Housing Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This tool uses technology from Roomvo , a home design visualization platform. The tool empowers prospective homebuyers to imagine the potential of a home while playing with different design styles. It’s one way Redfin ‘s using AI to make real estate better for buyers, sellers, and agents.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Shortly after EasyKnock acquired home equity investment platform Balance Homes , the company appointed former Balance Homes co-founders Judd Schoenholtz and Aaron LaRue as chief revenue officer and chief technology officer, respectively. LaRue, meanwhile, will focus on the expansion of EasyKnock’s technology platform.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2024

Similarly, data-driven marketing can be more cost effective, helping you focus your marketing budget on homeowners who are most likely to sell, and on buyers who are actively looking for their next home. Need more examples? It’s the perfect way to introduce seasoned agents to AI without the intimidation factor – or the steep learning curve.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Sarah Wheeler: Let’s talk about your background, because you have both technology and real estate experience. Shayan Hamidi: I studied computer science, economics and math and my background is technology. That’s our point of view, which then impacts the way we go about architecting our technology and our product.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

HousingWire recently spoke with Michael Chew, SVP of Fulfillment, Asset/Rental Management at Consolidated Analytics , about REO assets, the economic factors influencing the increase in REO acquisitions and how technology can help with REO asset management. HW: What role can technology and analytics play in the REO asset management space?

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Housing Wire

MAY 3, 2023

Stavvy , a fintech company specializing in digital and remote collaboration for lending and real estate companies, announced on Wednesday a new partnership with WFG National Title Insurance Company (WFG) to provide the company and its customers with eClosing technology solutions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Generative artificial intellegence, such as ChatGPT, is changing everything—a statement that comes as little surprise to anyone these days, and least of all to the many real estate agents whose markets are being saturated by artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered buyers. Keep Up AI is making buyers smarter.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic required a light-speed adjustment in this direction, as our offices were locked down with stay at home orders and everyone worked away from office colleagues and technology support. In addition, technology needed to be integrated into our work-from-home lives in new ways we had not thought of before.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2024

I pondered how they could offer the assistance that buyers and sellers required at such competitive rates. The company’s initial approach, offering flat fees and leveraging technology to streamline processes, initially captured attention and gained traction, promising to change how real estate transactions are completed.

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Inman

MARCH 4, 2024

Recent luxury forecasts from Coldwell Banker and Christie's International Real Estate show optimism in the market, and plenty of demand for new technology. Intel examines their findings.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

Lickstein helped craft an AI-powered tool designed to educate brokers and is currently developing a compliance framework. Tager focused more on the marketing implications, how his company has used generative AI to create marketing initiatives and shared thoughts on what the development of the technology could mean for the space overall. “We

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

Let’s dive into two areas that technology partners and independent brokerages can align to ensure that demand is captured and more at-bats are won. Statistics show that anywhere from 88–90% of home buyers with an agent and use that agent as their go-to source for information. The homebuyer. Younger Generations Don’t Know the Process.

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Eppraisal

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

According to NAR's statistics, they are America's largest trade association and have been "advocating and protecting the rights of property buyers and sellers in the U.S. " Education One of the ways Realtors® stand out from other real estate agents is their access to education, designations and certifications.

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Housing Wire

MAY 24, 2021

Stavvy, a Boston-based fintech, announced Monday that it landed a $40 million Series A funding round led by Morningside Technology Ventures. Servicers must be powered by nimble technology to be heroes to borrowers, stalwarts to investors, and stewards of consumer protection to regulators. Presented by: Sagent Lending Technologies.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The writer in the Economist says, “…either the fat fee [real estate commission] inflates the house price, or the buyer ends up paying a similar fee when he or she sells.” This is from the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal, “Ninety percent of transactions offer buyer agent commissions of exactly 3%.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Another issue is home sellers’ bias against buyers using FHA loans, where offers from non-FHA borrowers are often selected even though lower in price. CHLA commends FHA for its work on its “Mythbusters” initiative, designed to blow up the myths around FHA loans by educating lenders and home sellers.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

People who invest in technology often ask the question: is this a “nice to have,” or a “need to have?” Few have the resources to invest in technologies they don’t need. What’s the worst that can happen if we don’t invest in this technology?”. This new technology gave him the time to teach his injured brain to talk again.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Black Knight already offers eSign, eClosing and remote online notarization (RON) solutions, but the integration will close the loop on delivering a completely digital mortgage process, Rich Gagliano, president of originations technologies at Black Knight, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The approach creates wider opportunities for both buyers and sellers and empowers both parties to the home sale “to present and accept offers with certainty and without open-ended financing contingencies,” the lender’s announcement of the new NFT loan option states.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Too many real estate agents are watching artificial intelligence (AI) from the sidelines, assuming technology will never replace them. They repeat the mantra “Home buyers and sellers will always need a real estate agent.” However, it was deemed as too challenging technologically so it languished. Chatbots nurture leads.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2023

Its sleek and clean interface offers immediate access to crucial order details, including property address, map, buyer and seller names, settlement date, and recently completed milestones. SoftPro is a leading provider of title, closing, and escrow software in the United States.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

HousingWire’s virtual demo days are designed specifically to help mortgage industry decision makers identify the technology solutions they need to operate efficiently and securely. Tune in March 16th to experience demos from the most innovative real estate technology solutions. Real Estate Tech Demo Hour. billion visits.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2021

Technology has rapidly changed the process for listing and buying homes, and the general public is taking note and adjusting their expectations of what a real estate broker should be. Today, both sellers and buyers expect to handle a majority of the process online.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Like Realtor.com, Redfin will be publishing data compiled by First Street Foundation , a science and technology nonprofit organization that quantifies flood risk through Flood Factor. “Buying a home is the biggest purchase most people will make in their lifetime,” Redfin Chief Product Officer Christian Taubman said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

And despite fierce bidding wars, competition from institutional investors and sore wrists from writing dozens of heartfelt letters to home sellers, even buyers are growing in courage these days. Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. points to 81.7.

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Inman

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Cordless Media’s products are designed for companies trying to reach the real estate brands, home buyers, moving companies, investors and other entities in real estate verticals.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Zillow is mostly known for its practice of selling buyer agent leads through its Premier Agent program, while Homes.com has touted its “your listing, your lead” model, which focuses on seller agents. In prior notes, KBW had also referred to CoStar as the “top beneficiary” of a change to the buyer agent landscape.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

For the mortgage industry, the dash toward virtual solutions and reliable fintech was crucial to reigniting the journey for hopeful home buyers. Back then, the tech craze was booming, and the company’s founders recognized an opportunity to bring data and technology to the industry. homeowners find themselves enjoying approximately $27.8

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Inman

JANUARY 5, 2024

Billed as a lifetime engagement solution, Hōm offers a lot for the growing agent targeting first-time buyers, but it's more an assemblage of nice-to-haves than an application designed to create meaningful change.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 23, 2024

When it comes to course format and content delivery, choose from Colibri’s self-paced online and instructor-led livestream courses, which are designed to allow you to study on any device with internet access and a browser. Their courses are created by active industry experts in collaboration with Harvard-educated instructional designers.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 17, 2022

Many buyers hope the housing market will cool down in 2022, and while experts don’t think it will be as competitive, this is unlikely to be a dramatic shift — at least not one that turns the market away from being seller-friendly. At the same time that thousands of buyers are entering the market, remote work is settling in for good.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 31, 2022

Investing in people and technology. Among the acquisitions are title and settlement offices to expand its share and gain scale in key markets, as well as technology providers to improve the customer experience and expand its data and analytics capabilities. That’s by design, Fowler said. “We And it does.”.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2021

Not to mention chaos as many buyers who purchased after April 2020 experienced COVID-related delays in closings thanks to office closures, supply issues and more. Another key takeaway – and a constant theme during the pandemic – is how technology liberated consumers and professionals alike. Broadband hammered dialup.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Any future exit from conservatorship will confront issues beyond capitalization such as data monetization, risk parameters, secondary market design, FHA execution and the pricing of mortgage guarantees. Thinking differently about digital will matter more than any technology.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2023

It is also training machine learning models to get better at responding to users’ queries in “human-like sentences.” “Beyond easy-to-filter criteria like bedrooms and bathrooms, buyers are considering many other specific features that match their unique lifestyle,” Jenny Arden, Zillow’s chief design officer, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Today, It is an all-in-one platform designed to help real estate agents manage many aspects of their business, including building meaningful relationships to grow repeat and referral business with clients. FiveStreet: Gone are the days when you could get back to a buyer inquiring about a property in a day or two. Wondering how?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A full 89% of these buyers and 84% of refinancers said they eSigned their disclosure, closing documents, or both. For those who had closed on a mortgage in the past, this time around, 79% of respondents said that technology played a bigger role in the current transaction. Among the homebuyers, 35% were first-time buyers.

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