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Real estate professionals across Florida were checking on clients Friday as a potentially disastrous storm inched toward their state.

Compass has acquired Patterson Realty, a 49-agent indie brokerage with two support staffers based in California’s central coast.

Sparkout has launched an augmented reality real estate tour app for Android users in an increasingly crowded market with decreasing interest.

Announced earlier this week, the Reali Trade-In program marks the third of its kind to be unveiled by a real estate tech company this month.

According to realtor.com, you’d need to skip 6,147 pumpkin spice lattes (or a latte a day for 17 years!) to save enough for a down payment.

The real estate industry threw some curveballs. Take Inman’s real estate news quiz to demonstrate how strong your talking points and cocktail banter are this week.

Watch Byron Lazine and Nicole White give a real estate agent’s perspective on industry-related topics. This week, Chip and Joanna Gaines’ “Fixer Upper” is uber popular thanks to HGTV, but it’s also reported that those makeover homes are tough sells.

At its best, being a Realtor is one of the greatest professions. We are business owners and have the opportunity to help people navigate a very stressful situation, usually at transitional times in their lives. Yet the training in our industry is underwhelming, unhelpful, ineffective. How can we do right by our clients when we haven’t properly been trained?

Investors and local residents are snapping up properties near Amazon’s second headquarters in Crystal City, Virginia, in anticipation of the tech workers to come.

It’s one thing to recruit great agents, but they do your brokerage no good if you’re not able to keep them. How can you incentive top producing agents to stick around for the long term? Two brokerage owners shared their advice at Inman Connect Las Vegas.