Learn from the best: Inman’s most-read contributors of 2022

If you’re a regular Inman reader, you probably have your go-to contributors — the ones whose names you look for and never fail to click on. Maybe you even bookmark their columns or their author page to return to, since they always seem to have some nuggets of wisdom for you to revisit.

Maybe you love the practical, actionable advice that you find in some columns or the high-level industry overviews you find in others. Maybe you like someone who stirs things up and says what everyone else is thinking. Maybe you’re looking for a broker or team leader’s perspective; maybe you want boots-on-the-ground agent advice.

Whatever your taste, Inman has a contributor for you: Industry professionals from agents to brokers to trainers and more, all of whom know what it’s like to be where you are and all of whom bring their practical advice to you in written or video form (or sometimes both). Here are the contributors you couldn’t get enough of this year and their most-read columns.

Jimmy Burgess

Jimmy Burgess is the CEO for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Beach Properties of Florida in Northwest Florida.

• Need a little Insta-ration? 22 must-follows

• 22 ways to generate real estate listings

• ‘Is now a good time to buy a home?’: Here’s how to answer

• 5 truths every agent should know about shifting markets

• 22 must-have real estate tech tools for agents in 2022

Bernice Ross

Bernice Ross, president and CEO of BrokerageUP and RealEstateCoach.com, is a national speaker, author and trainer with more than 1,000 published articles.

• Stop Googling ‘bubble’: Here’s why the news may be more positive than you think

• What happens if the DOJ kills cooperation and compensation on the MLS?

• Negotiating a deal? 7 words you should never, ever say

• 1 hot new strategy to get sellers to realistically price their listings

• These new MLS rules could kill future bombshell commission lawsuits

Carl Medford

Carl Medford is CEO of The Medford Team.

• Working with sellers in a market shift: 7 dos and don’ts

• Watch for these deal-breakers! 15 reasons buyers back out

• ‘But Zillow said … ‘: How to handle the top 7 seller pricing objections

• 10 financial don’ts heading into a recession

• Move that listing: 6 right-pricing tips for a shifting market

Darryl Davis

Darryl Davis, is a top-producing agent and has personally trained more than 100,000 agents globally, is a best-selling author of “How to Become a Power Agent® in Real Estate,” and is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP).

• ‘Be a goldfish’: 9 Ted Lasso leadership nuggets we can all learn from

• Are you worth your commission?

• 7 things every agent should do as summer kicks off

• The essential real estate prospecting conversation-starters every listing agent needs

• Got a new referral? 10 thoughtful tips for thanking the referrer

Mike DelPrete

Mike DelPrete is a tech entrepreneur and global business advisor, speaker and mentor with broad expertise in online real estate tech. 

• Compass approaching ‘critical’ cash burn: Mike DelPrete

• For the first time, Opendoor is selling homes at a loss: DelPrete

• All brokerages are entering the winter of real estate: Mike DelPrete

• Big tech is coming for your commission

• Zillow and Opendoor’s partnership: ‘A match made in lead-gen heaven’

Cara Ameer

Cara Ameer brings a unique perspective to real estate as a bi-coastal agent focusing on the Southern California and Northeast Florida markets with Coldwell Banker.

• 7 questions sellers will ask on listing appointments

• Oh, shift! What agents need their clients to understand fast

• The heat is on! 8 mistakes agents make when competing

• Busted! 10 myths buyers and sellers believe about the current market

• Walkthrough woes: 7 things that cause pre-closing stress

Troy Palmquist

Troy Palmquist is the founder and broker of DOORA Properties in Southern California.

• It’s time for the mortgage industry to create meaningful options for homebuyers

• Incentives slashed, downlines dropped. Time to sell real estate

• This closing gift just might save your client’s life(style)

• Get noticed! How to bring the sexy back to your listing

• Want an unforgettable listing? Try these 7 open house secrets

Byron Lazine

Byron Lazine and Nicole White are two agents in Connecticut who give us their thoughts on the week’s news every Friday in “The Real Word,” a weekly video column on Inman.

• Opendoor is in $62M worth of legal trouble: The Real Word

• Fannie Mae’s latest forecast is a shocker: The Real Word

• This class action lawsuit threatens all Realtors: The Real Word

• Why are so many real estate agents leaving the industry? The Real Word

• Tom Ferry talks housing, marketing: The Real Word

Adam Hergenrother

Adam Hergenrother is the Founder and CEO of Adam Hergenrother Companies (AHC), which includes Livian, among several other real estate, construction management, development and leadership training companies.

• How to close 15 deals between now and the new year

• 10 books to help you hit the $1M mark in 2022

• 6 questions millionaire real estate leaders ask themselves each day

• A Keller Williams team leader on essentials for navigating a downturn

• These mistakes can derail your business. Here’s how to avoid them

Matthew Gardner

Matthew Gardner is the chief economist for Windermere Real Estate, the second largest regional real estate company in the nation.

• ‘No housing bubble’: An economist’s top 10 predictions for 2023

• Are we really in a ‘housing recession’?

• Be on the lookout for these 10 real estate trends in 2022

• Russia, Ukraine, interest rates: Economist answers burning spring market questions

• What the early census numbers say about moving patterns