Inman News
- Merger creates new Coldwell Banker franchise in Northern California
- June 18, 2013
- Two leading Solano County, Calif., brokerages have merged and affiliated with franchisor Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. The merger of Vacaville-based Kappel & Kappel Realty Inc. with Solano Gateway Realty Inc. in Fairfield beefs up Coldwell Banker’s presence along the ...
- Imagining the real estate industry, 5 years out
- June 18, 2013
- What will the real estate industry look like five years from now, and how can brokers and agents prepare for it? Leaders of four companies that have been at the forefront of change — Redfin, Trulia, Zillow and Move Inc. ...
- Floored voted best real estate tech startup at Realogy summit
- June 18, 2013
- Floored, which creates interactive 3-D floor plans that allow users to walk through a virtual recreation of an actual space, was voted the best real estate tech startup today at the Realogy FWD Innovation Summit, hosted at the real estate ...
- Move, MSN renew content-sharing agreement
- June 18, 2013
- Realtor.com operator Move Inc. has renewed a content-sharing agreement with MSN that allows consumers to access Move’s property listings and related information from MSN Real Estate, the sixth-most popular real estate site in the U.S. Under the agreement, Move will continue ...
- Report: Franchising rights for ERA Asian-Pacific region up for sale
- June 18, 2013
- Franchising rights to provide services to ERA Real Estate-affiliated brokerages in 18 Asian-Pacific countries are up for sale, and could fetch up to $160 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Singapore-based Hersing Corp., which holds ERA franchise rights in China, ...
- Coldwell Banker expands in Connecticut
- June 18, 2013
- Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has acquired the assets of Century 21 Greengarden Realty Inc., a 63-agent brokerage in Bridgeport, Conn. Century 21 Greengarden Realty’s Bridgeport office will merge into the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office located at 2 Corporate Drive ...
- $100 million listing comes with owner
- June 18, 2013
- Forbes’ annual list of America’s most expensive homes identifies more than 30 properties priced at $60 million and up — including a 47-acre estate halfway between San Francisco and Silicon Valley whose owner, Christian de Guigne IV, has placed a ...
- Properties Online will build websites for all Century 21 listings
- June 18, 2013
- Realogy Holdings Corp. franchisor Century 21 Real Estate LLC has hired Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Properties Online Inc. to build custom property websites for every listing that appears on the company’s website. The unique property websites will be generated at no ...
- LA landlord converting office buildings into apartments
- June 18, 2013
- Jamison Services Inc., which owns 60 office buildings in the Los Angeles market, is converting five of them into multifamily residences and looking for other opportunities to capitalize on rising demand from apartment renters, Bloomberg reports. Source: bloomberg.com ...
- Zillow launches collaborative home search tool
- June 18, 2013
- Zillow Inc. has launched a mobile-enabled collaborative home search and shopping tool, Agentfolio, that’s aimed at buy-side agents and their clients, allowing them to search, comment on, review and share homes they are interested in. The tool — which is ...
- MarketVideos.com: the next best thing to hit real estate video marketing
- June 18, 2013
- One of the biggest challenges in real estate marketing today is creating video content. Let’s face it, agents are not meant to be self-producing video creators. There is a learning curve to production, post-production, equipment, storyboarding, and the list goes on. And yet, ...
- Real estate tech startup gathering to be held in NYC tomorrow
- June 18, 2013
- CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story stated that the Meetup would take place tonight. In fact, it will take place tomorrow. In an effort to foster cross-pollination between real estate tech entrepreneurs, monthly Meetups are being held in venues ...
- ‘Disparate impact’ doctrine troubling property owners, mortgage lenders
- June 18, 2013
- Two federal lawsuits brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week spotlights an issue that is getting increasing attention from home mortgage lenders, rental property owners, local governments, and now the U.S. Supreme Court: “disparate impact.” Disparate impact is ...
- Carrington Real Estate expands into Colorado, Michigan
- June 17, 2013
- Carrington Real Estate Services LLC has added brokerage offices in Colorado and Michigan, bringing the number of states where it has agents on the ground to ...
- Fannie, Freddie regulator hires insurance lobbyist as adviser
- June 17, 2013
- The federal agency that regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has raised eyebrows by hiring a lawyer and insurance industry lobbyist to advise it on force-placed insurance. Charles Landgraf “played a key early role in coordinating Fannie Mae and Freddie ...
- LoanDepot plans to employ 1,000 at new Texas facility
- June 17, 2013
- California-based direct retail mortgage lender LoanDepot.com LLC plans to have 1,000 people on staff within the next few years at a Plano, Texas, facility the company opened last week. Source: dallasnews.com ...
- Be the go-to luxury specialist in your market
- June 17, 2013
- Do you have what it takes to be the agent who represents the most luxurious properties in your marketplace? While taking classes can help you be better prepared to represent luxury clients, the real key to your success results from ...
- Don’t be led astray by ‘turntable metrics’
- June 17, 2013
- I was listening to Alec Baldwin’s “Here’s the Thing” podcast the other day. It’s a great podcast in a conversational interview style. Baldwin was interviewing Billy Joel. Aside from Baldwin’s generally good-natured interview style, this one was especially good because ...
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