Joe Rand rips New York City’s flawed sales data practices

The managing partner of Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty believes New York City’s market improved when brokerages started sharing active listing data. Now they need to fix the sales data black hole. Continue reading

Joe Rand rips New York City’s flawed sales data practices

The managing partner of Better Homes and Gardens Rand Realty believes New York City’s market improved when brokerages started sharing active listing data. Now they need to fix the sales data black hole. Continue reading

Social media is the greatest gift to agents: Ryan Serhant

Serhant, an agent and Bravo TV star, sells roughly a home a week through connections he makes on social media. Now he’s tackling TikTok. Continue reading

Rihanna’s former New York penthouse languishes on the market

Rihanna may have found love in a hopeless place, but for her former rented penthouse, things seem just plain hopeless. The 4,647-square foot condo has been languishing on the market for a decade. Continue reading

Unison CEO talks Netflix for real estate, social responsibility

Thomas Sponholtz’s company assists buyers with their down payments and helps existing homeowners access their equity — services that he says give consumers more and better financing options. Continue reading

Qualia CEO Nate Baker talks tech disruption, iBuyer growth and ‘onerous’ housing regulations

Nate Baker, whose company produces software to streamline real estate transactions, thinks trends like iBuying will get bigger even as supply shortages continue to plague cities. Continue reading

ICNY 2020: What to see and do when you’re in New York

If you love exploring big cities, New York City is, as the Schuyler Sisters sing in the Broadway mega-hit “Hamilton,” the greatest city in the world. Here are some suggestions for some extracurricular activities, outside of Inman Connect New York. Continue reading

Lesson Learned: Always be closing

Each week, we talk to agents across the country about what they’ve learned along the way (and what they wish they had known as new agents). As a top luxury agent for Douglas Elliman in New York City, Jamie Safier puts a lifetime of experience to work c… Continue reading

A real estate portal’s path to market power: a Zillow case study

Zillow’s drive to dominance in the greater New York City real estate market — via rental listings on StreetEasy and its hyperlocal Hamptons portal Out East — reveals the path to market power of real estate portals around the world. Continue reading