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Hit list: Inside CoStar’s all-out war against Zillow

Housing Wire

commercial brokerages, JLL , CBRE , and Cushman Wakefield plotted designing an alternative database to CoStar. CoStar began pivoting toward the residential market in 2014, when it paid $585 million to buy Apartments.com, which lists apartments for rent. One part of that $42 million is Homesnap Pro contracts with MLSs.

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

Ideally, an engineer designs a model of what they want on software, from an air duct to a prosthetic limb, and it is precisely printed out. Back in 2014, Joseph Gyorko of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and Raven Molloy of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors released the paper , “Regulation and Housing Supply.”.

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Appraisal Profession Dying?

Appraisal Today

CoStar, led by Andy Florance, has become a major player in residential real estate data over the past decade, spending more than $2 billion on acquisitions since 2014. The Ting House is a one room rustic cabin located in a tiny meadow in a Douglas fir forest. The average contract interest rate for 5/1 ARMs decreased to 5.38