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Luxury Presence recently crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue. Founder and CEO Malte Kramer says one of the lessons behind that growth applies directly to real estate agents: it pays to be specific.

Quick Read Social posts are showing up in AI search answers, so write captions and titles like search content. Apple is blocking some ad tech firms in Safari, so ask your ad vendor how iPhone traffic is tracked. Amazon’s shopper profiles are a reminder to write CRM notes you’d let a client read. People say they’re tired of content built for algorithms, and more of them are commenting. An AI tool created this summary, which was based on the text of the article and checked by an editor.

See why spiking mortgage rates haven’t led agents to abandon all hope, through the lens of Inman’s Client Pipeline Tracker. Back near 7.5 percent, mortgage rates have been weighing heavily on real estate agents and their buyer clients, suppressing transactions and sending real estate limping deep into the fall. But that’s not all that’s going on. One particularly pessimistic class of listing agent has been quietly shrinking in recent Inman Intel Index surveys.

A Native American housing bill that would change mortgage rules for tribal homebuyers awaits Senate action on Indigenous Peoples Day, 30 years after Congress passed the main federal housing law for tribes. The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs approved S. 5354 on Sept. 23.

In this week’s America Answers column, America Foy shares what you need to know about the rules, regulations and potential pitfalls of condominium ownership so you can help your clients make the right choice between house or condo. I’m going to go out on a limb and predict condos come back in 2027. Condos, if you don’t know, are a hybrid type of property.

Whether you were there on-site or just want to get caught up on all the news from eXp Realty’s big event, here’s a roundup. We want to make sure you don’t miss a thing. Last week, Inman was live at eXpcon in Salt Lake City for all of the new product launches and big announcements from the growing cloud-based brokerage. Whether you were there on-site or just want to get caught up on all the news from eXp Realty’s big event, here’s a roundup. We want to make sure you don’t miss a thing.

If I wanted to grow my real estate business by an additional $100,000 in gross commission income next year, I wouldn’t start by looking for a new lead source, buying another piece of technology or completely reinventing my business. I’d start with the math. An extra $100,000 can feel like a huge goal when you look at it as one number. But once you reverse-engineer that number into transactions, conversations and daily activities, it becomes much more manageable.

Most real estate agents make listing videos that show the same things, like the kitchen, the bedrooms, the backyard and maybe a few drone shots. There’s nothing wrong with that, but what if you could showcase the property, highlight the surrounding community and create something that actually feels like social media, all in 23 seconds? That’s exactly what we did with a recent listing in University Heights, San Diego, using a simple whip transition trend.

The cloud-based brokerage announced on Friday that it would operate in Switzerland, Abu Dhabi and Mauritius as part of its continued global expansion. SALT LAKE CITY — eXp is increasing its footprint outside its core U.S. market by entering three new international spots, part of an ongoing global expansion, the company announced Friday.

Niki Rapattoni co-founded Rapattoni Corporation with her late husband, Andy, in 1970, and took over the CEO role after Andy’s death in 2015. Rapattoni Corporation co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board Niki Rapattoni, has died at 86, according to an announcement from the company.