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HomeSmart, Colorado's largest real estate brokerage by agent count, is adding a new office in Colorado Springs to add to its already large footprint in the Rocky Mountain State. 

Zillow quietly removed language from the contract of its newest lead generation tool after Realtors complained and wondered if the contract’s requirements would have them violate the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice of the National Association of Realtors.

The United States added 312,000 jobs in December, including 8,100 in the real estate and rental leasing sector, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

The week's top real estate industry stories, plus Inman's top stories from 2018.

A bundle of new regulations is poised to make Massachusetts the first state with a registry of short-term, Airbnb-style rentals.

Data from market research firm Parks Associates indicates that 25 percent of U.S. households with broadband plan to buy a smart video doorbell this year.

Closing costs are on the rise (thanks mostly to taxes), so how can first-time buyers on a tight budget make sure they will have enough cash on hand before they sign a contract? Find out here what programs and data are available to help.

Here’s a walkthrough of the realities of launching a successful real estate career and growing an online presence by leveraging the most powerful and cost-effective tool — social media.

Compass CEO Robert Reffkin highlighted the trials and tribulations of a watershed year of expansion in an end-of-year email delivered to staff and agents, obtained by Inman.

Delta Media Group's DeltaNet is an enterprise platform that offers a multifaceted business and marketing management solution for midsize and large brokerages.

The new venture "Go iBuyer" is focused on buying up multifamily rental properties, raising the rents and then reselling them.

With no end in sight to market volatility, managing client jitteriness is likely to be one of Realtors' primary responsibilities in the coming months.

The housing market ended 2018 on a low note, with listing inventory up 5 percent nationwide and as much as 10 percent in the nation's largest metros.

With 42 percent of buyers finding their agents by referral, you should focus on the easiest way to get referrals — content marketing. Here's how to get started and keep it consistent.

The thread that ties these metros together is affordability — something that buyers have struggled to find over the past few years as supply has failed to meet demand.

It’s the first time the median numbers in Manhattan have fallen below $1 million in three years, according to Douglas Elliman's fourth-quarter market report for Manhattan. The median condo or co-op sold for $999,000, 10.6 percent lower than last quarter and 5.8 percent lower than the fourth quarter of 2017. 

If you want to have your best year ever in 2019, a written business plan is a must. What does it take to create a business plan that you will follow throughout the entire year? Here's how you do it in nine easy steps.

The new year is here, and like many real estate pros, Jay Thompson has gathered a number of predictions he suspects will come true in the next 12 months.

Douglas Elliman CEO Dottie Herman has sold $40 million shares of stock in the company, until now one of the few female-owned real estate entities operating in the United States, according to announcement Monday by Vector Group, the brokerage's parent company.

Developed by an NYC top producer, Stacks is designed to help high-performing agents manage only the most important data required to get deals done.