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No, your pumpkin spice latte addiction isn’t preventing you from making that down payment

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According to realtor.com, you’d need to skip 6,147 pumpkin spice lattes (or a latte a day for 17 years!) to save enough for a down payment. Continue reading →

Inman News quiz: Think you’re on top of the week’s biggest stories?

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The real estate industry threw some curveballs. Take Inman’s real estate news quiz to demonstrate how strong your talking points and cocktail banter are this week. Continue reading →

Locals, not Amazon workers, are buying property near HQ2

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Investors and local residents are snapping up properties near Amazon’s second headquarters in Crystal City, Virginia, in anticipation of the tech workers to come. Continue reading →

An estimated $4B will flow to U.S. proptech companies in 2019 – that’s just the beginning

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An estimated $4 billion is forecasted to flow into the U.S. real estate technology (proptech) space in 2019, a record for the industry, according to a new report from CB Insights, but experts in the space say the industry hasn’t come close to reaching … Continue reading →

KW advises charging 0% to clients who sell to Offerpad

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Keller Williams Realty is advising its agents to charge nothing to clients who sell to the iBuyer Offerpad and instead to only accept payment from Offerpad in the form of a 1 percent commission. Continue reading →

Redfin to publicly display buyers’ agent commissions on all listings

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The online brokerage believes that displaying buyer’s agent commissions will add transparency and lead to a more efficient housing marketplace. Continue reading →

iBuying giant Opendoor to begin offering home loans

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iBuying behemoth Opendoor announced Thursday that it has launched its own mortgage lending service, marking the company’s latest move to completely upend the real estate industry. Opendoor Home Loans is now live in Texas markets Dallas-Fort Worth, Aust… Continue reading →

Consulting firm T3 Sixty hires former NAR, Lone Wolf execs

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Real estate consulting firm T3 Sixty, the company behind the influential Swanepoel Mega 1000 rankings, announced Thursday that it has hired a pair of new vice presidents who previously worked as executives at the National Association of Realtors (NAR) … Continue reading →

KvCORE shines in increasingly crowded all-in-one platform space

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KvCORE is Inside Real Estate’s all-in-one business management, marketing and sales solution. See how it stacks up among its industry competitors in this in-depth proptech review. Continue reading →

5 mistakes that’ll derail your Instagram

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Instagram might be the perfect social media platform for real estate. It helps agents capture followers as they ogle at property pics, they can fall in love with listings through innovative IG stories, and they get a real-life sneak peek at what agents… Continue reading →