2022 game plan: 20+ buyer and seller facts to inform your business

What’s critical to buyers and sellers now, and what’s changed over the past year? If you’re in the throes of strategizing for next year, here are a few key demographics, trends and takeaways — plucked from NAR’s 2021 buyer and seller research — broken … Continue reading

Choosing a Google-centric smart home: Pros and cons

Smart home expert Colton Pratt breaks down Google-anchored hubs. Here’s how Google fares when pitted against Amazon, in case one of your tech-savvy clients asks your opinion. Continue reading

Tell us your biggest fail in 2021: Pulse

Failure stings, but that doesn’t mean it’s all bad. In fact, some of the biggest mishaps often turn into the most rewarding, career-changing lessons. So, what did you fail at in 2021? This week, we’re asking you to dig deep in the interest of those who… Continue reading

Brad Inman’s real estate predictions for 2022: Here’s to a sober year

Keller Williams, Douglas Elliman, the DOJ and the NAR. Brad Inman’s crystal ball is “a little foggy — but a big trend is coming into focus for me” in 2022, Inman’s founder writes. Continue reading

‘Burn the deadwood’ and other lessons to take into 2022

Want to see growth in the new year? From welcoming alternate perspectives to setting and raising your baseline, here are four nuggets of wisdom to embrace in 2022, taken from history, nature and sports. Continue reading

Place to triple its workforce to bring its platform to more agent teams

Team leaders Chris Suarez and Ben Kinney built a $1 billion proptech unicorn. Now they’re planning to triple the company’s workforce by the end of next year. Continue reading

Realogy in 2022: Power buying, a luxury ‘turbocharge’ and more

Realogy CEO Ryan Schneider outlines why he’s bullish on the luxury market, where his company aims to invest and how his team is ready to take on whatever 2022 brings. Continue reading

Redfin calls on real estate websites to drop crime data

The company cited the real estate industry’s history of redlining, as well as the potential to reinforce racial bias, as reasons to abandon crime data on search portals and other websites. Continue reading

Real estate agents band together for recovery in tornado-stricken states

Tornadoes ripped through six states between Friday and Saturday morning, wreaking havoc and destruction. Realtors told Inman that they were helping each other amidst the devastation. Continue reading

Real estate in 2021 was weird, wild and always unpredictable

The year saw explosive rivalries, wild stock market performances and plenty of rage. Continue reading