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Optimal Blue Introduces AI Assistant Designed for Mortgage Lending Executives

Appraisal Buzz

Called Ask Obi, the new AI assistant is designed to provide mortgage lending executives with instant, actionable insights from their Optimal Blue products and data. The new assistant will be available to Optimal Blue clients for beta testing later this month.

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Reimagine common space, foster community in multifamily design

Inman

Thoughtfully designed common spaces in multifamily communities, Michael Zaransky writes, strengthen resident engagement, deepen the sense of belonging and, ultimately, enhance retention.

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The best real estate website design trends for 2025 (+ why they work)

Housing Wire

Real estate website design is evolving fast. In 2025, effective websites leverage beautiful imagery, videography, graphics, copywriting, captivating typography and user experience design (UX) to educate buyers and sellers and sell you as a hyper-local market expert and trusted advisor. Great design ensures that they wont.

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Reshaping appraisals: Jaro’s high-tech solutions innovate the appraisal process in an evolving real estate market

Housing Wire

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. Jaro stands tall as the only end-to-end appraisal platform on the market.

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Gen X homebuyers should prioritize aging in place: Boston Globe

Housing Wire

In most of our remodeling, we use a design technique called Universal Design,” said Brian Harvey, owner of Boston-area business Harvey Home Modifications. That essentially is a design that will serve anyone of any physical capability in the house.”

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Title Success enters the M&A matchmaking business

Housing Wire

Title valuation , brokerage and consulting services firm Title Success, which is powered by Bowe Digital , announced Monday that it has launched a newly designed website. The new site offers a listing service for title companies looking to sell their operations.

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Climate risk is rising. It calls for a rethinking of home insurance coverage

Housing Wire

For homeowners with conventional loans backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , insurance at replacement cost is mandatory, but flood insurance is only required in designated flood zones. Others say homeowners insurance wasn’t designed around catastrophe risk — it was designed around idiosyncratic storms or trees falling on roofs.

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