Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate expands SoCal presence

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate is expanding its Southern California presence with a merger and a new affiliation, giving it 13 California-affiliated brokerages and more than 1,500 agents in the state. Continue reading

The 2 ‘it’ houseplants sure to activate your green thumb

The fiddle leaf fig and Pilea peperomioides are growing in popularity on Instagram. Which plant is best for your home design plans? Continue reading

Chance the Rapper gives RE/MAX a shoutout

Chance the Rapper’s latest track mentions a single mom who “called up the RE/MAX and opened her own site” The woman in question? The Grammy-winning artist’s mother-in-law, Janice Corley. Continue reading

WATCH: How to take your team’s branding to the next level

“Branding is evoking emotions and feelings from our customers, right? So it’s so important for us to stay very focused on the fact that those emotions and those feelings give us the opportunity in our business to grow more in-depth relationships.” Rene… Continue reading

New $97M venture fund to focus on construction technology

Brick and Mortar Ventures, a firm that thinks of itself as the “Fifth Wall of construction,” announced Tuesday that it now has nearly $100 million to pour into high tech startups. Continue reading

After ‘ghost agent’ purge, Keller Williams’ agent count is growing

Following two straight quarters of North American agent count declines, KW added nearly 3,000 associates in the second quarter. Continue reading

New York Fed calls US housing market ‘anemic’ and ‘lackluster’

Existing-home sales activity lagged in June, with single-family home sales falling 1.5 percent to 4.69 million units, according to the report. Continue reading

WATCH: Rethinking your brokerage to maximize productivity

Onstage at Inman Connect Las Vegas, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Metro Brokers’ Craig McClelland and Hunter Rowe Real Estate owner Mike Regan discussed their efforts to build brokerages that “departmentalized” to free up staff members’ time and… Continue reading

WATCH: The systems and tools top recruiters love

Automation, automation, automation — oh, and taking the time to call your agents and remind them that you value them. These are the keys to mastering recruiting, productivity and retention — at least as three panelists explained it at the Inman Connect… Continue reading