[2] His career began in journalism, writing a sports column in high school and later covering urban housing issues in San Francisco, which led to a 16-year column for the San Francisco Examiner.

[3][4] Inman later collected a number of these articles into a book, California Real Estate: the 1980s & 1990s.

[7] He founded online real estate firm HomeGain.com in 1999, which was acquired by Classified Ventures in 2005.

[8] In 2005, Inman started TurnHere.com, an Internet video production and distribution platform that produced editorial and advertising content for companies such as Conde Nast, NBC, Williams Sonoma, Yelp and OpenTable.

[10] Inman is co-founder of ClimateCheck, a search engine that rates climate change risk for property.