Jeff Bezos sells Seattle-area estate for recording-breaking $63M

The Amazon founder has sold his luxurious estate in Hunts Point, just outside of Seattle, for $63 million — setting a a new state record, the “Puget Sound Business Journal” reported Thursday. It’s the second time that this particular property has made… Continue reading

The Land Report, Land id profile nation’s 100 largest landholdings

Land data and marketing solution Land id, reviewed by Inman in 2024, worked with Land Report editors to highlight the holdings of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Ted Turner. Continue reading

Trending: Instagram’s guide, Meta’s AI and TikTok’s next move

Instagram shares its growth strategy, Meta pushes AI-driven engagement, and TikTok restructures its creator tools. Marketing expert Jessi Healey shares what it all means for agents. Continue reading

What Microsoft’s Bing portal controversy says about MLS value

Real estate data is incredibly important to a variety of industries, and there’s a cost to produce it, Sam DeBord writes. Those who do so should be properly compensated. Continue reading

Microsoft removes portal data from Bing Real Estate after outcry

Four days after Bing Real Estate came under fire for its alleged co-opting of listing data from Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com, Microsoft has removed for-sale listing data from its site. Continue reading

Microsoft’s mysterious real estate portal sparks data safety concerns

Industry watchers are sounding the alarm about Microsoft’s Bing Real Estate, a site that for several months has been reposting listings from Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin without explanation. Continue reading

Here’s how CoStar can beat Zillow and win the real estate portal wars

CoStar is already borrowing a page from other big insurgent companies including Nike, Apple and Pepsi. But whether it can surpass Zillow may depend on how much it spends, analysts told Intel. Continue reading

Zillow, Redfin go head-to-head with new ChatGPT plugins

The plugins will allow users to employ conversational language to ask the chatbot details about specific listings and the kinds of homes they seek to fine-tune their search results. Continue reading

The chatbot revolution has begun. Here’s what agents need to know

Tools such as ChatGPT and Bard are brand new but already revolutionizing online content and the real estate industry. Scroll through Inman’s latest handbook to get the lowdown. Continue reading

Zillow accused of ‘wiretapping’ homebuyers’ visits to its website

The suit, one of several filed this month against the real estate search portal on similar grounds, argues that Zillow is breaking the law by recording the way consumers interact with its websites. Continue reading