At Inman Connect San Diego — real estate’s marquee industry gathering, held July 28–30, 2026, at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina — Luxury Presence was named the Most Innovative Marketing Solution of 2026 at the Inman Innovator Awards, the flagship innovation honor the industry has bestowed since 1998.

For readers on Florida’s Treasure Coast, the headline matters less for what happened in San Diego than for what it confirms closer to home. The platform that just claimed real estate’s top marketing prize is the same one powering the entire Vero Premier Properties digital portfolio: FloridaEastCoastLuxuryHomes.com, SeaOaksHomesVeroBeach.com, GrandHarborHomesVeroBeach.com, and the Vero Premier Properties mobile app.

In an industry where “innovation” too often means a new font on a yard sign, this award was earned the old-fashioned way — with numbers that hold up under scrutiny.

An Award With Provenance

The Inman Innovator Awards are not a participation trophy. Since 1998, Inman — the news organization of record for real estate’s agents, brokers, and technology leaders — has used the award to identify the companies genuinely moving the industry forward: the entrepreneurs retiring the old ways, the marketers reimagining how properties are showcased, the platforms rebuilding how agents and clients communicate.

Finalists are selected by Inman’s editorial team following an open industry-wide nomination process, and winners are announced live before an audience of roughly 3,000 agents, brokers, and executives at Inman Connect. This year’s stage belonged, in the marketing category, to Luxury Presence.

The Numbers Behind the Name

Luxury Presence, headquartered in Austin, has spent the past year assembling the kind of résumé that makes an innovation award feel less like a surprise and more like a formality.

The company recently crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue — a threshold fewer than 2% of venture-backed software companies ever reach. It now serves more than 100,000 agents across nearly 20,000 real estate businesses. In January 2026, it closed a $37 million funding round led — for the third consecutive time — by Bessemer Venture Partners, one of Silicon Valley’s most selective growth investors.

Two figures, however, tell the real story.

First: roughly 30% of the agents and teams ranked by The Wall Street Journal and RealTrends — the definitive national ranking of top-producing real estate professionals — run their businesses on Luxury Presence. When nearly a third of the industry’s most successful practitioners independently arrive at the same platform, that is not a trend. That is a verdict.

Second: according to company data, agents operating on the Presence Platform grow roughly six times faster and close nearly three times the transaction volume of comparable agents in the same markets. Luxury Presence has also deployed what it describes as the industry’s first fully autonomous AI marketing team — technology that works a listing around the clock, in every time zone a buyer might be searching from.

What This Means If You Are Selling a Home in Vero Beach

Here is the uncomfortable truth of the modern luxury market: your home’s first showing does not happen at your front door. It happens on a screen — frequently 1,200 miles north of it.

The buyers driving Vero Beach’s barrier island market disproportionately arrive from the Northeast and Midwest: Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Chicago. Long before they board a flight to Florida, they have toured your property digitally — through photography, video, floor plans, and search experiences delivered by whichever platform your listing agent has chosen to invest in.

Vero Premier Properties made that choice deliberately. Its three purpose-built digital storefronts — a flagship site covering the full Treasure Coast luxury market, plus dedicated community sites for Sea Oaks and Grand Harbor — are all engineered on the Luxury Presence platform. That means every listing the firm represents inherits an award-winning presentation layer: cinematic media, institutional-grade design, live MLS search, and a technical architecture built to surface in the AI-driven search results where today’s buyers increasingly begin — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews.

Put plainly: when you list with Vero Premier Properties, your home is marketed on the same technology that just won real estate’s top innovation award — the same infrastructure used by nearly a third of the nation’s Wall Street Journal–ranked agents. Most sellers in most markets do not get that. On the barrier island, it comes standard.

What This Means If You Are Buying

For buyers, the award validates something Vero Premier Properties clients already experience daily: the Vero Premier Properties mobile app, built on Luxury Presence’s AI-driven mobile platform.

The Company You Keep

There is an old rule in luxury: you are known by your partners. Vero Premier Properties — the Signature Division of Coldwell Banker Global Luxury, founded by Ben Bryk and J. Vance Brinkerhoff — has built its practice on that principle. The firm’s principals bring more than 35 years of experience, over 2,000 transactions, and more than $1.2 billion in career sales, with a RealTrends Verified standing in the top 1.5% of agents nationally.

Congratulations to Luxury Presence on a well-earned honor. Vero Beach’s buyers and sellers are the quiet beneficiaries.