Courted, Inspectify, LPT Realty take Inman Innovators honors

Inman honored 12 people and firms at its twenty sixth annual Innovator Awards on Thursday, together with awards for firm, brokerage and innovator of the 12 months. See the total record of winners.

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The twenty sixth Inman Innovator Awards happened on Thursday, with greater than 80 people and firms being honored for his or her efforts in bettering the business via groundbreaking merchandise, trailblazing management, awe-inspiring teamwork and ample generosity within the face of unprecedented challenges.

Courted co-founder and CEO Sean Soderstrom, residence inspection software program firm Inspectify and cloud-based brokerage LPT Realty clinched the highest three awards for Innovator of the 12 months, Firm of the 12 months and Most Modern Brokerage of the 12 months, whereas Maui Actual Property Brokers obtained the Nate Ellis Award for his or her service within the wake of the 2023 Maui wildfires.

“We have an amazing list, and there’s so much innovation that’s crazy,” Inman founder Brad Inman mentioned earlier than calling nominees on stage. “Someone just said backstage there’s been more innovation than he’s ever seen in 25 years. If you’re a finalist, just come on up. Everyone’s a winner.”

Innovator of the 12 months: Sean Soderstrom, Courted

Sean Soderstrom, Courted | Credit score: AJ Canaria Artistic Providers

Since founding Courted lower than 4 years in the past, Soderstrom has helped hundreds of brokers and group leaders supercharge their recruitment and retention efforts by utilizing synthetic intelligence to investigate native market statistics and different key enterprise metrics to find out possibilities of long-term success or if/when a group or prime producer could go away.

Courted has taken a guide and archaic course of and introduced it to the twenty first century, serving to brokers make smarter, data-led selections in figuring out rising star brokers earlier than the competitors does — a useful asset in a consolidating business. Don’t be stunned if Courted will get acquired within the close to future.

Firm of the 12 months: Inspectify

L to R: Katie Kossev, Managing Dealer of Texas at Facet; Gary Ashton, RE/MAX Benefit; Josh Jenson, CEO of Inspectify; Debra Beagle, The Ashton Actual Property Group of RE/MAX Benefit; Robert Palmer, CEO of LPT Realty; Eric Stegemann, CEO of Tribus; Sean Soderstrom; Brad Inman and others | Credit score: AJ Canaria Artistic Providers

Dwelling inspections are one of the vital nerve-wracking components of a homebuyer’s and homeseller’s journey, with inspections having the facility to make — or break — a deal. Dwelling inspection platform Inspectify has spent the previous 5 years bettering the method with software-driven workflows that assist inspectors transfer sooner, standardize knowledge, and mitigate challenges for patrons and sellers via unmatched transparency.

Inspectify makes use of knowledge and itemizing info to contextualize the house in opposition to its contents and main methods and offers an easy-to-understand, categorized record of points from most to least vital. The corporate just lately upped the ante with insurance coverage on particular person home equipment and residential methods, which allows a purchaser to be comfy buying a house with older gadgets as a result of Inspectify will again the merchandise’s performance after buy, tremendously assuaging threat and uncertainty about transferring ahead.

Most Modern Brokerage: LPT Realty

LPT Realty founder and CEO Robert Palmer (heart) and others | Credit score: AJ Canaria Artistic Providers

Florida-based LPT Realty has rapidly scaled the ladder of cloud-based brokerages, rising to 10,000 brokers throughout 24 states in two years. The brokerage provides brokers advertising and marketing, know-how and coaching with a $500 annual payment and a $195 transaction payment. Brokers with LPT additionally get to decide on between two compensation plans — a sexy function because the business barrels towards monumental change in fee insurance policies.

LPT Realty founder and CEO Robert Palmers’ imaginative and prescient has begun to be a magnet for business heavyweights, with former eXp Chief Development Officer Michael Valdes taking the reigns of LPT’s newly based worldwide division. “Robert is a true visionary, and I am honored and humbled to join this impressive company,” Valdes mentioned.

Learn on for the total record of winners.