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If you are a real estate agent or Realtor who has not tapped the potential of digital marketing, you're missing out on a world of opportunities. Here are seven digital marketing tips that'll have you reeling in the leads in no time.

From large corporations to individual agents, giving back is becoming more mainstream. If you’ve made the decision to make charitable work part of your business, it’s time to think through execution. Here are a few ideas we’ve seen work well in the industry.

If you want to improve your property descriptions, here are some of the best tips, tricks and hints to help. Consider this your property description boot camp.

A real estate agent who stole more than $22 million from her clients over two years has been sentenced to prison time, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced.

The Trump administration is preparing to nominate Mark Calabria to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the agency tasked with overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

After reaching out to pilot brokerages and multiple listing services nationwide, it appears brokerages may not be using Upstream at all.

Michael Cohen, the lawyer who previously represented Donald Trump, was sentenced to three years in prison for lying about the president's real estate projects.

Realtor.com has added a new feature for mobile users to grant them the ability get an immediate connection to a real estate agent through text message.

For purchase mortgages, across all loan types, the net share of lenders reporting demand growth over the previous three months clocked the lowest reading for any fourth quarter since the Fannie Mae survey's inception in 2014.

Bidding wars for homes have dropped to their lowest level in eight years, according to Redfin, but competition still remains strong in the nation’s hottest markets.

For some real estate agents, the pressure to give off a flawless appearance leads to plastic surgery and costly, age-defying medical procedures.

More than three-quarters of all homes on the market will sell below asking price, Knock, the home-resale company, projected in a national forecast.

Although the overwhelming consensus is that the technology offers real benefits to agents, many users told Inman this week that it's also limited by high costs, concerns about privacy and a rapidly evolving technology market.

By arming clients with facts upfront, you not only establish trust, but facilitate and expedite the decision-making process for your clients, which leads to increased sales. Here are six ways agents can employ real estate data and studies to build trust-based client relationships that grow your revenue stream.

A lie, no matter how seemingly small, can throw a huge wrench into the buying and selling process. Here are 10 common lies real estate agents hear all the time.

Regular Inman contributor Jay Thompson talks through a variety of crimes on real estate agents and why we can’t wait for the next one to change what we’re doing.

If you’ve ever had a package snatched from your front door, you’re not alone. According to new data from insuranceQuotes.com, 8 percent of the population — 26.1 million people — have had parcels swiped by so-called "porch pirates" during the holidays alone.

StreetEasy is raising its listing fee from $3 to $4.50, the New York City-based subsidiary of Zillow announced Tuesday. 

In this monthly advice column, Marketing Mastermind Christy Murdock Edgar answers three burning questions from the real estate industry at large. This month’s topic: creating an unforgettable client experience.

According to the latest study by data scientists at VantageScore Solutions, a scoring model still struggling to gain acceptance by the federal agency that regulates the two secondary mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, millennials have similar income and asset levels as most homebuyers.