Real Estate Industry Overview & Trends
Catch up quickly on the most significant stories of the week, as determined by Inman readers. Here's this week's Inman Top 5
Deal geared at helping investors acquire and liquidate individual single-family rental properties, or entire portfolios, more efficiently
Opinion
This week, Bryon Lazine and Nicole White discuss a lawsuit that's fighting Oregon's ban on love letters, top changes from the NAR annual conference and Real Estate Creative's social media content
Vanessa Espinoza, California agent and former deputy public guardian for 7 of the Turpin siblings, is facing calls for the state to revoke her real estate license
The company announced its latest management tool, which it bills as a direct competitor to the widely used ShowingTime product
The San Francisco-based company's platform helps pair would-be real estate investors with friends or strangers who want to co-own property
The funding will be dedicated to sustaining Updater's current growth trend, which has seen the company climb to approximately 250 employees over the past 12 months
Company looking to buy smaller real estate brokerages in new or smaller geographic markets
Proceeds were to go to a company controlled by Ishbia family, which owns 93.6 percent of United Wholesale Mortgage
Catch up quickly on the most significant stories of the week, as determined by Inman readers. Here's this week's Inman Top 5
'I love the idea of being connected to top agents and top team leaders all over the country,' said Abby Realty founder Frank Gray, on move to eXp. 'They're welcoming us to the family, and showing us it's a helping culture'
Proceeds of non-dilutive, secondary offering of 50 million shares will go to company controlled by Ishbia family
The real estate conglomerate and auction house have joined forces to acquire luxury home marketplace Concierge Auctions for an undisclosed amount
Deal provides cloud banking solutions provider nCino with an entry point into the $4B US point-of-sale mortgage market
The franchise will be the brokerage's second in Colorado, and will be led by Kacey Bingham and Jared Blank, formerly of LIV Sotheby's International Realty
The city council just approved an effort that will look for strategies to stop iBuyers such as Opendoor and Redfin
The new tools will let agents conduct live video tours and send out automated emergency texts if or when they run into trouble