real estate

Rental Platform Avenue One Reaches $1 Billion Valuation
Rental Platform Avenue One Reaches $1 Billion Valuation
May 15, 2023  |  Real Estate

Property technology company Avenue One has reportedly achieved unicorn status after raising $100 million. The funding values Avenue One at $1 billion, Bloomberg News reported...

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9 in 10 Real Estate Firms Bet Big on Real-Time Payments
9 in 10 Real Estate Firms Bet Big on Real-Time Payments
May 12, 2023  |  Real-Time Payments

Real estate firms have historically run on paper — but that may be about to change. Real estate firms are weighing the benefits of adopting...

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EMTransfer Enables Real-Time Payments for Real Estate Transactions
EMTransfer Enables Real-Time Payments for Real Estate Transactions
May 09, 2023  |  Real-Time Payments

EMTransfer now enables real-time payments for real estate transactions over the RTP network. Delivered over The Clearing House’s RTP network through KeyBank’s application programming interfaces...

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Banks Unlikely to Loosen Credit Until 2024
Banks Unlikely to Loosen Credit Until 2024
May 08, 2023  |  Loans

Banks expect to continue tightening lending standards across all loan categories through the rest of 2023. That projection comes after a quarter in which banks...

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Potential Homebuyers May Be Chasing Dreams Longer as Market Reheats
Potential Homebuyers May Be Chasing Dreams Longer as Market Reheats
May 01, 2023  |  Real Estate

Homebuying is effectively impossible. That’s according to data from PYMNTS’ February “Consumer Inflation Sentiment Report,” which is backed up by the February S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller...

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Best Egg and AppFolio Enable Rent Payment in Installments
Best Egg and AppFolio Enable Rent Payment in Installments
April 27, 2023  |  Real Estate

Best Egg and AppFolio have partnered to enable rent to be paid in installments. Financial wellness platform Best Egg will be integrating its Flexible Rent...

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Opendoor Cuts More Staff and Leads FinTech IPO Index Down 0.7%
Opendoor Cuts More Staff and Leads FinTech IPO Index Down 0.7%
April 20, 2023  |  IPO

Earnings season has yet to fully engulf the FinTech IPO sector. But there was plenty of other news to go around — where macro headwinds...

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90% of Real Estate Firms Plan to Start Using Real-Time for Receivables Within the Next Year
90% of Real Estate Firms Plan to Start Using Real-Time for Receivables Within the Next...
April 19, 2023  |  Real Estate

Among payment methods that real estate firms expect real-time payments to replace, paper checks top the list. Standard ACH, debit cards and cash could be...

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Contractors May Move to Modernize as Manufacturing Boom Spurs Construction Demand
Contractors May Move to Modernize as Manufacturing Boom Spurs Construction Demand
April 14, 2023  |  B2B Payments

Government incentives are spurring nationwide industry investment as manufacturers race to find space to fulfill demand.  As first reported last week (April 8) by the Wall Street...

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