Housing Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Rocket Homes is looking to make your daily commute part of your home search experience. The company announced Tuesday that the Rocket Homes iOS app is now available on the infotainment screen of a user’s car via Apple CarPlay. When looking for a new home, the search never stops – even when you are driving around town.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2023

Zillow launched a new AI-powered feature called “natural language search” that can now interpret home shoppers’ colloquial lingo, much like how they would talk to friends and family. Zillow is the first company to implement such a search engine.

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Inman

APRIL 23, 2024

Digital twin creation company Matterport has sold to CoStar, parent of home search experience Homes.com and Zillow's chief rival. The deal stands to greatly increase the amount of industry data available to the company for use in its appeal to both real estate agents and consumers.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When homebuyers launch the Rocket Homes app in Apple Vision Pro, a home search page and map of nearby listings based on the user’s current location will fill their field of vision. The app also features a “Look Around” option, which enables the user to explore the home’s exterior and view the surrounding neighborhood.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2024

RealTrends Verified is the world’s first dual-verified, fully transparent, and search-engine optimized real estate sales performance platform that brings historical relevance and benchmarking to professionals and consumers. Elevating the voices of winners : RealTrends Verified is part of HousingWire and a sister company to Altos Research.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

It results from about “70% of the interactions being fully self-serve without the need for team member intervention,” the company explained. So far, it has led to a 10% increase in resolutions during a client’s first call, which saves nearly 20,000 per year in team members hours, according to the company.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Jeff Whiteside, eXp World Holdings ’ chief financial officer, has stepped down from his position, the company announced on Thursday. The brokerage already initiated a search process to find a replacement. Meanwhile, Whiteside, who was CFO for five years, will stay at the company until Dec. 1 to support the transition.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 4, 2024

Add mortgage tech firm Guideline Buddy to the list of companies with an artificial intelligence -powered chat tool. As a long-time industry veteran, I’ve both witnessed and experienced the exorbitant amount of time and money mortgage professionals spend searching for, interpreting, and applying underwriting guidelines.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

California-based mortgage brokerage Loan Factory was sued by a class of loan originators, who allege that the company used their personal and professional information, without their authorization, on its website in an attempt to drive business. He declined to comment further.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

CMG Financial is “doubling down on controlling lifetime customer experience,” and the seven-year deal with Sagent is in line with the lender’s effort to prioritize its “homeowner-first strategy,” the companies said in a joint news release. The company has been aiming to grow its market share in originations through mergers and acquisitions.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 17, 2023

Title companies have embraced digitization, automation and artificial intelligence to better meet their customers’ needs, reduce costs and increase efficiency. Attorneys would search property records and state their written opinion that the property records were clear of any title defects.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Mortgage startup Tomo has thrust itself into the “portal wars” arena with the launch of Tomo Real Estate , its new home search site, the company announced this week. “We’re not just another listing portal,” Carey Armstrong, Tomo co-founder and COO, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Roomvu , a Canadian-based video marketing platform for residential real estate agents, is partnering with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) and Realty One to mark Roomvu’s expansion into the U.S. Links to pages with embedded videos receive 157% more organic search traffic than those without.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2022

While the company plans to form a CEO search committee, Board Member Stephen Joyce will be appointed Interim CEO. Ward Morrison company’s Motto Mortgage operations. Contos, who served as the company’s CEO since 2018 says his decision to leave is to spend more time with his family and pursue new entrepreneurial endeavors.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

To me, branding a company is a chance to define yourself for the market and build a recognizable and memorable identity. Also, the USPTO will conduct a trademark search as part of an examination process when you submit your trademark application. I am a big believer in developing a brand for your real estate business from Day One.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

This development allows us to resume communication through our standard business channels,” the company said on its website late Wednesday afternoon. The company added: “ First American Trust is online and operational and is fully able to securely send and receive wires.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Home management portals company Milestones and financial fitness platform FinLocker have announced a strategic partnership. Each hub offers access to different services such as home maintenance providers, market insights, property search and more. Milestones, on the other hand, offers “online and secure home management portals.”

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

According to industry data, a third of all claims paid by title insurance companies are for issues that cannot be found in a search of the public records and would not be covered by an AOL. That’s why title companies are constantly innovating to drive down the cost of our policies.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For Slade Title, this acquisition allows the company to expand its search capacity to the entire state. She founded the company in 2017. According to Punctual Abstract, the company, which was founded in 1993, typically provides abstracts within 24 to 48 hours from the start of the title search.

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Inman

MARCH 20, 2024

Customers of real estate software company RESAAS can now opt in to having listings published as “coming soon” on industry-leading search portal Zillow.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

BeachesMLS ’ and MIAMI REALTORS SEFMLS , South Florida ’s two largest Multiple Listing Services (MLSs), have begun providing complete listing data to Nestfully , a public search portal sourced directly from the MLS, the company announced last Wednesday.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Digital closings continue to evolve – What title companies need to know. This white paper dives into the future trajectory of eClosings, what the SECURE Notarization Act does and what title companies can do right now to prepare. They are selling, closing, searching, doing exams, and they are feeling overwhelmed and underappreciated.”.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Unlike car and homeowners insurance, which requires a monthly premium and only helps you after there is a problem, a title search most often catches and addresses any problems before closing day and title insurance provides protection for as long as you or your heirs own the property. Diane Tomb, ALTA CEO Contributor.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Miami-based fintech provider LoanPASS integrated Uplist ’s suite of home-shopping tools into its pricing engine, the company announced in November. SmartBuyer is a white-label tool allowing homebuyers to search real-time mortgage rates and payments for any active listing, and then request a preapproval directly on their mobile device.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Ally Home , the residential mortgage lending arm of Ally Bank , is offering a $5,000 grant for eligible homebuyers in the select markets of Charlotte, Detroit and Philadelphia, the company announced on Tuesday. The upfront lump sum can be applied toward a down payment, closing costs or other expenses related to the homebuying process.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Plunk , an AI-powered home analytics platform, has partnered with two real estate industry marketing companies, Union Street Media and Realforce , to scale its real-time data and analytics across multiple digital channels. Plunk’s platform offers real-time insights into home valuation , risk assessment, and remodeling possibilities.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

. “As of the date of this filing, the Company believes it has contained the incident. The Company is in the process of restoring access to its systems and resuming normal business operations. Its home warranty website was also online, as were its public records search and FraudGuard platforms.

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Inman

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

German search engine optimization (SEO) platform SISTRIX ranked portal Homes.com No. The company has been ranking domains for 15 years. 43 on a list of fastest-growing domains in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Former Zillow executives Greg Schwartz and Carey Armstrong have launched an artificial intelligence-powered home search portal under their company, Tomo. The portal is available to homebuyers in 21 states.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The company reported revenue of $640 million and net income of $96 million for the quarter. Meanwhile, the company reported revenue of $2.46 For the full year of 2024, the company expects revenue in the range of $2.75 billion for the year ending Dec. 31, 2023, up 13% from $2.18 billion for the full year 2022. households.

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Inman

APRIL 25, 2024

Local Logic's specific location-based marketing smarts will elevate the search experience for partners of Homegenius, a Radian company.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Qualia The Qualia technology infrastructure for title & escrow companies, lenders, title insurers, and service providers enables each party to complete their own unique tasks required for a closing and exchange information in real time, standardize and automate back-and-forth workflows, and collaborate with one another in a way never before possible. (..)

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Housing Wire

APRIL 11, 2023

What is the role of an escrow company? The escrow company plays a critical role in any real estate transaction. The escrow company is responsible for securing and managing all funds, instructions, documents, down payments and insurance policies involved in the transaction. A title can take various forms and can be transferable.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

One of the most important roles we play at ALTA is strongly encouraging buyers to shop around for their title insurance company. There are many factors to consider when selecting a title company, including local expertise, service standards, market conduct, and commitment to the community.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

After a nearly two-year search, RE/MAX Holdings , the parent company of brokerage firm RE/MAX , has found its new CEO. The board of directors has appointed Erik Carlson to CEO, effectively immediately, according to an announcement on Monday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Florance said his initial interest in acquiring Matterport came from the usage and influence of the company on renters searching for apartments on CoStar’s rental site, Apartments.com. In turn, this will allow agents to provide even more value to their clients.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As companies gradually enforce back-to-the-office policies, the share of homebuyers trying to relocate to a different metro area decreased in November for the third month in a row. The share dropped to 23.9%, the lowest level seen in a year-and-a-half, according to Redfi n. It was the first annual decline ever recorded since 2017.

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