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Become a Sought-After Team: 5 tips from Million Dollar Listing LA stars

December 16, 2021

Successful team leaders and stars of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles James Harris and David Parnes share what has helped them grow their business into a reputable team sought after by agents, brokerages and clients. Are you receiving our weekly Teams Beat newsletter? For the latest news, insight and trends on teams, subscribe here. If your […]

How Agents Can Take Advantage Of The Zillow-DPR Deal

Editor’s note: Bernice Ross hosts the Awesome Females in Real Estate Leadership Conference annual, which Zillow was a sponsor of close to six years ago. While recent headlines have been inundated with news about Zillow abandoning its iBuyer program due to its Zestimate’s inability to predict future prices, Zillow just announced a game-changing partnership with […]

Redfin In 2022: Does Slow and Steady Ultimately Win the Race?

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. Redfin kind of does it all. The company […]

Home Prices Hit Near Record High As Inventory Bottoms Out

Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather says homebuyers are finding themselves “priced out of homeownership.” Two days after revealing that 2021 broke records for days on market, median sales price, inventory and mortgage rates, real estate brokerage Redfin released a report that painted a dire picture for buyers. The median home sale price nationwide is on […]

Compass Will Give Agents $10K For Training and Coaching

December 15, 2021

The 10×10 Business Growth Challenge will pay individual agents and team leaders to participate in various training programs over the course of 10 weeks. Fast-growing brokerage Compass on Wednesday announced the debut of a new coaching program that will give the company’s agents up to $10,000 for training. Robert Reffkin Company co-founder and CEO Robert […]

Aspen Puts Kibosh On New Construction, Short-Term Rental Permits

An emergency ordinance passed by Aspen’s city council last week put a halt to all new short-term rental permits, as well as permits for all home construction projects, in an effort to combat the city’s increasing lack of affordable housing. “It’s not outlandish to say all our mountain communities are experiencing an existential crisis on […]

Bond Yields Rise As Fed Says It Will Double Pace Of Tapering

The Federal Reserve will double the pace of its tapering of support for mortgage markets, as falling unemployment and worries about inflation outweigh uncertainty around the potential health and economic impacts of the Omicron variant. Under a schedule announced in November, the Fed had planned to trim the $120 billion in monthly asset purchases it’s […]

Redfin Is Right: Why Crime Data Doesn’t Equate To ‘Safety’

Jay Thompson is a former brokerage owner who spent over six years working for Zillow Group. He retired in August 2018 but can’t seem to leave the real estate industry behind. His weekly Inman column is published every Wednesday. “What’s the crime like in this neighborhood? Is it safe?” Those are questions every buyer asks […]

Sometimes Being A Quitter Is the Right Thing To Do — Here’s Why

Here’s a secret: It’s OK to quit. Knowing when to leave a job or drop a client from your life is just as important as taking on new challenges. Quitting — a job, a person, a brokerage, a business plan — can be a way to have more by having less. I read a book […]