Housing Wire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In February 2024, the company closed a $28 million Series D funding round from new and existing investors, including Gaingels , Moderne Ventures , QED Investors and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff. This followed a $57 million Series C round in February 2022. In 2018, the company raised $3.5 An acquisition spree followed.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Here are 14 real estate trends Gen Z buyers won’t pass up. Gen Z likes to stay close to home With the continued trend of remote work and little desire for a long commute, Gen Z buyers are moving to homes in walkable communities with nearby amenities. Gen Z values diversity and inclusivity.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Jaro’s products are designed to offer new and improved solutions to help lenders tackle modern-day appraisals with pinpoint accuracy designed to eliminate bias and urban pricing discrepancies as homebuyers migrate between the suburbs and major cities. In fact, almost 20% of modern companies are fully remote as of 2024 , according to the U.S.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 30, 2022

With first hand knowledge of how complex and time consuming appraisals can be, Reggora is motivated to streamline and modernize the process, benefiting appraisers, lenders and buyers themselves. As appraisal modernization continues to take shape, Reggora is uniquely positioned to lead its customers through the ever changing landscape.

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Appraisal Buzz

JANUARY 9, 2025

Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) has published a Final Rule in the Federal Register to modernize and strengthen regulations for the HOME Investment Partnership Program (HOME). For more than 30 years, HOME has provided funding to build new homes, assist home buyers, and provide rental assistance.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

But if you reinvent the title agent’s workflow, you can expand to the players around them, the lender, the real estate agents and the buyers and sellers, and you can actually transform their relationship with the title company. The post In the race to modernize title, firms double down on software appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Additionally, with cooperative compensation removed from MLS systems, alongside the new requirement for buyer-agency agreements, agents must speak up and share their value clearly and confidently. Manage massive lead databases with precision Quality over quantity is a forgotten mindset in the modern real estate world.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As recently as a year ago, the New York-based firm closed a $28 million Series D funding round from new and existing investors, including Gaingels, Moderne Ventures, QED Investors and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff. The platform shut down its operations in early December 2024. This followed a $57 million Series C round in February 2022.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

However, things have changed now and buyers have to have a separate buyer agreement. And if those fees can’t be negotiated into the transaction, the buyer is going to have to come out to pocket now in order to have a human Realtor represent them.” reAlpha is just one of the many AI agent platforms that have sprung up recently.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The essence of our industrys defense of modern MLS infrastructure rests upon a fragile foundation that says, “Its not perfect, but its the best we can do.” These domains arrived long before modern technology enabled efficiencies of scale. A buyer wants to pay the least, while a seller wants to maximize their price.

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DECEMBER 6, 2024

Building on existing relationships is the quickest and easiest way to keep your pipeline filled with active buyers and sellers, so you dont have to worry about dry spells. Your newsletter content should be a mix market updates, buyer and seller advice, community news and events, and storytelling.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The duo explore strategic negotiation skills in the modern real estate market and best practices for agents in adapting to the new rules mandated by the industry-changing settlement from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Following that, Velt and De Grote explore negotiation tactics regarding buyer-seller agreement forms.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

The new system is described as an upgrade to zavvie s portal for cash buyers and boosts its Cash Buy Before Sell program, giving homeowners added financial flexibility to purchase their next home before selling their current one.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

HomeFinder AI users can type their exact search parameters into the platform — including phrases like a “modern kitchen with tons of natural light” or a “spacious backyard with a pool” — and they will be matched with properties. At Howard Hanna, we’re always looking for innovative ways to enhance the client experience.

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Housing Wire

JULY 9, 2021

Scale is a simple way for real estate tech companies to build custom, on-brand, and modern closing experiences using Qualia’s flexible infrastructure. #1. 75% of buyers and sellers. 82% of buyers. 36% of home buyers. are 37 years or younger, making millennials the largest share of buyers. Get More Info.

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DECEMBER 30, 2024

Proposed Solutions According to the report, policymakers can address these barriers by: Modernizing Credit Scoring Models: Federal agencies should adopt newer scoring systems like FICO 10T and VantageScore 4.0, Click here for more on Pews report on rural housing nationwide.

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JULY 18, 2024

Launched in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis to weed out bad actors, the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System & Registry (NMLS) is scheduled to be updated this weekend as part of a long-term modernization project.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

It covers structural repairs (such as foundations and new roofs), modernization of kitchens and bathrooms, and energy-efficiency and climate-resiliency projects. Increased use of 203(k) mortgages will help modernize and revitalize homes, which supports affordable housing supply and strengthens neighborhoods.”

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Many sellers have returned to offering concessions and dropping prices to entice buyers. They are a focal point for potential homebuyers , so updating a kitchen before selling can result in increased buyer interest and a high ROI for sellers. We’ve all witnessed the housing market slowdown that has occurred over the last year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The last two years of soaring mortgage rates and rising home prices have brought the fastest erosion in housing market affordability in modern history, and it’s hurt first-time homebuyers the most. buyer hovers around $2,866, an all-time high according to Redfin. In Newark, buyers need $160,000.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Home Renters Dish Out Their Amenity Wishlist A modernized kitchen was the feature that most house tenants mentioned when asked what they would change about their property. To read the full report, including more data, charts, and methodology, click here.

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JULY 16, 2024

Over the last several years, these homes have become even more modernized. For potential buyers in the Gen Z and millennials age groups—born between 1981 and 2012—these newly built, visually appealing homes provide another option to become a homeowner at a price they may be able to better afford. year-over-year.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The new partnership will let real estate agents share immersive listings with potential clients on both platforms, boosting visibility and simplifying the home search process for buyers. These statistics highlight shifting preferences for modern consumers who rely on digital tools to make homebuying decisions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In just a few years, Figure has become the number one nonbank HELOC provider, largely because the capital markets and regulators are supportive of our modern approach. In June, the firm announced the launch of Figure Connect , a blockchain-based marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of private credit loans.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

More than taking pictures, videos, and plotting property boundaries on a map, drone mapping provides buyers and sellers with low-cost, high-resolution, and frequently updated imagery. Although drone mapping can assist marketing efforts and helps buyers make informed decisions, it is not ideal for all properties. Drone Mapping.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Last May, EasyKnock gobbled up Ribbon , a power buyer firm, and in September, it acquired home maintenance platform Onder. Investors included Blumberg Capital , Gaingels , Moderne Ventures , QED Investors , Viola FinTech , and Zillow founder, Spencer Rascoff’s venture firm 75 & Sunny.

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2021

They’re used to modern experiences with great service and digital experience. The idea behind Tomo is to help the buyer get an upper hand when buying a home. Instead of automated platforms, Armstrong mentioned that Tomo will connect buyers with top-local agents who know their way around the markets they serve. It’s early.

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JUNE 13, 2024

Enhancing payment processes with modern technology can ease the remittance experience for consumers and enables greater speed, efficiency, and control of collections for lenders. Digital mortgage payment options provide the same instantaneous, verified sending of payments as modern communication platforms do for messages.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

“Zavvie Pro keeps the modern agent at the center of every sales transaction, no matter what the homeowner decides,” Lane Hornung, zavvie co-founder, and CEO, said in a statement. “Webuilt zavvie Pro to help the modern agent generate more seller leads, win more listings, and always earn a commission.”.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

Modern manufactured homes are an unusual feature of today’s housing market, the rare homeownership opportunity that is both lower-cost and high-quality. Credit standards for home-only applicants are much higher than for buyers seeking a mortgage, and this helps explain the high denial rates.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 24, 2021

Pacaso is a website that has home listings available for purchase on a timeshare basis, “modernizing the decades-old practice of co-ownership.” Buyers can own one-eighth to half of the vacation home. Rascoff in October started the company with Austin Allison, the founder of dotloop, which Zillow bought in 2015.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Investors included Blumberg Capital , Gaingels , Moderne Ventures , QED Investors , Viola FinTech , and Zillow founder, Spencer Rascoff’s venture firm 75 & Sunny. In May, EasyKnock acquired struggling power buyer firm Ribbon for an undisclosed amount. EasyKnock received $57 million in venture capital last year.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 6, 2021

It had a large, fenced-in yard, modern appliances in an updated kitchen, a “man cave” for her husband, beamed ceilings, a massive master suite and was located in a good school district. An LO in Texas told HousingWire that the competition is intense where he is, and buyers are “doing extraordinary things,” which has changed deal structures.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2022

we’re helping potential buyers make more informed decisions, while empowering agents and sellers to market their properties more effectively, and supporting a modern valuation process for both appraisers and lenders,” said Jeff Allen, president of CubiCasa. said Allen. caught up,” he said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 26, 2023

It is also training machine learning models to get better at responding to users’ queries in “human-like sentences.” “Beyond easy-to-filter criteria like bedrooms and bathrooms, buyers are considering many other specific features that match their unique lifestyle,” Jenny Arden, Zillow’s chief design officer, said in a statement.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Each episode will showcase three “weird, wonderful and wildly quirky homes” and share the backstories of their buyers and sellers, according to the announcement made by HGTV. The series will take fans into the action, touring one-of-a-kind homes on the market.

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JUNE 17, 2022

Amanda Hill: Lenders see appraisal modernization as a top priority by Maria Volkova. Similarly, first-time buyers may decide to delay their searches until the market provides more options, both in terms of inventory as well as home prices, and rates decrease. HousingWire: What keeps you up at night and why?

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