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John Sable, co-founder and senior vice president of booj, and Ben Rubenstein, founder and CEO of Opcity, talk to moderator Wendy Forsythe about building their companies and their subsequent exits at Inman Connect Las Vegas.

Figure offers fast-close home equity lines of credit and an iBuyer alternative to reverse mortgages.

The We Company, the parent company of coworking giant WeWork, filed papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that reveal $1.9 billion in losses last year.

In a conversation at Inman Connect Las Vegas, team leaders DJ DellaSalla, of the DJ & Lindsey Team, and Justin Havre, of Justin Havre & Associates (RE/MAX), shared how they built profitable teams that continue to grow.

Market trends and emerging businesses and tools are hampering the dream of buying a home for the 19 million millennials who want to and have the income to do so but are still renting.

News and info flies at us 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Sure, we skim through a lot of information. But do we really need to burn our energy providing thoughts on an article where we’ve only read the headline?

Spyglass Realty owner and team leader Ryan Rodenbeck was sent reeling when his top producer quit. Less than two years after that wake-up call, the team won a citywide best workplace award. Here, Rodenbeck shares what he learned and how it enabled him to build a stronger, more collaborative team that works hard and plays hard together.

A wave of unmarried, childless elderly people are likely to shape the future of housing. These “solo agers” must make big decisions about the course of their lives without input from loved ones. That includes their housing situations.

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate is expanding its Southern California presence with a merger and a new affiliation, giving it 13 California-affiliated brokerages and more than 1,500 agents in the state.

The fiddle leaf fig and Pilea peperomioides are growing in popularity on Instagram. Which plant is best for your home design plans?

Chance the Rapper’s latest track mentions a single mom who “called up the RE/MAX and opened her own site.” The woman in question? The Grammy-winning artist’s mother-in-law, Janice Corley.

“Branding is evoking emotions and feelings from our customers, right? So it’s so important for us to stay very focused on the fact that those emotions and those feelings give us the opportunity in our business to grow more in-depth relationships,” Renee Funk, team leader at eXp Realty, said onstage at Inman Connect Las Vegas.

Brick and Mortar Ventures, a firm that thinks of itself as the "Fifth Wall of construction," announced Tuesday that it now has nearly $100 million to pour into high tech startups.

Following two straight quarters of North American agent count declines, Keller Williams added nearly 3,000 associates in the second quarter.

Existing-home sales activity lagged in June with single-family home sales falling 1.5 percent to 4.69 million units, according to the report.

Onstage at Inman Connect Las Vegas, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Metro Brokers’ Craig McClelland and Hunter Rowe Real Estate owner Mike Regan discussed their efforts to build brokerages that are “departmentalized” to free up staff members’ time and allow them to focus.

Automation, automation, automation — oh, and taking the time to call your agents and remind them that you value them. These are the keys to mastering recruiting, productivity and retention — at least as three panelists explained it at the Inman Connect Las Vegas Thrive Broker Workshop.

Similar to April, 3.6 percent of mortgages were in some stage of delinquency in May, according to a new study released Monday.

As a real estate agent, you are bound to encounter probably far more than one uncomfortable situation. Here are some of the most common awkward scenarios you might run into plus advice (from agents who’ve lived it) on how to handle them like a pro.

In this monthly advice column, the Marketing Mastermind, regular Inman columnist Christy Murdock Edgar, answers three burning questions. This month’s topic: privacy matters. Where is the line between maintaining your privacy while also keeping an authentic social media presence?