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California-based proptech leader RealScout has launched the latest addition to its award-winning suite of lead generation tools. The new product, Search Links, enables agents, teams and brokerages to distill popular home search parameters — such as listings under $5 million in Los Angeles or beachfront condos in Miami — into a personalized landing page that consumers can access in one click. RealScout’s platform tracks traffic to the page and generates automated follow-ups to convert visitors to clients. Whether it’s refining your business model, mastering new technologies, or discovering strategies to capitalize on the next market surge, Inman Connect New York will prepare…

People wanting to know what to expect from the 2025 housing market have no shortage of economic forecasts from companies in the real estate industry to thumb through. Redfin economists Daryl Fairweather and Chen Zhao are the latest to weigh in. They project home prices to rise by 4% over the course of 2025, with existing home sales clocking in at a range between 4.1 million and 4.4 million. This outlook is a bit more optimistic than the forecast from HousingWire. Conducted by HousingWire Lead Analyst Logan Mohtashami and Altos Research President Mike Simonsen, the forecast projects existing-home sales at…

This report was originally published on Nov. 18, 2024, exclusively for subscribers of Intel, the data and research arm of Inman. Subscribe to Inman Intel for a deeper analysis of the business of real estate. Throughout much of the U.S., the housing market’s trajectory has been simple to describe, at least in broad strokes. New listings and home transactions remain depressed amid a period of stubbornly high mortgage rates, even as signs exist that a slow recovery may be well underway. Inventory levels have been replenishing gradually after years of being stretched thin. This story isn’t about those trends. An Intel analysis…

Recruitment efforts have been a mainstay of The Real Brokerage‘s growth efforts in 2024. And the digital brokerage platform continues to grow this week with another affiliation. Real announced Wednesday the affiliation of ROVI Homes, a brokerage operating in the New England states of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, as well as Sarasota, Florida. Following this move, 150 agents are joining Real’s platform and strengthening its presence in ROVI’s areas. Steve Rovithis ROVI Homes arrived on the scene in 2015. CEO Steve Rovithis founded the company to offer agents and clients alternative methods to “traditional franchise models.” Since then, ROVI…

President-elect Trump meets with Scott Turner, his nominee to lead HUD. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The day after Donald Trump won office, the mood at a Miami real-estate conference was celebratory, according to The Real Deal. It wasn’t because the president-elect had campaigned on any policies that would boost the industry. If anything, his threat to raise tariffs with China and to deport migrants by the thousands would raise construction costs, even if as-yet-unknown tax breaks might help developers. Instead, the crowd seemed hopeful because of who Trump is: a real-estate guy who sees the world like they do. And…

EXp Realty has secured another headline-making recruit, with “Real Housewives of Orange County” star Gina Kirschenheiter and her partner, Travis Mullen, joining the company as team leaders of The Gated Group. Whether it’s refining your business model, mastering new technologies, or discovering strategies to capitalize on the next market surge, Inman Connect New York will prepare you to take bold steps forward. The Next Chapter is about to begin. Be part of it. Join us and thousands of real estate leaders Jan. 22-24, 2025. EXp Realty has secured another headline-making recruit, with Real Housewives of Orange County star Gina Kirschenheiter and her partner, Travis Mullen, joining the company…

Michigan-based United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) has launched a new pricing incentive, offering 60 basis points (bps) to its broker partners for the next 60 days, a period when mortgage market activity typically slows due to the holiday season.  The program, dubbed “60bps for 60 Days,” applies to both conventional and government loans and is available to borrowers with a FICO score of 720 or higher. UWM’s goal is to “help independent mortgage brokers remain competitive in the current market landscape.” The offering is available through Jan. 31, 2025. “The purchase market usually slows down in the fourth quarter. The refi…

The estate — built around 1990 — has undergone extensive renovations after being purchased for $18 million in 2021, but local real estate agents say that some might consider the home a teardown and opt to raze it to make way for something more modern and imposing, “The WSJ” reported. Whether it’s refining your business model, mastering new technologies, or discovering strategies to capitalize on the next market surge, Inman Connect New York will prepare you to take bold steps forward. The Next Chapter is about to begin. Be part of it. Join us and thousands of real estate leaders Jan. 22-24, 2025.…

In this week’s episode of the RealTrending podcast, host Tracey Velt is joined by Danielle Wilkie, co-founder of The Helm, to discuss emerging trends in real estate, female representation in real estate coaching and artificial intelligence. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. To kick off the conversation, Wilkie explores her career path before she co-founded The Helm. Danielle Wilkie: As you know, women make up over two-thirds of real estate agents in the country. We found that less than a third actually make up nationally recognized coaches. When we saw that gap, we had to do something…

Seven Hudson Square, Disney’s new New York City HQ. Photo: Dave Burk/SOM Disney has arrived in Hudson Square in a shocking burst of good taste. Rather than entrust its corporate identity to Mickey, Donald & Belle, the company relied on Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which is not a trio of animated badgers but a global architecture firm. SOM, always an obvious choice for big developers, Middle Eastern governments, and growing universities, might seem less suited to a media juggernaut that, though surely as ruthless as any of those other clients, has also spent more than a century cranking out whimsy…