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The typical American existing home has sold for more than $400,000 for the first time, even as pending sales fall for the fourth straight week and economic uncertainty keeps buyers on the sidelines.

Learn how to realign your professional and personal strengths to beat burnout and reclaim your real estate momentum.

Listings are being pulled in Boston. In Miami, international buyers and travelers are flooding in. Here's how the 2026 World Cup is reshaping both markets.

Give renters options they currently don’t even know exist, coach Verl Workman writes, and let's make homeownership a reality for more people. 

When it comes to setting a price for your listing, coach Darryl Davis writes, your job is not to convince the homeowner. Your job is to educate the homeowner.

EXp World Holdings is now AGNT, Inc. The company teased the name change when it updated its Nasdaq ticker to AGNT in May.

The leaders who outperform over a full cycle aren't always the ones who predicted when conditions would improve. They're the ones who stayed close to their business during the hard part, asked better questions and built the habits that let their teams move fast when the window opened.

Brokerage leaders are making increasingly difficult decisions about where their operational investments matter most.

CoStar filed an amicus brief in support of Compass and MRED MLS, saying the portal's pre-marketing program undercuts any criticism it has of private listing networks.

Kimberly Vu pretended to be a real estate agent and took security deposits and first month's rent from dozens of victims.

Rechat is opening its app-building platform to any brokerage, letting teams build and deploy custom tools on top of its MLS integrations, CRM data, and compliance infrastructure — without starting from scratch.

Google is expanding its HouseCanary-powered home-listing ads nationwide, bringing more home listings into mobile search results.

Inman recognizes more than 150 mortgage and finance professionals for leadership, innovation and lasting impact on the homebuying experience.

Realtor.com's report revealed sellers' power dwindles after four weeks — potentially leaving a 1.8 percent premium on the table.

The form asks sellers to represent that a property has not been publicly or privately marketed during a defined pre-listing period.

The Agency, Century 21, Chestersons Global and other industry brands made moves last week.

The industry talks about independent brokerages as if they have two choices: stay small and local, or scale up and lose what made them special. But there is a middle lane, new Inman contributor Korrin Ziswiler writes.

Inman Intel data shows a disconnect between the AI tools brokerages are providing and the ones that agents are actually using, coach Darryl Davis writes.

Christina Balas helps you develop the weekly habits that create the structure, focus and consistency needed to support clients at a high level.