Housing Wire

MAY 21, 2025

The housing industry is shaped by shifting consumer expectations, rapid technological advancement, and a turbulent economic landscape. As mortgage and real estate leaders work to navigate whats next, the perspective of those whove helped shape the industry is more important than ever.

Industrial

Housing Wire

MAY 13, 2025

Lets be real: the real estate industry is changing. The changing role of a real estate team For decades, the primary role of a real estate agent was to facilitate a transaction. Industry trends show that homeowners locked into sub-3% mortgage rates find it difficult to justify moving when current rates hover around 6.5%

Industrial

Housing Wire

JULY 14, 2025

the parent company of Realtor.com , has acquired Zenlist , a real estate technology company known for its collaborative search tools for agents and homebuyers. Founded in 2016, Zenlist has been adopted by several MLSs and brokerages , serving more than 35,000 agents. “As Move Inc. , Employees of Zenlist will join Move Inc.

Technology

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In 2011, he founded the innovative brokerage The Agency RE, and he recently launched a real estate agent trade group that aims to serve as an alternative to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). It’s really out of pure love and wanting to give back to an industry that we love. It requires a lot of work.

Industrial

Housing Wire

JUNE 30, 2025

“That’s really the three main areas that real estate agents should be focusing on.” Offers to buy vs. offers of services Shuster emphasized a key legal distinction in this area — calls that involve a bona fide offer to purchase a home versus calls that promote an agent’s services.

Agents

Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2025

Lone Wolf Technologies has named York Baur its new Chief Industry Relations Officer, bringing one of the real estate industry’s most recognized tech leaders into its executive team. I see a shared vision of providing the industry with technology that empowers agents to be even more effective,” said Baur in a statement.

Industrial

Housing Wire

MARCH 14, 2025

Israeli startup eSelf AI has developed a technology that provides interactive AI real estate agents capable of answering questions and guiding prospective buyers through listings at any time. Porta da Frente Christies CEO Joo Clia told Fox Business that the firm has seen great results since live-testing the AI agent about a year ago.

Agents

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The digital brokerage platform announced on Monday the addition of Amerivest Realty , a Florida-based brokerage, adding 400 agents across Florida , Colorado , Minnesota and Wisconsin to Real’s platform. The move broadens Real’s service capabilities and aligns the brokerage with industry consolidation trends.

Agents

Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2025

If a seller chooses to pursue this delayed listing strategy, they will be able to instruct the listing agent to delay marketing a listing through Internet Data Exchange (IDX) and syndication for a period of time, with each local MLS being allowed to determine the maximum length of time a listing can be delayed from public marketing.

Industrial

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Danielle Wilkie: As you know, women make up over two-thirds of real estate agents in the country. Over the next five years, I think any and all real estate agents will be coaches. Velt: Do you see any emerging trends with technology or AI and its use in real estate? This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Industrial

Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

Given the massive changes experienced by the real estate industry in the past six months, it is no surprise that at least a handful of the startups feel that the real estate space is ripe for innovation, giving way to a proliferation of AI agent platforms. We only use it as a tool to make it more efficient for our human agents.

Agents

Housing Wire

JUNE 13, 2025

Welcome back to Tech Pulse — a new weekly series rounding up the latest in technology , including tools, integrations and trends impacting mortgage and real estate. As debate swirls over job loss and security risks, Bressler urged the industry to embrace AI or risk falling behind, likening resistance to ignoring the internet in the ’90s.

Industrial

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Following this move, 150 agents are joining Real’s platform and strengthening its presence in ROVI’s areas. CEO Steve Rovithis founded the company to offer agents and clients alternative methods to “traditional franchise models.” Rovithis complimented Real for its focus on technology and education.

Agents

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 30, 2024

AgentCoach.AI , an AI-powered real estate coaching company, is launching a new training platform for real estate agents. The new platform will leverage specialized training bots to help agents prepare for business. Productivity tools are also available to keep agents on track. said in a statement.

Agents

Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

The real estate industry is already in a whirlwind and the year has barely kicked off. To put it simply, the industry appears to be in its rapid evolution era. For example, changing agent commission guidelines and emerging lead contact regulations are keeping professionals up at night. Have a seat and buckle in.

Technology

Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

Stone Point is no stranger to the real estate industry, as it also holds strategic investments in Lone Wolf Technologies , Homepoint , CoreLogic and Meridian. This is an exciting milestone for all Keller Williams agents and franchisees, Gary Keller, the co-founder and executive chairman of Keller Williams, said in a prepared statement.

Technology

Housing Wire

MAY 8, 2025

Tamir Poleg, chairman and CEO of The Real Brokerage , closed out the prepared remarks section of his firms first-quarter 2025 earnings call by addressing the transformative technological era the industry is currently operating in. Our industry is no exception. The catch was, listeners thought it was Poleg, but it wasn’t.

Technology

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In a new episode of the “Real Estate Insiders Unfiltered Podcast,” hosts James Dwiggins and Keith Robinson are joined by Zillow Group CEO Jeremy Wacksman for a deep dive conversation that covers the role of technology in real estate and Zillow’s “ Super App.” That’s what technology does. We have a phrase at Zillow.

Technology

Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2025

has introduced a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to streamline how title agents access underwriting and compliance information. The new feature — called AgentNet Assist — integrates with the company’s AgentNet platform and is now rolling out to First American ’s policy-issuing title agents nationwide.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

They discuss the utility of artificial intelligence (AI) for the real estate industry, as well as JPARs solutions designed to enhance agent and brokerage performance. Matched with our internal technology, resources and training, it tells agents which training route they should take based on their personality type.

Technology

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Technologies, the umbrella company that includes the brokerage — will be used to develop the company’s AI platform known as S.MPLE. Through our best-in-class technology and creative approach and solutions, we are expanding at an unprecedented rate,” Serhant said in a statement. The investment — which is going to SERHANT.

Development

Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2025

Welcome back to Tech Pulse — HousingWire ‘s weekly series rounding up the latest in technology news, including tools, integrations and trends that impact mortgage and real estate. has acquired Zenlist , a real estate tech startup known for its agent-client collaboration tools.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2024

because we feel the real estate industry is in need of change,” Smith said in a statement. “In In many ways, the industry has become stagnant, and we refuse to accept that. In the four years since Ryan Serhant founded the company, it’s reached almost 800 agents across eight states, and it has doubled in size over the past year.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

With technology rapidly advancing, Zumper is the latest company in the real estate industry to dive into artificial intelligence (AI) assistants. Zoe is a game-changer for the rental industry — she offers 24/7 support to educate renters, narrow down their search, and help set up their tours.

Property Management

Housing Wire

JULY 17, 2025

As the industry moves toward faster, more digital-first transactions, AI is playing a pivotal role in redefining how agents operate, market, and compete. Much like it has in finance, logistics, and media, AI in real estate is offering agents a new way of working: faster, smarter, and more autonomous.

Marketing

Housing Wire

JUNE 8, 2025

Real estate brokerages have faced their fair share of challenges over the past year — from legal threats and business practice changes, to a slow housing market and the breakneck pace of technological development. Despite these threats, no one felt that real estate brokerages or agents would be going anywhere any time soon. “I

Brokerage

Housing Wire

AUGUST 6, 2025

He also highlights how major players like Zillow and Rocket Mortgage are pushing the industry toward new tech-driven models that challenge traditional brokerage structures. Velt: What do you think the average agent needs to be ready to take advantage of? McClelland emphasizes the growing necessity of consumer-first strategies.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With the election behind us, the industry is refocused on building momentum and driving growth in 2025. It also provides your agents with consistent closings, creating a more predictable and growth-focused pipeline. First, you free up your agents to focus on what they do best: closing deals. Ready to accelerate?

Brokerage

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The platform is intended for housing professionals in various sectors, including 5 million loan officers, appraisers , servicers , underwriters , developers, agents, brokers, attorneys and regulators. housing industry,“ Devi Mateti , CoreLogic’s president of enterprise digital solutions, said in a statement.

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The trend of innovative software solutions and artificial intelligence (AI) tools continue as the real estate industry competes for speed and efficiency. “Our Pinergy in-house technology remains wickedly smart and at the leading edge of real estate innovation with the addition of safe, proven, and time-saving AI tools from Restb.ai

MLS

Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

California-based Partner Real Estate has announced a new business model that offers real estate agents access to tools, coaching and operational infrastructure for less than $5,000 per year. The industry is at a turning point, CEO Rudy Lira Kusuma said. Agents shouldnt have to spend six figures to perform like a top producer.

Agents

Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

San Francisco-based real estate technology firm RealScout on Thursday announced that its making its RealScout Exclusives platform available to all brokerages. The platform is designed to help agents and clients effectively manage and distribute their exclusive listings.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2025

MetroList , the largest MLS in Northern California , has rolled out a new “add/edit” voice-controlled app for real estate agents to collect and input property data directly from the field. The app, developed in partnership with real estate technology company Lundy Inc.

MLS

Housing Wire

JULY 11, 2025

Welcome back to Tech Pulse — HousingWire ‘s weekly series rounding up the latest in technology — including tools, integrations and trends that impact mortgage and real estate. The Miami-based firm plans to rebrand and integrate the platform while continuing to support industry peers.

MLS

Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

The latest data through February 2025 shows agent mobility dropping across all tracked measures, signaling an unexpected dip as the real estate industry heads into its traditionally active recruiting season. As weve highlighted in recent months, the continued slowdown in agent movement is reflective of ongoing market uncertainty.

Agents

Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2025

Dream Town is home to Steven Koleno , the top agent by sides and volume in the state, according to the RealTrends Verified The Thousand. The combined company will include nearly 3,000 real estate agents, loan officers and support staff. He said the merger provides a counterpoint to growing consolidation in the real estate industry.

Brokerage

Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Yes, it was a meaningful component, but in fact, the MLS is really the center of how the industry operates.” ’We We as an industry have spent 30 to 40 years building the greatest marketplace ever in the world of real estate for home buyers and sellers,” Dwiggins said. They may also need to embrace new technology.

MLS