Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2024

Sarah Wheeler: Let’s talk about your background, because you have both technology and real estate experience. Shayan Hamidi: I studied computer science, economics and math and my background is technology. It became one of the fastest-growing brokerages at the time in Canada, and then I sold that in 2014, and moved to the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JULY 21, 2023

Maggie Wu has returned to Compass , and she’s bringing her four-person The W Team to the New York brokerage. In December 2021, she had left Compass to join the young brokerage SERHANT. With the move, Wu returns to where she began her career as junior partner on the Jing Chen Team in 2019. where she launched her own team.

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Propmodo

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They have invested in numerous tech companies via their venture arm Spark, acquired AI startup Skyline AI in 2021, and hired a CTO to focus on developing and deploying new tech. But its new partnership with Microsoft for AI solutions could close the gap. Another AI use case is unlocking new insights from complicated datasets.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based ICE Mortgage Technology announced this week two enterprise agreements to integrate its eClose solution to Maxwell and Roostify platforms, enabling a more streamlined closing process for lenders and borrowers. Roostify, a mortgage technology provider, will integrate the solution to its digital home lending platform.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2022

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 ). LLR is not a newcomer to mortgage technology or the overall fintech market. This isn’t a new story in mortgage lending or real estate brokerage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

The buy is Compass’s first since the residential brokerage started publicly trading shares earlier this month. In effect, said one Bay Area broker, who requested anonymity to speak candidly, “All the agents in California were starting to use Glide for backroom technology.”.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Eligible nominees must be corporate finance, capital markets or accounting executives within the mortgage origination or a real estate brokerage spaces and will be selected based on financial management, strategic thinking and contribution to their organization. So what does it take to be among the HW Finance Leaders?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

While our industry is notorious for its lethargic adoption of new technologies, it is inevitable that AI will reshape many of the traditional and archaic processes that exist today. At the same time, there are numerous examples of ground-breaking implementations of this transformative technology that are already being used today.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2022

The title insurance space isn’t generally known for placing outsized bets on technology. Since we now have good coverage across those segments, our more recent investments have primarily focused in two areas – mortgage technology and commercial real estate. As of Sept. Is this something you are thinking about?

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In January 2019, Keller, a charismatic Texan who co-founded the company in 1983, took back control of the brokerage from longtime employee John Davis, who had been CEO for just two years. At the time, the residential brokerage industry was grappling with a wave of consolidation, disruptions in technology, poaching wars and slowing growth.

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GeekEstate

OCTOBER 29, 2021

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 market map real estate technology companies operating across every phase of the home purchase value chain. As such, we’ve included the Blend logo in those areas.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 7, 2021

Technology has given consumers the power of choice and expedited the entire real estate purchasing process. Successful agents, brokerages and loan officers of the future are going to rely significantly on technology to find, nurture and engage with buyers and home sellers while also playing an expanding role as personal advisors.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Utah-based software developer offers a private-label digital mortgage platform and mobile app designed to connect lenders with borrowers and real estate agents. Most recently, the private-equity firm invested in Real , a technology-powered real estate brokerage in 2020, and perhaps most notably, e-recording provider Simplifile in 2013.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Too many real estate agents are watching artificial intelligence (AI) from the sidelines, assuming technology will never replace them. The history of AI and where it is going The Turing Test was developed by Alan Turing in 1950. However, it was deemed as too challenging technologically so it languished. What is next?

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Realty Biz

JULY 1, 2022

NYSE: COMP), a leading technology-enabled residential real estate brokerage, today announced the appointment of Dawanna Williams to its board of directors effective July 1, 2022. Williams currently serves as Founder and Managing Principal of Dabar Development Partners. Compass, Inc. About Compass.

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RIS Media

APRIL 13, 2022

Designed to further technology innovation in the real estate services market, FWD is a one-of-a-kind pitch competition that highlights forward-thinking technology, ideas and solutions to unlock opportunity for agents and brokers, the company stated. Realogy Holdings Corp. As the leading provider of digital earnest money in the U.S.,

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Look, similar to other technology companies that have gone before us, we strongly believe in taking big swings and failing fast. Those were Zillow CEO Rich Barton’s closing remarks on Tuesday’s earnings call, after the CEO shockingly announced the wind down of the Zillow Offers iBuying program, plus a pending lay off of 2,000 employees.

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The Close

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Are you considering taking the leap of faith and heading out on your own, but you don’t know if you should start your own brokerage from scratch or purchase a real estate franchise? In my 28-year real estate career, I have built two independent brokerages and was an investor in two franchises with Keller Williams Realty.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 18, 2022

a pay-at-closing home improvement solution for real estate agents, brokerages and home sellers, has announced a $65M Series B funding round to support continued growth in the untapped market for fix first, pay-at-closing home improvement. Curbio, Inc., Curbio has raised a total of $93M since its founding in late 2017.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 30, 2023

Tech advancements in the broker space, which caught up to retail lenders ‘ levels, were another factor that helped him make the transition. “I think maybe if you look back a few years, the broker space from a technology perspective was lacking, but has really caught up to where retail was (…).

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2022

Nonbank heavyweight loanDepot announced on Thursday an operational restructuring with the creation of a new business division called mello, under the leadership of the digital technology veteran Zeenat Sidi. He’ll focus on refining and building out the lender’s technology stack.

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Realty Biz

MAY 29, 2023

Here are some of the newest developments in the industry. The newest iteration of the technology, called GPT-4, is lightyears ahead of its predecessors in its ability to understand queries submitted by users. GPT-4 is nothing short of revolutionary, and early adopters in the real estate technology field have taken notice.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 10, 2021

The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) applauds real estate professionals for quickly adapting as best as possible to remote work and virtual tour technologies to keep real estate transactions in motion despite limited in-person meetings and home tours in many states.

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Realty Biz

JANUARY 4, 2023

People have developed new digital behaviors and now expect: to have information about properties available in real-time online. The ultimate goal behind such websites is to generate an agent commission upon closing a deal. you might need a custom-developed real estate portal with a powerful CRM system like Salesforce underneath.

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RIS Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

RE/MAX launched daily live webinars covering technology, video, social media, digital marketing and conducting business virtually. They arranged for free Zoom Pro accounts for RE/MAX brokerages around the world—with affiliates logging over 25 million minutes of video conferencing. They developed new shows for Facebook Live.

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Realty Biz

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

JPAR® – Real Estate, America’s #1 fastest-growing, 100% commission brokerage, today announced the launch of its industry-leading technology and marketing platform powered by a tech partnership with kvCORE. “We The new technology platform includes the following components and more. POWERED BY KVCORE.

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Boom Town

MARCH 23, 2021

Brokermint’s technology consolidates and automates all back office and transaction management functions through easy-to-use, scalable software solutions. By using Brokermint, leading real estate brokerages, teams, and agents can simplify complex back office tasks, efficiently close transactions, and focus on driving growth. “By

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McKissock

AUGUST 15, 2021

Our recent survey found real estate agent income varies by brokerage type — so you can maximize your earnings by choosing a brokerage that’s more likely to boost your profits. Here’s what we know about how your brokerage can impact your bottom line. That depends on the brokerage. Not every brokerage is created equal.

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RIS Media

AUGUST 27, 2021

As technology and data continue to transform the real estate industry and spur competition, some brokerage concierge programs have been developed to provide their agents a leg up. They also make more money for clients, their agents and, of course, brokerages. Not All-Inclusive. That’s the world Curbio is creating.

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Realty Biz

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The brokerage and the building were handed down to the owner’s nephew, who decided to close the business and sell the building. Here are a few examples of how I infused business principles into my real estate brokerage: Focus on What’s Important Now. My agent, Renee Cheesman, was affiliated with a small firm. Website: [link].

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Whether big or small, title companies are deploying technology to improve the ?ow ow and ease of the entire closing process. Two of the biggest developments have been the phenomenal growth of remote online notarization (RON) and document management platforms.

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Realty Biz

MARCH 27, 2023

The brokerage has served the surrounding San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange and Los Angeles counties for the past 19 years. Black and Taylor will pursue strategic mergers and acquisitions to expand the brokerage’s footprint in the area. According to realtor.com ® , the median home sales price in Chino Hills is $895,000.

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RIS Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Over the last several years, Zillow has been transitioning from a real estate search portal into a streamlined buying and selling entity that offers iBuying services through Zillow Offers , and mortgage, title and escrow services through Zillow Home Loans and Zillow Closing Services. ” This is a developing story.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2020

HW Media, publisher of HousingWire, FinLedger, and producer of Engage Events, today announced it has closed on the strategic acquisition of REAL Trends, the residential real estate industry’s leading report that ranks the performance of the top U.S. brokerage firms. Minor & Brown PC served as legal counsel to REAL Trends.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 10, 2022

Motto Mortgage, a national mortgage brokerage franchise, and wemlo , a mortgage processing solution with an all-in-one digital platform, tapped Chris Erickson as vice president of product and strategy for both brands this week. Goldman will be responsible for Floify’s sales development strategies.

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RIS Media

JANUARY 24, 2022

Christie’s International Real Estate is finalizing the sale of its company-owned Manhattan brokerage office to Brown Harris Stevens, the company has announced. The acquisition included a 20-agent company-owned brokerage office in New York City. billion in closed volume. The company has 250 agents in seven offices.

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Realty Biz

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The brokerage has four offices along Colorado’s Front Range in the state’s two largest cities, Denver and Colorado Springs. They focus on being a full-service firm that serves the entire spectrum of clientele including first-time homebuyers, luxury vacation homes, land development, ranches and more. for outdoor enthusiasts.

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