Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

The rise of AI and the new property management landscape Challenging occupancy retention rates, changing resident needs, accelerating technology: these are the primary factors shaping the property management landscape. In a competitive market, these resident-first strategies arent just nice to havetheyre essential for long-term retention.

Property Management

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.

Agents

Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2025

As the real estate industry faces unprecedented transformation, Century 21 Real Estate has stayed active through aggressive franchise growth, market consolidation and engagement with evolving homebuyer demographics. We announced numerous recent moves in markets including California , Florida , Oregon , Georgia , Colorado and Nevada.

Industrial

Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2025

Across the country, real estate industry observers are discussing a possible shift to a buyer’s market. “On On the whole, the national market has gone back to balanced,” says Kara Ng, a senior economist at Zillow. We’ve seen sellers return to the market in bigger numbers than buyers this year and sales in many parts of the U.S.

Marketing

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.

Agents

Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2025

Independent real estate brokerage Nest Realty has officially integrated Rechat into its core technology systems. We were spending too many resources on building and maintaining technology ourselves, and it was time to redirect those efforts toward direct agent support. We’re proud to be their technology partner.”

Agents

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.

Equity

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.

Marketing

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.

Marketing

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

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.

Marketing

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.

Technology

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.

Agents

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?

Technology

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.”

Property Management

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.

MLS

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.

Loan Officer

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.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2025

The sample was balanced across gender, race and income to reflect the diversity of today’s housing market. This shift reflects both necessity and a pragmatic adaptation to current market conditions, with younger buyers finding innovative ways to achieve homeownership despite significant financial barriers.” Who to turn to?

Loan Officer

Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2025

mortgage market is undergoing a tectonic shift, and Non-Qualified Mortgage (Non-QM) lending is at the epicenter of this transformation. Once viewed as a niche or transitional product, non-QM lending now represents around 5 percent of today’s mortgage market, according to a recent CoreLogic report. The workforce has evolved.

Lending

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.

Finance

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.”

Agents

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.”

Technology

Housing Wire

JULY 30, 2025

Luxury Presence has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to automate digital marketing for real estate agents. The system — called the Autonomous AI Marketing Team — includes four AI -powered specialists that independently manage tasks such as lead nurturing, SEO optimization, content creation and digital advertising.

Agents

Housing Wire

JUNE 26, 2025

We quickly realized our shared values, service offerings and technology would provide significant benefits, and we are excited for Yuval to join our senior leadership team as president of brokerage services. Dream Town — founded in 1998 — is known for its early embrace of digital platforms and online marketing. 2 by transaction sides.

Brokerage

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. ,

Agents

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

Technology

Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2025

Real estate software provider Lone Wolf Technologies is launching an integration with Zillow -owned customer relationship management system Follow Up Boss as it aims to connect transaction, marketing and accounting tools in one system.

Technology

Housing Wire

APRIL 3, 2025

From fluctuating interest rates and evolving regulations to technological disruptions and shifting consumer demands, mortgage leaders today face unprecedented volatility and complexity. In mortgage finance and real estate , the only constant is change. This ongoing flux demands adaptive, resilient, and deeply principled leadership.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2025

“After 28 years in mortgage technology, I’ve been committed to one goal: helping more Americans achieve homeownership,” FinLocker CEO Henry Cason said in a statement. FinLocker also explained that it aims to offer a “competitive edge in a challenging market with a tangible cost” for loan officers.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JUNE 18, 2025

The new tool, Class Valuation Analysis (CVA), offers licensed appraiser-led reviews of existing appraisal reports by incorporating automated valuation model (AVM) technology. “In CVA is structured to comply with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice and is intended for use across various stages of the loan life cycle.

Due diligence

Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Why most teams struggle to scale Scaling a real estate team to $100 million in production is a daunting challenge, but the biggest roadblock isn’t market conditions or competition — it’s outdated strategies. Delegate or outsource tasks where weaknesses exist, such as transaction coordination, lead follow-up, or marketing.

Development

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.

Mortgages

Housing Wire

JULY 24, 2025

The company’s affiliation with Century 21 provides access to the brand’s national marketing platform, lead generation tools, technology resources and agent training. Not to mention, Patrick also serves an incredibly lucrative market, just outside of Baltimore and with close proximity to D.C. metro as well.

Branding

Housing Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

The company’s management portfolio will reportedly rise to 230,000 units across 50 markets. We’re excited about combining the two companies local property management operations and robust technology products. The acquisition follows more than 30 made by Evernest since the company arrived on-scene in 2008.

Property Management

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.” ”

Technology

Housing Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Marketing Marketing is essential for building awareness and staying competitive in the title industry, yet many professionals struggle to find the time. In fact, 88% of marketers now believe their organization must increase its use of AI to meet customer expectations and remain competitive.

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