among most consumers, the project to create the UMBS has been in the works since at least 2012. Officials have already been prepping investors for the launch of the combined TBA market for months, and during Monday’s phone cal… Continue reading

EXp Realty is expanding to New York City

James Hynes will serve as the managing broker of eXp Realty’s Brooklyn operations. Hynes has been with eXp Realty for more than two years in Rochester, New York. Continue reading

How Apple’s new updates could shake up real estate

Improvements to Apple Maps should be especially handy for agents who like to use voice commands with their iPhones, as those phones default to Apple’s proprietary mapping technology rather than that of a competitor such as Google. Continue reading

A star is born? Say hello to Stellar MLS

The third largest multiple listing service in the nation and the largest in Florida has been My Florida Regional MLS since 1993. But after 26 years, the company decided it was time for a rebrand that reflected its focus on its 58,000 agent and broker c… Continue reading