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6.4KLooking Over The (Digital) Horizon As Home Sales Peak
February might well prove to be a month we look back on with nostalgia at economic data, where employment was strong, consumer...
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2.0KBadi Rolls Out AI Room Booking App In NY
As it joins the bevy of firms aiming to change the home rentals market, the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered long-term room rental app...
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5.7KCustomer Experience Surpasses Brand, Price
This is the year that customer experience surpasses brand and price as the most important factor in retail, according to several studies,...
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2.3KZillow Wagers On Flipping Houses With ‘iBuying’
With its Zestimate that taps into algorithms to judge the current price of a house, Zillow has had a reputation for being...
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4.7KUS Home Sales Hit Highest January Peak In Years
Homebuilders in America received so many orders for houses last month that the market experienced a January surge it hasn’t seen in...
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1.9KAirBnB Blocks Under Age 25 From Booking In Canada After Toronto Violence
To prevent so-called “party house” violence, Airbnb has begun restricting some bookings in Canada from renters under the age of 25. The...
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2.0KHomie Unlocks $23M In Funding To Expand Its Homebuyer Program
Real estate has nearly always been based on direct (often multiple) interactions between buyers and sellers, though the industry continues to adapt...
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4.9KHome Buying Goes Digital And Comes With Cash Back
Location, location, location: It’s the mantra of real estate. And in the digital age, the ideal location for, well, finding the ideal location...
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2.3KCautious Property Firms Put The Brakes On Rapid Growth
No longer charging into market spaces (no matter the cost), many real estate startups are now slowing their growth to more carefully...
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2.8KLA’s CREXi Real Estate Marketplace Lands $30M For Digital Expansion
Online commercial real estate marketplace CREXi — which serves as a digital toolkit of sorts for buyers, sellers and investors — has...
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1.8KGermany’s Home Startup Lands $12M To Expand Housing Rental App
Berlin-based Home, a tenant and landlord mutual engagement company, has raised €11million in a Series A round of funding from Capnamic, EQT...
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2.3KReal Estate Tech Firm Perch Gets New Name, Raises $36M
Real estate technology firm Perch has rebranded as Orchard while raising $36 million in new equity funding led by Navitas, with participation...
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3.3KReal Estate Market Bounces Back With 1.2 Pct Jump In Pending Home Sales
The index of pending home sales increased 1.2 percent in November after a fall in October that followed two consecutive months of...
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2.7KAirbnb Competitor Domio Lands $100M; Aims To Double Market Share
Domio, a startup that designs and rents apartment hotels, has raised $100 million in funding to expand both nationally and globally to...
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2.8KZillow Expands Zillow Offers To LA, Orange County
Zillow Offers launched in Los Angeles and Orange County on Monday (Dec. 9), its second-largest housing market in the nation, GeekWire reported....
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1.9KThe Millennial Real Estate Boom Beckons?
The saying goes that the future belongs to the young. So, too, apparently, does real estate. In the 2020 National Housing Forecast...
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5.4KWeWork Says New Business Model Will Drive Profits By 2023
In a staff presentation, new WeWork Chairman Marcelo Claure tore up the old business model of the company and promised the group would move...
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3.8KStudy: US Housing Market Slows Down As Homeowners Stay Put Longer
U.S. homeowners’ decision to stay in their homes longer is keeping much-needed inventory off the real estate market, causing a slip in...
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2.7KZillow Challenger ZeroDown Hits $150M Valuation
ZeroDown, a financial and real estate technology startup looking to take on Zillow and Redfin, has been given a valuation of $150...
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2.5KMarriott Launches Luxury Homesharing As Rewards Perk
Although Marriott International launched its Homes & Villas homesharing program, the company insists it doesn’t have any intention of competing with Airbnb...
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3.7KBeyond WeWork’s Flameout, Real Estate’s Platform Model Rework
WeWork’s IPO flameout begs the question of whether it was, and is, an old economy company after all. For firms worthy of the...
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2.0KNew RealPage Credit Facilities Expand Borrowing Capacity To $1.2B
RealPage, a leading global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry, announced it has entered into new credit...
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3.8KDigital’s Impact On The Consumer’s Biggest Purchase: Their Home
One of the most fertile grounds for disruption in this digital world — ongoing, significant disruption that promises to impact one of...
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2.2KZillow Brings Fast Cash Home Selling Platform To South Florida
Home sellers in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and other parts of South Florida now have the option of getting a cash offer from...
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3.7KRedfin Testing Online Real Estate Bids
Redfin, the real estate company based in Seattle, is rolling out a new program that enables home buyers to bid on properties...
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4.6KMoney Laundering Causes Rising Canadian Home Prices
Home prices increased about 5 percent in Canadian province British Columbia last year thanks to money laundering. According to a report in The...
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7.0KAre Consumers Ready To Buy And Sell Homes Online?
Way back in the day (which, in 21st century digital economy terms, probably means a decade or so), smart and important people...
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3.1KRising Interest Rates, Housing Prices Keep Millennials Renting
Millennials are being shut out of the real estate market as rising home prices and interest rates are pushing homeownership out of...
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8.4KDivvy Founders On Building A Millennial Bridge Between Renting And Homeownership
For much of the early 2010s, there was an emerging piece of conventional wisdom that millennials were on the verge of radically...
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6.0KHomebuilder Downgrade A Tough Housing Market Harbinger?
Caution, warns a sell side analyst regarding homebuilder stocks, and the sector swoons. As seen on Friday (Sept. 21), homebuilder equities took...
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3.6KThe Digital Evolution Of Apartment Hunting
Twelve years ago, when New York Magazine profiled Craigslist and its founder Craig Newmark, they managed to call him “schlumpy” and “gnomish”...
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2.6KDomino Effect In The Wings Amid Global Housing Warning Signs?
To quote the great Jimi Hendrix: And so castles made of sand, fall into the sea. Eventually. So many metaphors. So little space in...
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2.6KHomeLight Inks Partnership With U.S. News & World Report
HomeLight, a marketplace for connecting homeowners with real estate agents, announced Tuesday (August 7) that it is collaborating with U.S. News &...
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7.1KZillow Gets Into Mortgages With Acquisition Of Mortgage Lenders Of America
Zillow, the online real estate company, is getting into the mortgage market, announcing Monday (August 6) that it is acquiring Mortgage Lenders...
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5.6KThe CFPB Drops Its Investigation Into Zillow With No Actions
Zillow, the online real estate company, disclosed Monday (June 25) that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) dropped a previously disclosed investigation into...
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US Median Home Value Increases 8.7 Percent
A new report shows that national home values are rising at their fastest pace in 12 years, rising 8.7 percent to a...
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3.5KNotaries Taking Note Of The Digital Documentation Push
Talk about analog to digital. The analog part? It’s been around for centuries. The digital part? In a way, it’s just getting...
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6.5KAmazon And Its Real Estate Effect
Is Amazon so big that it can change the real estate game in a way that might suit Amazon? Consider that the...
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Zillow To Flip Homes In Phoenix, Las Vegas
Zillow, the online real estate company, is getting into the business of buying and selling homes and will expand its Zillow Instant...
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Homeowners Are Carrying More Debt Thanks To Rising Home Prices, Mortgage Rates
With home prices rising and mortgage rates increasing, Americans are finding it hard to make a home purchase a reality, which could...
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Opendoor In Talks To Raise $200M In New Funding
Opendoor Labs, the buyer and reseller of homes, is in discussions about raising $200 million in a fresh round of financing. The...
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4.1KAirbnb Offers Multifamily Financing Solution Through RealtyShares
RealtyShares, a leading online marketplace for commercial real estate investing, announced it is now featured on the Airbnb site as a financing...
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Millennials And Minorities Most Hurt By Housing Crash
Younger and minority populations have been disproportionately affected by the socioeconomic repercussions of the real estate crash and the tighter regulations in...
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3.5KCannabis Startups Expected To Boost Warehouse Rents In Boston, L.A.
Industrial rents in already-expensive cities like Los Angeles and Boston are expected to get a boost because of weed startups, according to Bloomberg...
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4.0KMorty Raises $3M To Bring Its Online Mortgage Platform To The Masses
Morty, the New York-based mortgage startup, has raised $3 million in venture funding, which it will use to make its new mortgage...
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Zillow Debuts RealEstate.com, Targeting Millennials
While the amount of money spent by first-time home buyers may cause financial concerns, purchasing a piece of property isn’t exactly getting...
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4.1KHome Ownership Outpaces Rental For First Time In Decade
Signs indicate that U.S. buyers are feeling more optimistic about the housing market and the economy at large. The latest data released...
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5.9KUber, Lyft Boost Demand For Real Estate In Some Neighborhoods
Uber and Lyft, the ride-hailing apps taking cities by storm, is also having another positive impact: driving demand for real estate in certain neighborhoods....
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4.2KRenters Take Over In More Than Half Of US States
Renters now outnumber homeowners in more than half of the states in the United States, and the trend toward renting doesn’t look...
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3.6KAirbnb Considering A Move Into Long-Term Rental Market
Airbnb is considering a move into the long-term rental business, with Bloomberg Technology reporting that the company has asked McKinsey & Co....
