Reports
All reports researched and written by Inman News' award-winning journalists. Inman News is the the leading source of independent real estate news, information, advice, research, opinion and commentary for industry professionals and consumers alike.
- Industry Special Report
The Best of Real Estate Connect SF 2010
Startups eager to prove their mettle, real estate’s notables, and techies from Silicon Valley and beyond converged to share all things tech-related in the real estate industry at the 14th annual Inman News Real Estate Connect conference, held July 13-15, 2010, in San Francisco. The conference included a range of workshops, from the “Digital Marketing Bootcamp” to the “Broker Summit” and the “Connect Tech” geek-fest. This report also includes news stories from Agent Reboot, a one-day business tuneup for real estate professionals ...
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- Industry Special Report
The Truth About Shadow Inventory
The utterance of the term “shadow inventory” can conjure up fear, uncertainty and mystery about the future of the housing market.
First coined to describe the volume of lender-repossessed properties that haven’t yet reached the market as REOs (bank-owned listings), the term has been expanded by some to include homes in a foreclosure process and even those with delinquent loans that haven’t yet entered the foreclosure process.
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A New Decade in Real Estate
Inman News readers peered ahead to the year 2020 in a recent online real estate survey that drew over 500 responses.
They envision a future in which real estate services are increasingly fee-based, with fees varying based on services selected, or flat fees paid out for a complete package of services.
There will be fewer real estate professionals working in the year 2020, respondents also said, with fewer brokerage offices, real estate trade associations and multiple listings services.
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Rebuilding Homeownership
An Inman News Special Report
By Matt Carter and Andrea V. Brambila
The loss of homes, jobs and wealth, coupled with an environment of tighter lending, has locked some would-be homeowners out of the real estate market for years to come.
Foreclosure and personal bankruptcy can take a heavy toll on credit scores, which are a key in securing a home loan.
This report, "Rebuilding Homeownership," details the depleted pool of borrowers and the financial challenges ahead for some consumers to buy back in to the American Dream of homeownership.
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To Be a Broker
In a five-part series, real estate brokers surveyed by Inman News reveal their strategies for surviving the downturn and what they see as their competitive advantage, detail segments where they are gaining or losing business, and talk about how regulations and industry rules help or hinder them.
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A Real Estate Crystal Ball
Real estate industry experts, including Inman News columnists and readers, shared their insights and best guesses on what’s in store for the housing market this year.
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Social, mobile, local real estate
Real Estate Connect New York City 2010 Highlights
Real estate industry professionals and technologists got a whirlwind tour of bleeding-edge innovation and housing market issues and trends during the latest Real Estate Connect conference in New York City, held Jan. 13–15.
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100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders: 2009
An Inman News Special Report
Inman News has compiled the latest annual list of the 100 most influential people in real estate: the Inman 100. This list reflects the industry's best and brightest, who have risen to the challenge posed by a battered economy and housing hardships on an immense scale. The list includes those individuals from outside of the real estate industry whose actions influence the business of buying and selling homes. The people on this list embody leadership, innovation, ingenuity, power and persistence.
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Real Estate's 50 Most Influential Online: 2009
The growing body and use of online communications tools has produced rich channels for real estate industry participants and observers to exert their influence.
On the Internet, nothing happens in isolation. An explosion of online conversations via tools such as Twitter and Facebook has exposed a broader cross-section of America to the Internet and represents vast potential for real estate professionals to forge real and meaningful online connections that can extend offline.
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Takeout real estate
Wireless apps empower on-the-go agents: New mobile-phone applications tailored for real estate are moving beyond for-sale property searches and into areas once reserved for personal computers, such as lead generation and management, market research and analysis, and customer relationship management. As is often the case in the fast-moving world of technology, yesterday’s dazzling breakthrough — the ability to access listings on the go using a mobile phone — is becoming the norm. Now consumers and real estate professionals are demanding more.
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