Inman CEO Tom Bohn introduced a new platform for the company at Inman Connect San Diego, describing it as a single destination for real estate news, data and community that he compared to a Bloomberg terminal for the residential industry.
Bohn, who took the role in March, opened his remarks by noting he had been mistaken for the singer Pitbull twice in one day at the conference. He asked the audience to adjust expectations accordingly.
He said the platform, referred to as Inman 2.0, is designed to consolidate the fragmented sources agents and brokers currently rely on for news and data.
“We are building the Bloomberg of residential real estate, the definitive community of the profession,” Bohn said.
He compared the fragmentation agents face today to how traders once worked before consolidated terminals existed, saying real estate professionals currently pull news from dozens of scattered sources and data locked inside platforms with competing interests.
Bohn’s first major address since taking over from Brad Inman
The opening remarks at Connect marked one of Bohn’s first major public addresses since succeeding Brad Inman, who founded the company in 1996. Bohn credited Inman with recognizing early that real estate professionals needed dedicated industry journalism, and said he intends to build on that foundation rather than depart from it.
Bohn framed the past two years of industry disruption, including commission lawsuit fallout and shifting agent-client relationships, as a turning point rather than a decline.
“What comes out at the other side of a moment like that is a profession that knows exactly what it’s worth,” Bohn said.
He asked the audience directly whether they believed their best days as agents, brokers and proptech professionals were still ahead of them. The room answered with applause.
A call for 1,000 citizen reporters
Central to the platform’s rollout is a push for agents and brokers to contribute local reporting directly. Bohn announced Inman is recruiting 1,000 agents and brokers to serve as citizen reporters, providing on-the-ground coverage from their own markets.
“A national newsroom like Inman, as good as we are, cannot stand on 1,000 street corners at the same time,” Bohn said.
He said Inman’s existing editorial staff will continue producing coverage alongside the citizen reporter program, not in place of it.
“We will always have the best professional journalists in real estate,” Bohn said. “That’s not changing.”
Agents interested in participating can sign up starting this week, according to Bohn.
Inman introduces 2026 Advisory Council
Bohn also introduced Inman’s 2026 Advisory Council during his remarks, encouraging attendees to connect with council members throughout the conference.
He said the council was assembled to bring outside expertise into the company’s direction. Bohn described the group as engaged with the industry and available to talk with attendees this week.
Bohn also previewed a coming integration between Inman and Breezy, an AI assistant tool for agents that launched roughly three months ago. He said the companies are working to surface Inman news and data inside Breezy’s assistant, though he did not provide a timeline.
