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Boomers strike back: Older buyers unseat millennials as top cohort

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Baby boomers have long enjoyed advantages over millennials in the home market. Now, they’re outnumbering them as well. Continue reading →

Read Inman’s exclusive Roadmap to Real Estate’s Future

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Brad Inman writes a letter to the real estate industry, published here in full, alongside the publication of Inman’s Roadmap to Real Estate’s Future that grew out of three days of conversations and insight at Disconnect 2023. Continue reading →

Real estate braces for year of mass consolidation as startups eye exit

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A contracting market will place pressure on struggling startup entrepreneurs while some broker-owners use the down market as an opportunity to nail down a succession plan, analysts told Intel. Continue reading →

Real estate braces for year of mass consolidation as startups eye exit

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A contracting market will place pressure on struggling startup entrepreneurs while some broker-owners use the down market as an opportunity to nail down a succession plan, analysts told Intel. Continue reading →

Latest jobs numbers take pressure off wages — and mortgage rates

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The real estate industry got two kernels of good news in the latest jobs numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Continue reading →

Welcome Homes CEO Alec Hartman on this moment’s parallels with 1981

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The CEO of construction tech startup Welcome Homes thinks builders will have to take risks to prevent a massive affordability crisis, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the early 1980s. Continue reading →

As locals balk, foreign buyers take renewed look at US homes

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Real estate firms that work with foreign buyers have seen an uptick in business from outside the U.S., “The Wall Street Journal” reports. Continue reading →

Is anyone ever ‘right’? The perils of predicting housing markets in 2023

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Real estate decision-makers gathered in Palm Springs to plot the future of the industry at Inman Disconnect. It’s a tall task, several leaders proclaimed, including Vanessa Bergmark of Red Oak. Continue reading →

Brad Inman: Decision-makers, not experts, will forge real estate’s path

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The Inman founder kicked off Disconnect in Palm Springs, California, on Monday by calling on real estate leaders to deliver a path forward through the rough patches ahead. Continue reading →