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Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman on Zillow: ‘I’m scared of them’

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Describing Zillow as ‘Godzilla,’ Kelman also conceded that Redfin’s iBuying program will never grow to 50% of the market. Continue reading →

Zillow CEO Rich Barton: ‘Real estate agents are not going away’

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Rich Barton discusses Zillow’s ‘expansion’ into Zillow homes, his goal for the Zestimate and why he wants his company to be a home marketplace. Continue reading →

Brad Inman: A consumer manifesto for real estate

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“An industry that used to manage the consumer will be managed by the consumer — and that’s good,” Brad Inman said during an Inman Connect interview with Warburg Realty’s Clelia Peters. Continue reading →

ICLV Startup Alley: 6 intriguing stops worth making

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Startup Alley at Connect is a pulsing, technology-infused pathway into the future of the industry. Here are a few of the companies that have gained my interest. Continue reading →

Cardboard staging furniture: Can faux furnishings lead to real sales?

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If you don’t have a library of staging items when charged with selling a vacant home or showroom unit, there’s always cardboard. Yes, cardboard. Continue reading →

Real estate execs promise they don’t want to steal your data

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One of the things that often gets lost when discussing major acquisitions by big companies is the individual agent, who goes from utilizing a startup’s service to potentially running a crucial part of a business on a competitor’s platform. It happened … Continue reading →

Did Realogy just create a new industry standard for closing gifts?

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The final 15 minutes of ICLV’s CEO Connect was supposed to be a broad discussion about the country’s biggest companies — Facebook, Amazon and Google — and whether they would ever substantially enter the real estate business. That was, until this mornin… Continue reading →

‘New Kids’ pitch the future of real estate

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At a session called “New Kids on the Block,” company leaders offered their solutions to agent pain points, including ways to boost their reputation, collect more referrals, easily fix poor photos and get more clients. Continue reading →