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The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Marketing for Real Estate Agents
In the beginning, social media was optional in real estate. Fast forward to 2017, and social media is now virtually a requirement. In fact, it has become so …

Ben Carson takes HUD Lead: What This Means for Real Estate
In the final hours of the Obama Administration, former-Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a final domestic economic…

Housing and Urban Development Reverses FHA Premium Cuts
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced late last week it will suspend a proposed plan to cut to annual mortgage insurance premiums h…

Inman Connect New York 2017 Recap
Our industry kicked off a season of great real estate conferences with Inman Connect New York. Hosted by Brad Inman and Inman News at the Marriott Marquis ne…

Real Estate Website SEO: The Ultimate Beginners Guide for Agents
A few weeks ago, I mentioned Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. It’s an important and complicated part of having a successful website. This week, we will go…

Customizing Groups in Chime with April
With the enormous success we’ve had at Inman Connect this week, we’ve decided to move our usual Feature Friday post to Wednesday! Even while we’re out introd…

Real Estate Market Forecast: Housing Market Trends to Watch For in 2017
The country ended 2016 on a bit of a question mark as far as housing is concerned. Mortgage rates have spiked about 0.75 points since the week before the ele…

Email Marketing For Real Estate Agents: Tips and Best Practices
In real estate, a picture may be worth a thousand words, but the right words sell homes. Simply put: images entice, but effective messaging can educate poten…

Chime Technologies Opens a New Office in Salt Lake City!
In the past six months, we’ve been busy building and refining tools to empower and improve the workflow of real estate professionals. We love real estate as …

The Best Mobile Apps for Real Estate Agents in 2017
Apps are great. They really make that giant phone in your pocket worth carrying. For a long time, I was a proponent of using the web-version of an app instea…

Chime Customer Success Interview with Wilson Leung
Buying and selling real estate in one of the country’s hottest markets is no small task. Any agent, team, or firm across the country can wheel-and-deal homes…

How Rising Interest Rates Will Impact the 2017 Housing Market
Since the election of incoming President Donald Trump, there has been a spike in mortgage interest rates. Whether the rate increases have come as a direct re…
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