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News and info flies at us 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Sure, we skim through a lot of information. But do we really need to burn our energy providing thoughts on an article where we’ve only read the headline?

Market trends and emerging businesses and tools are hampering the dream of buying a home for the 19 million millennials who want to and have the income to do so but are still renting.

In a conversation at Inman Connect Las Vegas, team leaders DJ DellaSalla, of the DJ & Lindsey Team, and Justin Havre, of Justin Havre & Associates (RE/MAX), shared how they built profitable teams that continue to grow.

Chance the Rapper’s latest track mentions a single mom who “called up the RE/MAX and opened her own site” The woman in question? The Grammy-winning artist’s mother-in-law, Janice Corley.

Following two straight quarters of North American agent count declines, Keller Williams added nearly 3,000 associates in the second quarter.

Brick and Mortar Ventures, a firm that thinks of itself as the "Fifth Wall of construction," announced Tuesday that it now has nearly $100 million to pour into high tech startups.

“Branding is evoking emotions and feelings from our customers, right? So it’s so important for us to stay very focused on the fact that those emotions and those feelings give us the opportunity in our business to grow more in-depth relationships.” Renee Funk, team leader at eXp Realty, said onstage at Inman Connect Las Vegas.

Onstage at Inman Connect Las Vegas, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Metro Brokers’ Craig McClelland and Hunter Rowe Real Estate owner Mike Regan discussed their efforts to build brokerages that “departmentalized” to free up staff members’ time and allow them to focus.

Existing-home sales activity lagged in June, with single-family home sales falling 1.5 percent to 4.69 million units, according to the report.

Real estate brokers and experts outline what a buyer should know before purchasing a property at an auction house.

Ginger Glass, the nation's 71st-ranked real estate agent in sales volume according to Real Trends, is making the move from Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Southern California to Compass. Glass is the second high-profile departure from the own-side NRT brokerage to Compass in Southern California in a week. 

The software platform now integrates with KW Command and its mobile app is the exclusive provider of custom websites and pay-per-lead services.

Real estate veterans Dolly Lenz and Patrick Stone discuss how first-time buyers will impact the market and why they are "cautiously optimistic" about the year ahead onstage at Inman Connect Las Vegas.

Kingston Lane's The Machine is a new marketing automation platform for agents to win more appointments.

In this monthly advice column, the Marketing Mastermind, regular Inman columnist Christy Murdock Edgar, answers three burning questions. This month’s topic: privacy matters. Where is the line between maintaining your privacy while also keeping an authentic social media presence?