Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Ryan Barone, RentRedis co-founder and CEO, said that landlords are increasingly seeking efficiency through technology. Using our platform to streamline processes from listings and tenant screening to rent collection and maintenance coordination allows landlords to work efficiently and scale quickly.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The buyer rents the home as a tenant first, typically paying an up-front fee or down payment under an option contract to preserve the right to purchase the property within a set time period. For example, the sellers, usually also the landlords, are generally responsible for keeping the property safe and livable for tenants.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In addition, her office alleges that EasyKnock violated some of Massachusetts’ landlord-tenant laws. “I Some of these changes include lowering rents for some existing tenants and complying with state landlord-tenant laws. Under the terms of the settlement EasyKnock must comply with all landlord-tenant laws.

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Inman

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Blanket is property management software that centers on portfolio growth rather than reactive, day-to-day oversight of rental properties. It can do the latter, but the former makes it a unique entry to the market worth consideration for anyone who wants become a full-time landlord.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The landscape of real estate is undergoing significant transformations in 2024, driven by a confluence of technological advancements, shifting market dynamics and evolving consumer behaviors. Remote work: Technology enablement creates more flexibility and freedom.

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Housing Wire

MAY 7, 2024

Las Vegas -based housing technology startup BOXABL on Tuesday announced that it has received approval to begin selling a factory-built accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in California , which could provide more options in a state strapped for affordable housing options.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 25, 2023

In a joint statement , the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, CFPB, FTC, and EEOC outlined a commitment to enforcement of existing laws and regulations despite a lack of regulatory oversight currently in place regarding emerging AI technologies. Private and public entities use these [emerging A.I.]

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Mortgage technology firm Xactus named Michael Crockett as its chief operating officer. In his expanded role, Crockett will guide day-to-day operations and key departments at Xactus, including credit, verifications and tenant screening. He previously served as the company’s chief data officer.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2024

Our team was very diverse in experience levels and background, and I think that helped us come up with a good solution, which was around consumer experience, tenant screening and some credit and underwriting. SW: What were some of the things your team considered? ML: One lens we used was the fraud that exists today.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2022

Those new investments include venture capital plays, particularly in the financial-technology arena. Abate described technology as being key to “building efficiencies” to accomplish the real estate investment trust’s goals. To date, RWT Horizons has made 21 investments in 18 companies. Oasis Pro Markets , a U.S.-regulated

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Housing Wire

JULY 16, 2024

According to RentRedi, the platform provides landlords with a web and mobile app that serves a number of tasks in the process of renting a unit, including collecting rent, marketing vacancies, screening tenants, signing leases and organizing maintenance. NAR has been busy adding partners this year to its Realtor Benefits Program.

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Housing Wire

MAY 20, 2024

These strategic integrations will provide agents in Utah, Colorado and Texas with an instant “ApplyLink” for rental listings , significantly reducing the time spent processing tenant applications. Additionally, RentSpree’s tenant screening functionality will be seamlessly integrated into the MLS listing modules.

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Appraisal Buzz

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The study, which examined more than 336,000 evaluations for 11,300 multifamily homes, demonstrates unequivocally that, although desirable locations and first-rate amenities are important, online reviews from present and former tenants are what really influence rental decisions. With an average rating of 4.57 stars by 0.44.

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Housing Wire

MAY 10, 2023

The company offers direct-source data portability tools for mortgage, lending, banking, background and tenant screening, and other use cases. Argyle’s technology has helped numerous businesses to streamline their income and employment verification processes.

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Inman

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Boom's new product will allow virtually any large-scale property management platform or rent payment gateway to directly embed its payment reporting module for faster, simpler reporting of tenant payment records.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The bill, which Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law last year, requires landlords to offer tenants the option to have their on-time rent payments reported to credit bureaus. This is where technology comes in. The growing use of technology in the housing industry reflects a broader shift toward more efficient and accessible solutions.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Pareja believes there should be exceptions, such as when a property is owned by a high-profile person, if it is tenant-occupied or if it’s still under construction. To close out the conversation, Wheeler asks Pareja about how the new rules and evolving technology impacts the industry in terms of who gets the customer first.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Today, modern technology , including Pretium’s platforms, cut out the middleman by allowing firms to invest directly in assets, decide the kind of leverage they want and determine how Pretium will manage the assets over time.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2022

And, finally, the House subcommittee reported that the “total number of tenants behind on rent and fees increased by almost two-fold [over the survey period], with tenants with rental arrears increasing from 11.3% in 2021, and the number of tenants with fee arears increasing from 10% in 2018 to 20.7% in 2018 to $205.29

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Housing Wire

APRIL 19, 2021

Knox automates and oversees a property’s finances and taxes, insurance, leasing and legal, tenant and property care, banking, and bill pay. Knox oversees a portfolio of more than $100 million in investment properties, and was named one of HousingWire’s 2021 Tech100 companies.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

” The FTC claims that the company hid certain fees — such as those for smart-home technology, air filters and internet packages — that potentially added more than $1,700 per year to the cost of renting. This resulted in the return of only 39.2%

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

We’re already in the tenant space and in the auto space, she said. Rollout of the newly enhanced platform will take place in phases and is set to include integrations with loan origination systems, point-of-sale platforms and government-sponsored enterprise certifications, according to TransUnion.

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2024

Sarah Wheeler: The idea of “responsible AI” points to how different AI is in scope and potential (for good and bad) compared to other kinds of technology. Can you remember another time when we would apply that kind of framework to a specific technology? Brooke Anderson-Tompkins: This is a great point.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 22, 2021

HousingWire’s virtual demo days are designed specifically to help mortgage industry decision makers identify the technology solutions they need to operate efficiently and securely. “In the early days of the pandemic, we acted quickly to help remove the threat of eviction for residents of the more than 4.2 Mortgage Tech Demo Day.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Effective natural language processing technologies extract deeper meaning from unstructured data to make a difference in the lives of countless would-be homebuyers who are credit invisible or have not had the ability to obtain access to affordable housing finance. The role of consumer transaction data in increasing homeownership access.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Embrace technology If you still rely on paper and pen, it’s time to enter the 21st century. Technology is critical when it comes to streamlining communication, managing data, and responding to emergency situations. Think about real estate professionals who thrived during the pandemic , compared to those who struggled.

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Housing Wire

JULY 28, 2021

. “His experience running a marketplace that connects millions of consumers with enterprise customers is particularly relevant to RentPath, whose core business is connecting people looking for long-term home rentals with property owners and managers looking for prospective tenants,” Kelman said.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

How technology supports agents. Apartments.com leads the industry in providing advanced tools and the most innovative rental technology available. With map drawing tools, high resolution photos and video, and online applications, potential tenants can make housing decisions from the comfort of their own home.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 4, 2024

RentSpree offers rental software solutions such as tenant screening, online applications, document automation, e-signatures, denial and approval communications as well as property landing pages. In October , RentSpree also added a rent reporting feature.

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Housing Wire

JULY 29, 2024

But technology — particularly leveraging generative AI — can help solve these challenges in new ways. The sprint culminated with a demo day on Thursday where 12 teams presented their solutions to a panel of technology, regulation and housing experts. Each team presenting a use case had to address risk and compliance concerns.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2024

The current project location is still operational and occupied by key information technology teams and senior leaders. million in tenant improvements in North Carolina since 2021, the letter added. Pennymac invested more than $1.5

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In October 2022 , JPMorgan Chase launched a platform that automates the invoicing and receipt of online rent payments, serving property owners, managers and tenants. It’s a win-win.” RentSpree was ranked #992 on Inc. 5000 ’s fastest-growing private companies in 2023.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

By year end, he said, 73,000 tenant households across 284 properties had been offered the program, DeVito said. Hayden, who will serve on the GSE’s committees for operations and technology, as well as the committee on risk, started his career as a loan officer and loan purchaser.

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Inman

JULY 13, 2023

Technology company Entrata, which builds an end-to-end business solution for the multifamily sector, has acquired industry colleague Rent Dynamics in an all-cash nine-figure deal, according to Entrata.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

HousingWire recently spoke with Kevin Koon-Koon, chief technology officer at Grid 151, about streamlining and simplifying how mortgage lenders interact with the rest of the ecosystem. Kevin Koon-Koon: Many mortgage lenders have invested heavily into technology, people and process improvement to modernize the homebuying journey.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Its ability to remove friction from the buying and selling process, while adding assurance, flexibility, and customer-centricity, aligns perfectly with our core tenants here at Flyhomes. This deal strengthens our offerings and gives us more tools to serve more customers looking for a better way to buy and sell a home.”

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 23, 2024

As a result, landlords can align rental prices, and tenants are limited in their ability to successfully negotiate counter offers or seek discounts. This type of conduct is egregious.” The complaint alleges that landlords using YieldStar agreed to provide RealPage “competitively sensitive data” that isn’t available to the public.

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