Top-producing agents and brokers often say real estate is about relationships, not sales. And as the Internet becomes a larger part of everyone’s daily lives those business-dependent relationships will be increasingly developed, nurtured and started online. That’s why real estate’s ...

More than 8 out of 10 Inman News readers say they plan to apply for their own “.realtor” domain — suggesting the Internet could soon see 800,000 new real estate agent websites if the National Association of Realtors’ 1 million ...

In the first mortgage-fraud case brought by the federal government to ever go to trial, a jury found Bank of America’s Countrywide unit liable for selling thousands of bad mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the run-up to ...

Online credit monitoring startup Credit Karma is now offering consumers weekly credit reports and scores that are “actually free, not free*,” writes TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez. As someone who plans to apply for a new mortgage soon, Perez says she’s been ...

CityRealty, a property listing and agent referral resource covering New York City, has rolled out a revamped website that features colorful neighborhood guides that include virtual aerial imagery of neighborhoods and popular buildings. The site’s neighborhood profiles are bursting with ...

The way Donald Trump remembers it, he was willing to pay Vera Coking millions of dollars and provide her with free housing for life in one of his luxury high-rises if she’d sell him a 29-room boarding house in Atlantic ...

In the articles I've read dissecting the events of the last few days, I've been surprised to find virtually no reference to what I believe is a key part of the value proposition of a combined Zillow and Trulia: the monetization of products and services that precede, are needed for, or follow the purchase of a home. The elephant in the room with all these services is mortgages ...

There are some basic truths when it comes to building a successful real estate career. I know because when I canvassed some of our industry's top leaders, time and again the similar themes emerged! ...

Homebuyers ask for pictures and they want lots of them. They want great photographs that they can look at on their computer screens, tablets or smartphones. The way buyers look for homes has really changed now that everything is on the Internet. ...

The opportunity to buy three adjoining condos at The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton New York and combine them into a single 15,434-square-foot “mega-unit” could be worth $118.5 million to a wealthy, space-hungry buyer. That’s what Nest Seekers’ Ryan Serhant was ...