Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

rental market has become more competitive than ever, driven by a combination of rising demand, limited availability due to a lack of new rental housing supply, and regional economic pressures. A market under pressure: rising rents nationwide Rental prices across the U.S. Los Angeles: A case study in market strain On the other U.S.

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

Preparing for the summer season typically a peak period in most real estate markets requires strategic planning and a keen focus on the client experience. Competition can heat up quickly and as a global brokerage, heres how were preparing for a successful luxury summer selling season across the markets we serve and how you can do the same.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

We’ve seen some of those lenders go to market and sell that tech stack to other lenders. The second big initiative for 2025, which we’ll have some announcements here, it is going to be really like we’re delivering online and offline from a lead and marketing perspective. We feel like that’s super important.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

Real estate technology firm Lofty has announced the launch of Lofty Bloom, a new automated marketing solution aimed at helping real estate professionals focus on specific ZIP codes and generate high-quality seller leads. Campaigns launch automatically based on preset triggers, giving agents more time to focus on closing deals.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Relatively cheap housing, low taxes, looser COVID-19 restrictions and an influx of major employers turned Texas housing markets into hotspots after the pandemic began in March 2020. The emerging technology sector brought wealth from the West Coast and pushed home prices sky high in a very short period of time. in April 2023.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Mortgage professionals must keep up with the new demand for home equity products in the new market. JS: The home equity wealth of our senior homeowners now exceeds 14 trillion, reflecting a growing market. Technology will also play a big role in simplifying and speeding up the process for everyone.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

EliseAI is finalizing a partnership with Zillow Rentals to embed its conversational artificial intelligence (AI) technology directly into multifamily rental listings on the Zillow platform. It’ll be a smarter, faster experience for renters and a more efficient way for property marketers to connect with serious leads.”

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2025

During last week’s earnings call, PennyMac Financial Services chairman and CEO David Spector said during a Q&A with investors and analysts that the company’s goals include continued growth in its broker direct channel and 10% market share by the end of 2026 a goal of more than 100% growth over the next 18 months.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As the month of love commences and Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, the phrase “building a future together” has never been more relevant as a new dating app designated for homeowners is about to hit app stores. How does it work? The app is open to homeowners who live in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The oldest baby boomers are poised to turn 80 years old this year, which could bring the market of dedicated senior housing from a place of oversupply to a shortage. A renewed interest in the senior housing market could also spur higher prices and waitlists, two things that lower-income older Americans can ill afford.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

Teams have grown not only in size but also in complexity, often incorporating marketing, tech, and admin support to streamline operations and boost productivity. What that creates is [that] we actually have alignment with our team leaders,” said LPT CEO Robert Palmer. “Everybody wins, and it’s led to massive growth.”

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

This hiring underscores the company’s commitment to technology and product innovation. The firm also added Sasha Stair a 2023 HousingWire Woman of Influence as its chief marketing officer in October 2024. Xactus’ approach to the market over the next few years centers around boosting efficiency with workflows.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 17, 2025

In a changing real estate market , mortgage lenders face increasing demand. The primary and secondary mortgage markets may be separate business components, but mortgage originators must understand both businesses intimately. Originators can bring new products to market when their underwriters can avoid the associated learning curve.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

In this Executive Conversation, Marc digs into a wide variety of topics on how to approach change management as market volatility remains outside of our control. It also means applying technology where it can be most effective in that process. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity purposes. We do not see it that way.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2025

The duo explore Anywhere’s resurgent focus on the luxury market, increasing M&A opportunities, and the value of embracing change. We invest disproportionately in luxury markets. The fact that we were able to outperform the market substantially throughout 2024 was an awesome thing.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 12, 2025

“We leverage technology and have an app that allows us to generate multiple cash offers,” he said. “It fits the luxury market and the entry-level market. ” Tools that provide more than flash Technology is also front and center in the company’s growth strategy. That one tool is very powerful.”

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Housing Wire

MAY 27, 2025

Banking and mortgage technology company nCino made a large reduction in force (RIF) ahead of its quarterly earnings call on Wednesday. “To exceed market demands, technology alone won’t allow us to move faster, we need to be intentional about eliminating overage, redundancies and bureaucracy.” ”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Fluctuating interest rates and a fast-changing market Last month, we saw the Federal Reserve deliver their long-awaited decision to lower interest rates with a 50 basis points cut, and 30-year mortgage rates reached as low as 6.08% according to ICE’s 30-year fixed conforming rate index.

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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. Keller Williams has entered into a strategic partnership with private equity firm Stone Point Capital , according to an announcement on Monday.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2025

The title insurance industry is on track for steady expansion over the next decade, driven by surging real estate activity, advancing technology and tightening regulatory frameworks. According to Market Research Future (MRF), the title insurance market is expected to grow from $4.15 billion in 2025 to $5.69 Valued at $1.5

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Beyond that, technology continues to evolve, yet those solutions do little to streamline processes and deliver actual returns. Professionals should also leverage technology to give clients the best experience for the biggest decision of their lives. Have a seat and buckle in. What does this look like? Isn’t that promising?

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2025

However, this rapid population growth comes with challenges for the single-family rental market. Sectors such as healthcare, technology, logistics, and financial services have seen strong job creation. This has reduced the number of homes available for sale and kept renters in the market longer. According to the U.S.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This is also precisely when technology can play a crucial role in helping agents, teams and brokerages transcend short-term hurdles and a top of funnel focus. This is also precisely when technology can play a crucial role in helping agents, teams and brokerages transcend short-term hurdles and a top of funnel focus.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Leo CoPilot can help agents generate automated marketing materials by leveraging data from an MLS. But Real agents are not the only ones receiving upgraded AI technology. The Real Brokerage is keeping attendees of RISE, its third annual agent conference, on their toes. Real also unveiled Leo of Clients on the RISE stage Tuesday.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

“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 is a Barcelona-based technology services company that offers image recognition tools with a 99% accuracy rate, according to the company.

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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. With all of these changes and challenges many wonder if we are on the precipice of a brokerage mass extinction event.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Digital mortgage exchange platform and loan aggregator MAXEX announced on Tuesday the hiring of mortgage technology veteran Daniel Wallace as its new chief operating officer. Wallace brings more than 30 years of experience as a leader of tech-focused mortgage, asset management and capital market platforms. “The U.S.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 12, 2025

During the 10-minute conversation, Pieklo explores his new focus on developing AFR’s wholesale lending strategy, the competitive landscape of the mortgage market, and the company’s unique approach to differentiating itself from other big names in the wholesale space. We look to the secondary markets first.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The company has an aggressive marketing goal to reach the No. Citis previous use of the URL was to redirect to learning center content within the home lending pages on the Citi domain, according to Head of Mortgage Marketing at Citi, Chip Burgard. Market share and brand authority Why launch this site now?

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Prospective homeowners enter the housing market with two questions: Where do I begin? Potential homeowners should be able to handle this confusion in a world where technology and digital tools rule customer service. How much home can I afford? Once the process starts, nearly half of home buyers report shedding tears at some point.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2025

This decoupling was initially driven by the desire for greater efficiency, specialization and the need to respond to growing regulatory and market pressures. However, recent technological advances, especially in artificial intelligence (AI), are prompting many in the industry to reconsider this dividing wall.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A month after launching its new Private Exclusive Listings (PX) feature, agent-driven offer, negotiation and collaboration platform Final Offer has acquired Private Collection , a source of listing information for off-market properties. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

MLSs are using AI technology to catch agents who attempt to circumvent the commission lawsuit settlement terms. I’ve never seen an environment where compliance has taken such precedent over everything else,” said John Heithaus, chief marketing officer at Ocusell , a compliance software firm. “If But now it’s a dirty word.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

a Silicon Valley-based startup, is transforming the property marketing process with Collov AI , the real estate industrys first listing marketing AI Agent. Niche to necessity Virtual staging has evolved from a niche add-on to a critical marketing tool. Collov AI : A smarter, faster and an AI way to stage Collov Inc. ,

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 17, 2024

These upgrades are available through Hive Solutions, a suite of real estate technology products designed for widespread use across several sectors of the industry. Hive MLS compares its platform to a bee hive, where worker bees — referring to agents — work together to gather resources and keep the hive, or the housing market, alive.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 20, 2024

At the beginning of 2024, mortgage technology company LoanPASS was announced as a technology partner for reverse mortgage lender Smartfi Home Loans. Getting the hang of reverse Mitchell is a 25-year veteran of the mortgage technology space, primarily working for LOS companies.

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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. Real is a real estate technology company that is differentiated in our industry. million a year ago.

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