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1.5KZillow 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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1.1KMarriott 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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2.8KBeyond 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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1.4KNew 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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3.1KDigital’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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1.7KZillow 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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3.4KRedfin 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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4.2KMoney 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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6.5KAre 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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2.9KRising 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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7.9KDivvy 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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5.8KHomebuilder 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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3.4KThe 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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2.4KDomino 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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2.2KHomeLight 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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6.3KZillow 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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5.0KThe 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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3.2KNotaries 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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6.2KAmazon 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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3.9KAirbnb 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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3.2KCannabis 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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3.8KMorty 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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4.0KHome 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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5.7KUber, 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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4.0KRenters 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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3.4KAirbnb 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....
