Sotheby’s adds new exclusive, luxury decor to virtual staging app

The brokerage has partnered with Perigold to allow Sotheby’s agents to virtually stage listings with furniture and decor from Wayfair.com’s luxury brand. Continue reading

Realogy totally overhauls agent training program for digital age

More than 300,000 agents worldwide are poised to receive updated, customized training via desktop, tablet and smartphone, Realogy executives revealed to Inman. Continue reading

Inman News quiz: Think you’re on top of the week’s biggest stories?

The real estate industry threw some curveballs. Take Inman’s real estate news quiz to demonstrate how strong your talking points and cocktail banter are this week. Continue reading

4 big tech and financial trends every brokerage must confront

We hear about new and emerging technologies every day, but where is all this taking us? Let’s pull back the curtain and look at the bigger picture. Here are the four major disruptive forces that I see shaping the real estate brokerage industry going ah… Continue reading

Will SoftBank’s iBuyer investment flounder as agents adapt?

Valuations, such as that ascribed to Opendoor by SoftBank, are based on the assumption that iBuying operations advance the technology and antiquated nature of the real estate sales process. What if the same flawed thinking that saw WeWork valued at mul… Continue reading

Flood of agents depart SoCal luxury brokerage The Agency

Departing agents have fled to Compass and to Hilton & Hyland, a brokerage that has a history of bad blood with The Agency. Continue reading

Independent brokerage with 81 agents jumping to eXp Realty

Willie Miranda of Miranda Real Estate Group, located just north of the state capitol in Albany, is taking his team to the virtual cloud. Continue reading

‘They’re screwed’: iBuyers would suffer under Bernie Sanders’ housing plan 

The senator’s proposed anti-home flipping and vacant home taxes could strain the likes of Opendoor, Offerpad and Zillow Offers. NAR, meanwhile, disapproves of its rental regulations. Continue reading