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Realogy: Transaction volume up 14 percent in Q1
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Real estate brokerage and franchise giant Realogy Holdings Corp. said transaction volume (the change in median homesale price plus the change in the number of existing homesales) was up 14 percent from a year ago during the first three months of the ...

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Listing Checkout aims to simplify flat-fee referrals
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Continental Real Estate Group Inc. has launched a nationwide referral network that's intended to make it much easier for flat-fee brokers to both send referrals to other brokers and receive them. Currently, many flat-fee brokers — known as ...

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HomeJab.com shoots, hosts, and promotes listing videos
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A Philadelphia real estate investor has teamed up with two videographers to offer real estate professionals high definition video tours at set prices, posting the videos on the company's website, HomeJab.com, and promoting them virally through social ...

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LinkedIn lets users add visual content to profiles
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LinkedIn introduced changes to its user profile today that allow people to add different forms of visual content to their profiles in order to help showcase a “unique professional story,” the company announced in a blog post. The revamp, which LinkedIn ...

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If you pursue international clients, be prepared to serve them
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I had just asked my client if her brokerage was doing much business with Chinese customers. I could see the machines starting to gear up in the back of her mind. I knew what was coming next. “I would totally do business with Chinese customers,” she said.

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Mentors announced for 'Inman Incubator' startup accelerator program
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Inman News has announced the mentors who are participating in the Inman Incubator real estate startup accelerator program. The Inman Incubator is a year long mentorship, advisory and promotional program to help up to 25 new companies in the real ...

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Meet the Mentors of Inman News' Real Estate Incubator Program - PRWeb
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Inman News™, the leader in independent real estate and technology news, announces the mentors participating in its real estate startup accelerator program, Inman Incubator. The Inman Incubator is a year long mentorship, advisory and promotional ...

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N-Play moves to Windows Azure cloud platform
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Real estate app company N-Play says it's moved all of its services to Microsoft's cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, citing the platform's flexibility, reliability, scalability and reduced overhead. Integration with Windows Azure means better ...

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Title agencies can build branded SureClose portals
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Title agencies using PropertyInfo Corp.'s SureClose transaction management system can now create their own SureClose Web portal featuring their company's branding and custom hyperlinks for clients to use when collaborating with title agents.

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Email keeps evolving
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I can't tell you how many times over the years I've read about the impending demise of email. There's been a long line of purported successors jockeying for position, aiming to disrupt the space. Various social channels, SMS and instant messaging ...

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Lead-to-close platform EZ Coordinator beefs up its CRM
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EZ Coordinator, the year-old transaction management platform from San Francisco-based Sequent Systems, has upgraded the platform to more fully integrate customer relationship management (CRM) into its operation and ad reporting. Now integrated with ...

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PennyMac IPO could exceed $200M
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PennyMac Financial Services Inc., a mortgage banking and investment management firm founded in 2008 with strategic partners BlackRock and Highfields, is planning to sell 11.1 million shares in an initial public offering that it expects will price ...

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Get a life outside of real estate
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Do you miss important events because your clients are so demanding? Do you believe that you have to be available 24-7 to succeed? If so, these beliefs may not only be undermining your business success, they can be creating long-term damage to your ...

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Website developer Placester raises $2.5 million
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Cambridge, Mass.-based real estate website platform Placester has landed $2.5 million in funding it will use to expand the number of multiple listing services that it partners with, build out its website design library and more fully support developers ...

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Housing-led recovery will take time
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A lot of movement under the covers. Although few sounds, nobody talking, most of the lumps are recognizable. Long-term rates have fallen here and everywhere since late March, and have taken a new leg down today, 10-year Treasurys to 1.67 percent for ...

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How the IRS defines 'real estate pro'
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If you're a landlord (or want to be one), there has never been a better time to be a real estate professional. If you satisfy complex IRS rules and qualify as a real estate professional, the passive activity loss rules will not apply to limit the ...

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Marketing tricks from this week's #madREskillz
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The tweets below are entries for this week's #madREskillz, a weekly Inman News Twitter conversation aimed at ferreting out offbeat marketing strategies. Participate by tweeting an unusual marketing tactic every Thursday and tagging it with #madREskillz.

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Walk Score 'ChoiceMaps' show depth of neighborhood amenities
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Amid growing interest in how access to amenities impacts neighborhood desirability and property values, Walk Score recently debuted a new feature that enables people to gauge the range of choice people in certain areas have over different conveniences, ...

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Agents' fealty to broker on permanent display
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This post explores a marketing tactic submitted by Rapid Realty, the first winner of #madREskillz, a weekly Inman News Twitter conversation. Every Thursday, Inman News invites real estate professionals and companies to tweet offbeat marketing ploys ...

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Why confine your networking to other agents?
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Real estate is my second or third career, and there is no way of knowing if it will be my last. After working for more than a decade in the industry, there are things that I don't understand about the culture, and why there is so much emphasis on ...

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