Real Estate News

7 Steps To Find, Analyze And Dominate A Real Estate Farm

December 10, 2021

Are you receiving Inman’s Agent Edge? Make sure you’re subscribed here. If you’re looking for more listings, one of the fundamental ways to build a thriving real estate business is to set up a geographical farm. But how do you go from finding a farm to becoming the neighborhood’s dominant agent? In this guide to building a […]

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7 types of oddball homes — and how to find them

Finding unconventional homes requires a bit more work than looking on the MLS, but once you are known for a niche, clients will start coming to you through referral sources and word of mouth. If oddball homes are an area you want to expand in, here’s what you should know. On average, Americans move 11.7 […]

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Digital Mortgage Lender Beeline Completes Series A Funding Round

December 09, 2021

Beeline, a digital mortgage lender that accesses bank, income and tax information online to provide “purchase-ready approvals” in 15 minutes, has completed a Series A funding round that brings the total raised to date to $22 million. Providence, Rhode Island-based Beeline says it’s closed nearly $500 million in mortgages since launching in June 2020, and […]

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Maxwell Helping Smaller Lenders Streamline Mortgage Document Reviews

Tech startup Maxwell has a new offering that’s designed to help small to midsize mortgage lenders employ machine learning to accelerate the document review process and catch mistakes before loans are underwritten. A number of companies are bringing machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities to bear in mortgage lending. But Denver-based Maxwell claims to have […]

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LA Broker Sentenced To 10 Years For Role In Pandemic Relief Scheme

A real estate broker will spend time in prison for her role in a scheme to apply for COVID-19 small-business relief money and spend it instead on property down payments, gold coins and luxury items. Tamara Dadyan Tamara Dadyan on Monday was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison after pleading guilty in June […]

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Biden Tariff Policy Pushes Lumber Costs Back To Record Highs

Booming buyer demand, withering U.S. lumber supplies and a tariff hike on Canadian softwood have pushed lumber prices to a pandemic high, with sales contracts closing at $950 Wednesday. After reaching record highs in the first quarter of 2021,  lumber prices leveled out during the summer with sales contracts for two-by-fours dipping as low as $454.20 […]

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Opendoor In 2022: As the King of the iBuyers Grows, So Does Its Risk

Through December Inman will be digging into the real estate industry’s most prominent brokerages, iBuyers and paradigm-shifters to suss out the biggest challenges each face in 2022. Check back regularly as we publish new reports on Keller Williams, Compass, Zillow and others in the days and weeks ahead. Opendoor has long been the king of […]

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National Association of Realtors Deemed ‘Great Place To Work’

Most of the National Association of Realtors’ 342 employees have worked at the trade group for six years or more. The National Association of Realtors has earned the esteem of the vast majority of its 342 employees, the 1.5 million-member trade group announced Wednesday. For the second straight year, the Great Place to Work Institute, […]

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Corcoran Expands In Caribbean With New Puerto Rico Affiliate

The San Juan firm formerly known as Gramercy Real Estate Group will become Corcoran Puerto Rico and will be headed by Blanca Hebé López Pierluisi. New York-based brokerage Corcoran Group is expanding into Puerto Rico with the welcoming of a new affiliate office in the territory, the company announced Thursday. The San Juan firm formerly […]

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