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A look behind this year’s Tech100 winners

Housing Wire

News just broke that private equity investor LLR Partners announced strategic investments in two mortgage technology companies — Mortgage Coach and Sales Boomerang ( click here for article ). This isn’t a new story in mortgage lending or real estate brokerage. Hey Clayton …” and a link. In 2016 LLR led a $26.5 No surprise here.

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Friday Flash: Blind love and high-class shade

1000Watt

An article published this week in The Atlantic , “ The Death of the Smart Shopper ,” makes a similar point about online retail: “…Amazon has cultivated a decentralized, disorienting mess with little in the way of discernible quality control or organization. This isn’t just a brokerage thing. Getting better. And maybe we are.

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Filling the Emerging iBuyer Vacuum

GeekEstate

[Note from editor: We publish a Weekly Transmission for GEM members , a series of long-form articles covering the spectrum from shipping container co-living spaces to the battle for listing acquisition in the first iBuyer world war. Below is this month’s sample Transmission.]. NOVEMBER MONTHLY TRANSMISSION. BY DREW MEYERS.

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Geek Estate July Monthly Radar 2022

GeekEstate

Fifth Wall “announced commitments of half a billion dollars to close its inaugural Climate Fund, which launched with $116 million in August of last year,” according to CNBC. Below is a wrap-up for the month of July with the most interesting analysis & commentary from the GEM. Yifan Zhang from Loftium. Or Agassi from FlipOS.

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The Topic No One Will Touch with a Ten Foot Pole

GeekEstate Agents & Brokers

Some links included below are to members-only articles.]. For our 200th Transmission (wow…that’s a lot), I thought I’d reach for a blast from the past and modernize the most read article ever on Geek Estate Blog , written all the way back in 2014. Salaried agents. The longer story can be had for historical buffs.

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RealSure: How Does This Home Selling and Buying Service Work?

HomeLight

Editor’s note: Information in this article is current as of June 22, 2022. RealSure was launched in 2020 as a way to give buyers and sellers a competitive edge through the security of an all-cash offer. Whether you’re looking to buy or sell a home (or both), it seems like everyone is interested in all-cash offers these days.

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Looking Forward to 2023: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

GeekEstate

Unprofitable companies can no longer hide behind a “grow at all costs” directorate. The age of cheap growth is a bygone age; growth in 2023 and beyond will be earned, not bought. Imagine startups are race cars and interest rates are gas prices. Now that gas is expensive and the finish line further away, acceleration takes a back seat to gas mileage.

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