Zillow’s mortgage ambitions ramp up with office opening Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:58:40 Zillow cut the ribbon on its Zillow Home Loans office today, in Overland Park, Kansas. The headquarters will serve as the main hub for its nascent mortgage program, which was launched in the wake of last year's acquisition of the Overland Park-based Mortgage Lenders of America. read more»
Amazon will match employee affordable housing donations Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:52:28 The online retailer will also contribute $8 million to nonprofits in Washington and Virginia. The pledge comes as a handful of companies promise to spend big on housing. read more»
Save and send text templates with TapText Thu, 20 Jun 2019 9:55:09 Industry CRMs heavily integrate text-marketing these days, and apps like TapText are emerging to help make texting proactive instead of reactive. read more»
Keeping It Real: How to organically grow your Instagram Thu, 20 Jun 2019 2:20:54 How do busy real estate agents grow an Instagram following? Listen in to hear this luxe broker's top two favorite apps for posting and tracking data on the social media mammoth. read more»
Everybody’s working for the weekend: 4 tips for work-life balance Thu, 20 Jun 2019 1:00:24 With great schedule flexibility comes great responsibility. Sure, you set up your own schedule and don’t have a boss looking over your shoulder, micromanaging your every move. But you probably work more weekends than the average person. Here are a few tips for making the most of your weekend while still killing it. read more»
7 open house pointers that’ll get you more traffic Thu, 20 Jun 2019 0:26:50 In a busy market full of smart consumers, you only have a short window to grab buyers’ attention and get them into your open house. Here are some crucial tips for getting buyers in the door and keeping them long enough to fall in love with the home. read more»
When lenders reject US veterans, who you gonna call? Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:00:35 NewDay USA has encountered controversy in its time doing business, but some brokers say that it can help veterans with traditionally low credit scores land reasonable loans. Veterans should just make sure that they enter the agreements with their eyes wide open. read more»
NAR’s tech accelerator REACH goes global Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:32:06 REACH — which first launched in 2013 and is part of NAR's Second Century Ventures investment fund — has worked with dozens of companies over the years including House Canary, BoxBrownie and BombBomb. The goal is to provide promising new companies with training, networking and other resources to further their growth. read more»
HUD secretary Ben Carson wants more cities to ditch single-family zoning Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:02:21 Ben Carson — who leads the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — made his comments Tuesday during a visit to Minneapolis, where lawmakers voted last year to ditch single-family zoning, which had previously dominated the city limits. Speaking to reporters, Carson suggested more cities should follow Minneapolis' example and drew a connection between zoning and homelessness. read more»
Top companies bet on Inman Connect Las Vegas Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:30:15 While Inman Connect attendees are booking their flights, getting hair cuts, ordering business cards, and reviewing the agenda, franchises, service and solution providers for the industry are also preparing. Because Inman Las Vegas isn’t just bigger, better, bolder in terms of content. That goes for our sponsors, too. read more»
Lennar partners with SkyNav in mixed-reality marketing Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:44:48 National homebuilder Lennar announced this week that it has partnered with San Francisco-based SkyNav to showcase a Summerville, South Carolina, master-planned community called Summer’s Corner. read more»
Chime ‘DAREs’ agents to try its new Facebook ad creation tool Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:04:21 It's designed to streamline the process of creating Facebook ads and capturing leads for Realtors, so they can tap the social media network for business without spending much time on it, generating Facebook ads for an agent's listings sourced from the MLS. It then can target the ads at prospective buyers on Facebook based on the agent's buyer preferences. read more»
