ICNY Wrap
Another Connect down. Brad and the Inman team keep executing, and expanding, the conference into a must-attend event in residential real estate. By all accounts, Hacker Connect — the technologist-focused event, which debuted on Monday — was a success, but left many exhausted who faced a week straight of the endless connecting that Connect stimulates.
Machine learning + the great CRM integration
Customer relationship management platforms are amazingly powerful and increasingly central to everything real estate agents do. That’s why there’s a glut of them in the market — Contactually, Follow Up Boss, Top Producer, Chime, Firepoint, Wise Agent, BoomTown, Commissions Inc. (CINC), Kunversion.
Inman Connect SF 2016: Day 1
Inman’s sprawling, energetic conference kicked off today in downtown San Francisco. It used to be that Tuesdays before the conference were sleepy — not anymore, especially with today being free.
SQFT and the end-to-end digital real estate transaction dream
The role of the real estate agent is changing. That’s clear. Read the hybrid broker special report I helped produce while at Inman. Part of what spurred the report was an increasing prevalence of savvy real estate brokers and agents building business models around the recognition that the digital era has made agents’ work, especially on the listing side, so much easier.
Real estate’s arc heading into 2016
Working on a project recently, I wanted to dive into real estate’s current, get a sophisticated, nuanced, insightful 12-month picture of where it is, where it’s been and where it may be headed.
Zillow Group hackathon winners
Holmes, besides having the best name of Zillow Group’s inaugural zip.Code event, took home the people’s choice title for its mobile app that allows consumers to find homes using augmented reality. It was one of the event’s seven winning teams.