Why your online presence isn’t growing (and what to do about it)

Social media and YouTube are marketing machines that can transform your current and future business in ways you can’t imagine, Jimmy Burgess writes. Now is the time to get focused and build your presence in a way that attracts more of your ideal clients.

How to turn your Google Business Profile into a lead gen machine

If you want to raise your profile on the world’s most prominent digital platform, a Google Business Profile is the way to go. Jimmy Burgess offers the secrets to optimizing your online presence with this underutilized marketing tool.

CoStar’s Homes.com beats Redfin, Realtor.com to become No. 2 portal

In a sign of the listing portal’s growing influence, Homes.com hit more than 100 million unique visitors in September, sparking a 1,290 percent annual increase in traffic. Now the portal is second only to Zillow.

Constellation Software handed the keys to Empower, Optimal Blue

To satisfy antitrust regulators, ICE divests itself of Black Knight’s loan origination and mortgage pricing businesses, but gets access to mortgage loan servicers and MLSs in $11.9 billion merger.

VC-backed Roam seeks to connect buyers to assumable mortgages

In theory, any government-backed FHA, VA and USDA loan is assumable, and with mortgage rates at levels not seen in two decades, interest in this little-used option has been growing.