How to raise your price point with luxury staging

Julian Buckner of Vesta Home shares strategies for raising the price point of your average listing and increasing your commission by staging high-end homes effectively. Continue reading

@properties Christie’s launches homeseller renovation program

Through the program, qualified homeowners will be able to borrow up to $50,000 or 5 percent of their home’s list price to make pre-sale improvements. Continue reading

5 ways to stop listing anxiety from wrecking your price, process, profit

Managing anxiety around the home sale process can preserve deals and ensure more effective decision-making for you and your clients, Josh Ries writes. Continue reading

Design trends and tips to help your listing fly off the market in 2026

Restraint, a focus on nature and the outdoors, and good staging will help luxury agents and their clients close the deal in 2026. Continue reading

High-stakes staging: Secrets for turning ultra-luxury mansions into livable homes

New Inman contributor Julian Buckner of Vesta Home talks staging, scaling and the complexity of styling a 22,000-square-foot Bel-Air property. Continue reading

Reputation is the only currency that matters in real estate

Find out how “agent’s agent” Mike Fabbri works and why he loves the HBO-worthy levels of drama that a real estate career provides. Continue reading

The last deal of 2025: What it takes to close during the holidays

If you’re racing the calendar to get to the closing table before year-end, take a tip from these agents who are still working right up through New Year’s Eve. Continue reading

Change strategy as the market shifts to win the listings long game

Coach agents on how to shift from “turn-and-burn” tactics to intentional nurturing, smarter messaging and pricing that reflects today’s market realities. Continue reading

Through the bathroom door: What 3D tours reveal about buyers today

The rooms that get the most attention online might surprise you, Troy Palmquist writes. Here’s what the data says about how we sell homes in 2025. Continue reading

‘Selling the OC’ drops today. Get to know the agents

We asked The Oppenheim Group’s Orange County agents to share three things most people don’t know about them. Here are the Netflix stars’ fun facts, along with personal pictures. Continue reading