Inman Intel: Insights & Research
For weeks, the eyes of real estate's agents and leadership were on the Sitzer | Burnett trial. They shared their thoughts and fears as part of Intel's monthly real estate sentiment survey
Inman Intel Index Highlights
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Anywhere agents who responded to Intel's survey in January said their brokerage has announced it will be switching to Compass tech platforms. Another 39% said their brokerage has not provided guidance on this yet.
40%
of agent respondents in January said they had negotiated compensation with at least one recent buyer — a share that has dipped in recent months but remains higher than at any point before May.
1 in 3
agent respondents in January said their buyer pipelines were worse off than the same time last year, down from nearly 1 in 2 October
55%
of brokerage leaders surveyed in January told Intel they were concerned about the state of the economy. That's as low as any point since the U.S. announced a wide array of reciprocal tariffs on foreign imports in April.
A majority of potential buyers say they're open to paying their agents in the wake of legal threats to commissions, according to results from a joint survey conducted by Inman with Dig Insights
CEO Carrie Wheeler told Intel that Opendoor wants to purchase 2,000-plus homes per month and that the company is leaning into partnerships like the ones it has with Zillow and eXp
Welcome Homes, a hybrid homebuilder and proptech company, announced its new 'Make-an-Offer' module and an artificial intelligence-backed land analysis report on Wednesday
The rebrand was driven by a number of business factors, such as ongoing confusion with the web bank of the same name and its evolution far beyond customer relationship management
Agents and teams at Century 21, Sotheby’s International Realty and Coldwell Banker, among others, will have access to the software as part of an enterprise-level agreement
Announced to the audience at the 2023 T3 Sixty Tech Summit was a 'new generation' of Lone Wolf solutions constructed to run on the connected Lone Wolf Foundation platform
After a $13M Series A in May, led by Peter Flint's NFX, the brokerage-as-a-service platform secured a Series B in the same amount, also from Flint
Real estate companies have been trapped in a repeating cycle of bad financial quarters. Will this latest round of earnings break the loop, or is the industry doomed to relive it?
Zillow is shoring up its Home Loans business by ratcheting up pressure on Flex agents, who refer clients to the mortgage arm or risk losing future leads, real estate advisor Mike DelPrete writes
The '401(k) for homeownership' helps first-time buyers achieve their savings goals with 4.51% APY high-yield savings accounts, as well as educational tools and matching with agents and lenders
The Saskatchewan Realtors Association’s 1,700 members will benefit from the innovative tech company’s ability to extract and use actionable data about properties from still images
The user mark represents a 598%, 3-year revenue increase and the notoriety of being named to the Inc. 5000 list of the country’s fastest growing private companies
The founding real estate agents of Christie's International Real Estate San Francisco | Marin | Wine Country hail from The Payton + Binnings Team and boast $200M in transactions annually
Corcoran will launch Corcoran Horizon Realty in Toronto, Ontario, through its partnership with the brokerage formerly known as Rego Realty
First-time buyers are less likely than homeowners to be holding out for lower mortgage rates. But they hold a host of other priorities and concerns, according to an Intel analysis of buyer behavior
In the opening remarks of CoStar Group's Q3 earnings call Tuesday, CEO Andy Florance revealed to investment analysts the company's grand plan to make Homes.com the portal of the future