‘Full service’ for 1%? Clever Real Estate gets $3.5M in funding

Clever’s pitch to homesellers, which account for the vast majority of  referrals it makes, is full service from a top-performing agent for a 1 percent listing fee or a minimum of $3,000 — whichever is greater. That’s a third of the typical listing fee… Continue reading

Salesforce nixes gun stores: Should real estate care?

Salesforce is a large business technology company, and its CRM is very popular among real estate agents. The company has decided to stop selling its e-commerce software to retail gun stores. How will real estate respond? Continue reading

How the real estate industry is celebrating Pride 2019

June in America is LGBTQ Pride Month, with parades and celebrations across the country commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots – a series of gay rights demonstrations in 1969 that were met with police force and gave birth to the LGBTQ move… Continue reading

RE/MAX team of 17 agents jumps to eXp Realty

Veronica Figueroa, a former Inman Innovator award winner and member of the Real Trends Thousand is taking her 21-person Orlando-based team to eXp Realty from RE/MAX, she confirmed to Inman this week. Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: Compass, eXp Realty and Redfin voice support for Equality Act

Just in time for Pride Month, the annual June celebration of LGBTQ rights in the U.S., three major real estate brokerages – Compass, eXp Realty and Redfin— all confirmed to Inman this week for the first time that they support the Equality Act, a propos… Continue reading

Best of both worlds? Notarize launches ‘hybrid’ closings for lenders

The service is exactly what it sounds like, with consumers able to sign some documents online while still wrapping things up in the traditional way at their lender’s office. Continue reading

EXp Realty undertakes massive Canadian expansion

EXp Realty announced Wednesday at its shareholder summit in Orlando that the company is bringing its virtual cloud-based tech-focused brokerage to four more provinces in Canada, giving it a total company footprint of seven Canadian provinces.  Continue reading

3 simple tips for helping buyers fall in love with the neighborhood

A house can be changed physically to fit the buyers’ needs, and then it becomes their home. A big piece of feeling at home is falling in love with a neighborhood. Here are three tips for helping buyers want to take it to the next level with a neighborh… Continue reading

Coffee’s for closers: How to create a mindset for success

Building a successful real estate business for the long term requires self-knowledge, social skills, thinking beyond the immediate sale and understanding the dynamics of your market. Continue reading

A line in the sand: W+R Studios won’t accept old listing data standard

Six months ago W+R Studios began the process of making all of its products, the Cloud Agent Suite, compatible with the RESO Web API. Today, the company announced it had achieved that goal, and, moreover, it would no longer accept data from new MLS cust… Continue reading