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Agents reap the spoils of new technology, not consumers

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In real estate, innovations in technology have ignored the consumer. Instead, agents get clever digital marketing tools and backend applications. Continue reading →

Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman: There’s too much money in real estate

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Glenn Kelman, Redfin’s CEO and president took the helm of the real estate brokerage 13 years ago, this month. He talks to Inman about the ups and downs. Continue reading →

Hurricane Florence is aimed at $1 trillion worth of real estate

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As has been the case in recent catastrophic hurricane events, most recently Hurricane Harvey’s 2017 landfall in Houston, most of the fear is rooted in the impact of flooding, a result of hours of prolonged downpours swelling rural and municipal bodies … Continue reading →

Zillow gets into the leads referral business

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The new pilot program, which launches in Florida under Premier Broker, will allow brokerages to generate leads with no upfront costs. Continue reading →

Opendoor announces game-changing brokerage acquisition

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The well-funded San Francisco startup is buying the discount brokerage Open Listings, giving it real estate agents and a powerful new tech platform Continue reading →

Zillow Offers officially launches in Atlanta

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Zillow Offers is launching Monday in Atlanta. It’s the third market for the neophyte direct-to-consumer home buying and selling program, which launched in Phoenix back in April of this year. Continue reading →

Affording a home mortgage hasn’t been this difficult since 2009

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And though still well below the historical average of 21.2 percent, the income-to-mortgage ratio has not been this high since 2009, in the wake of the financial crisis (leading up to it, the income-to-mortgage ratio spiked past 20 percent). Continue reading →

Keller Williams acquires app company SmarterAgent to compete with Zillow, Redfin

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Keller William’s decision to acquire SmarterAgent was a defensive move against tech distributors in the industry, Team said. Founded a decade ago by brothers Brad and Eric Blumberg in Philadelphia, SmarterAgent hands Keller Williams a team of 31 mobile… Continue reading →