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1.1KPending Home Sales Down In May YOY, But Rose From Last Month
Pending home sales continue to be sluggish, according to year-over-year data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The Pending Home Sales...
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3.9KHow ‘Self-Touring’ And Digital Lockboxes Can Change Real Estate Rentals
The pandemic has the potential to change the way any number of business verticals operate — especially industries like real estate, which...
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2.8KPlatforms And AI Are Powering Real Estate Investing’s Digital 3.0 Shift
Stock markets are whipsawing. Bond yields, gyrating. Crypto? Bouncing around, to put it mildly. The pandemic has sent any number of investments...
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1.9KHelping Homeowners Access Home Equity Without Debt
When it comes to purchasing a home or attempting to take equity out of a home in cash form — there aren’t...
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5.2KBrookfield Delays Payments While Asking Tenants To Pay Up
Asset manager Brookfield, which owns stakes in numerous malls, is demanding retailers pay back rent even as the Toronto-based investment group has...
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4.1KRedfin On The US Housing Market’s Great Snapback (For Now)
For housing, the great snapback? As stock markets whipsaw (the Dow was off more 6 percent on Thursday), as the Federal Reserve...
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1.5KNew Manhattan Residential Listings Up, New Leases Plunge In May
It’s the perfect time to lease a New York City apartment as vacancies rose, causing rental listings to jump, CNBC reported. New...
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4.6KIs Data Aggregation The Key To Banking’s Future?
The pandemic is spurring new opportunities for financial institutions (FIs) of all sizes to improve the range of services they deliver to...
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2.0KZillow Reports More Long-Term Rental Requests
Rental company Zillow said on Thursday (June 4) that it was experiencing more requests for long-term rentals instead of the short-term ones...
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2.5KManhattan Apartment Sales Fell 84 Pct In May
Condominium sales in Manhattan plummeted by 84 percent in May as the COVID-19 pandemic and protests following the death of George Floyd...
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1.7KError-Filled Screening Reports Hurt Renters
The 2008 financial crisis fueled tenant screening to become a $1 billion industry, but some are asking at what cost. The New...
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1.8KConsumers Plunge Back Into Homebuying Market
There’s good news for the economy on the home-buying front. “Purchase applications increased 9 percent last week – the sixth consecutive weekly...
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1.7KApril Home Sales Slide As Buyers, Sellers Wait Out Pandemic
Home sales fell to a 10-year low in April as buying and selling have been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to...
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7.9KCitigroup Ponders Suburban Satellite Offices
As the country starts lifting stay-at-home mandates and people head back to the office, Citigroup is considering a temporary relocation to the...
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2.0KDemand For New Homes Climbs After Historic Drop
Homebuilder sentiment may be coming out of its worst slump ever, as new data showed confidence improving this month, with one caveat:...
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3.5KManhattan Sees Record-Low Number Of New Leases Amid Pandemic
New leases for Manhattan rentals plummeted by 70.9 percent year over year excluding renewals amid “shelter in place” measures made and enforced...
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2.1KHomebuying And Selling In The Time Of Social Distancing
Land. They’re not making any more of it, as the old saying goes, which is why real estate has always been considered...
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3.7KCrisis Puts Homeownership On Hold For Millennials
It could be the perfect time for millennials to stop throwing their money away on rent and buy a home — or...
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4.9KHomeLight CEO: Using Tech To Transform Real Estate Sales In The Age Of Social Distancing
In the best of the times, homebuying is a fraught process – stressful, time-consuming and marked by friction across several steps of a...
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1.7KUS Pending Home Sales Drop Almost 21 Pct As Buyers Stay Home
Pending single-family home sales fell by nearly 21 percent in March compared to February as the economic impact of COVID-19 took its...
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3.0KNOAH CEO: How A New Twist On Home Equity Helps Homeowners Bridge The Cash Crunch
As the economy has more or less ground to a halt over the last several weeks, time has become harrowing for homeowners...
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4.6KUS New Home Sales Plummet As COVID-19 Hits Housing Market
As COVID-19 started to impact the housing markets during a wind-down in mid-March, new home sales in the United States plummeted 15.4...
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2.7KNew York City Sees Lower Rents
The New York City real estate market, battered like other economic sectors by the coronavirus pandemic, is seeing lower rates than it...
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7.8KLooking 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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2.6KBadi 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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6.6KCustomer 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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2.7KZillow 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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5.4KUS 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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2.4KAirBnB 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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2.9KHomie 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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5.8KHome 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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2.6KCautious 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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3.5KLA’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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2.3KGermany’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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2.8KReal 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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3.7KReal 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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3.1KAirbnb 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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3.1KZillow 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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2.2KThe 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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5.8KWeWork 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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4.1KStudy: 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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2.9KZillow 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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2.7KMarriott 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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3.9KBeyond 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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2.2KNew 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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4.1KDigital’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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2.4KZillow 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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3.9KRedfin 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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4.8KMoney 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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7.3KAre 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...
