Existing home sales remain steady, ending four-month slump

Sales of existing homes remained steady from July to August, ending four months of decline, according to data from the National Association of Realtors. Continue reading

Housing starts soar in August but permits plunge to 15-month low

Privately-owned housing starts jumped 9.2 percent month-over-month and 9.4 percent year-over-year to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,282,000, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Census … Continue reading

Agents reap the spoils of new technology, not consumers

In real estate, innovations in technology have ignored the consumer. Instead, agents get clever digital marketing tools and backend applications. Continue reading

‘Not today, Flo’: Realtors livestream, struggle to find power as Hurricane Florence makes landfall

The storm, which touched down around 7:15 a.m. Friday, brought heavy rain and winds of 90 miles an hour to parts of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Continue reading

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman: There’s too much money in real estate

Glenn Kelman, Redfin’s CEO and president took the helm of the real estate brokerage 13 years ago, this month. He talks to Inman about the ups and downs. Continue reading

Keller Williams partnership aims to create an AI ‘factory’ for its Kelle virtual assistant

The partnership with software company CognitiveScale will allow Keller Williams to speed its development of new “skills” for its agent-facing mobile assistant Kelle. Continue reading

‘We’re building the next Amazon’: Knock CEO Sean Black on Texas expansion and plans to go public

With Knock marking three years since its launch, CEO Sean Black revealed the company’s plans for the future — and why he doesn’t consider Knock an iBuyer. Continue reading

Keller Williams’ AI assistant Kelle is learning Kung-Fu

This is the second major upgrade Kelle has gotten since its initial launch in February 2018. In August, Kelle debuted snap, skill that provides a map-based detailed profile of a neighborhood based on borders gleaned from the homeowner social network, N… Continue reading