As Inman's '5 Challenges' series wraps up, take a look back at how Keller Williams, Compass, Zillow and 6 other major players will contend with low inventory, rapid growth and more in 2022
In a year that seemed like a reprise of 2020 — call it '2020 Light' — the past 12 months have been filled with anxiety. Take a walk down memory lane as Inman reveals its most-read stories of 2021
2021's legacy to proptech will be a major jump in the number of technology products developed to help agents show homes
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What ShowingTime really had going for it before its acquisition was timing. It was first to market, the first to get its toe in the MLS door. What it lacks is the industry experience and collective mass intelligence that its new alternatives now have going for it
2021 came with Realtor misbehavior, rising legal and regulatory scrutiny and MLSs becoming tech investors after Zillow's acquisition of ShowingTime
Initially launched as a solution to help listing agents better manage how they schedule and arrange home showings, the company has since evolved to address the multitude of agent needs on the front-end of the deal
The year saw explosive rivalries, wild stock market performances and plenty of rage
Finally, COVID-19 wasn't at the heart of the year's prevailing real estate technology trends. Instead, 2021 was marked by notable acquisitions and the fallout from the biggest of them all
The latest Swanepoel Trends Report finds that recent years have seen a wave of acquisitions, and that COVID-19 accelerated migration away from pricy metro areas
The company announced its latest management tool, which it bills as a direct competitor to the widely used ShowingTime product
The new tools will let agents conduct live video tours and send out automated emergency texts if or when they run into trouble
Realtracs Showings comes amid an ongoing race to build alternatives to ShowingTime, which Zillow acquired earlier this year
BeachesMLS is the latest mega MLS to join MLS Aligned as the joint venture gears up to release Aligned Showings
The popular portal raked in $1.7B during the third quarter of 2021, though it also lost $328M — much of it from iBuying
The move should take several quarters and will also result in Zillow reducing its workforce by about 25 percent