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Once at the fringes of housing finance, home equity investment companies look to grow their stake

Housing Wire

In return, Hometap gets an agreed-upon percentage of the sale price or appraised value within a 10-year period. Affordability has always been a challenge,” said Ashkán Zandieh, managing partner and industry chair at the Center for Real Estate Technology and Innovation. “In The annual investment volume in the U.S.

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Compass acquisition could worry some California agents

Housing Wire

Compass announced Monday that it has reached an agreement to buy San Francisco-based real estate transaction platform Glide , a deal that some California real estate agents may feel uneasy about. Glide, which was founded in 2017, provides tools like eSignature and the digitization of sales processing forms.

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How proptechs are adapting in a changing market

Housing Wire

Just a couple years ago there was incredible momentum building around alternative ways to purchase, sell and extract value from residential properties. The highly competitive purchase market and bidding wars gave rise to power buyer models to help non cash buyers compete. homeowners.

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John Davis files racketeering suit against Gary Keller

Housing Wire

and Business MAPS Management LLC as defendants, Davis alleges that the defendants inflated key profitability metrics including company sales and profits to convince individuals to purchase Keller Williams Regions and Market Centers. In addition, Davis claims that franchisees were required to purchase Keller’s books.

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Tips for growing your title business in a down market

Housing Wire

Whether you believe the worst market conditions are now behind us or that the coming months will remain turbulent, there’s no doubt that title related businesses will need a combination of thrift, ingenuity, innovation and persistence to be successful for the foreseeable future. This can be a profitable strategy.

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Market Map: 240 Real Estate Technology Companies Transforming Today’s Housing Market

GeekEstate

I’m excited to release Thomvest’s real estate technology market map, which includes more than 240 companies operating within the residential real estate segment. This is the third update to the market map and includes over 100 additional companies — a testament to the pace of entrepreneurship in this segment.

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Better reports improved net loss of $45.5 million in Q2

Housing Wire

CEO Vishal Garg said in an interview with HousingWire that the company targets mortgage marketplace and white-label technology models. billion in production volume in the first half of 2023, refis accounted for $131 million and purchase loans consisted of $1.6 Better’s total market share of 0.2% in the same period in 2022.