Real estate technology company AppFolio has introduced new artificial intelligence (AI)-focused upgrades to its platform. The updates, announced Tuesday (Sept. 29) at the company’s annual FUTURE conference, are centered around AppFolio Realm-X and the AppFolio Performance Platform. “The Performance Platform already holds each customer’s permissions, policies, workflows,...
Second quarter results from Home Depot and Lowe’s offer perhaps the clearest evidence yet of how a prolonged period of elevated mortgage rates is changing where money flows inside the roughly $1 trillion U.S. home-improvement economy. Homeowners who are reluctant to move are also reluctant...
Real estate market intelligence platform ApartmentIQ has raised $25 million in new funding. The company announced the funding from Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) Tuesday (Aug. 11) along with the news that its platform has surpassed 8 million units. “The next generation of multifamily intelligence platforms...
An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered homeownership platform co-founded by Martha Stewart launched in the United States Wednesday (July 29). Hint, whose co-founders also include Yih-Han Ma and Kyle Rush, is now available on Apple’s App Store, the company said in a Wednesday (July 29) press release. The home intelligence platform builds a profile of...
May 22, 2026
A mortgage application used to mean waiting. At TD Bank, pre-adjudication averaged roughly 15 hours before a human underwriter could open the file. That window is now under three minutes. TD Bank Group launched its first agentic artificial intelligence (AI) model to close that gap. The system classifies borrower documents, extracts and validates financial data, […]
September 30, 2025
User choice is the dominant behavior when it comes to retail payments. For much of cryptocurrency’s history, users haven’t chosen it at checkout. However, that could be changing, at least...
September 15, 2025
For many property managers, inefficiencies lurk not in the halls of apartment buildings but in the filing cabinets and spreadsheets of the back office. The paperwork and manual reconciliations required...
August 20, 2025
A payments shift is underway in the property management sector, one that is less about rent collection and more about modernizing the often-overlooked area of non-payroll expenses, from urgent repairs...
October 05, 2026
Valon Technologies raised $150 million in a Series D funding round to accelerate the deployment of its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for mortgage servicing, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 5) press release. The round doubled Valon’s valuation to $2.3 billion, according to the release. The company’s previous round was an October 2024 Series C in […]
September 29, 2026
Real estate technology company AppFolio has introduced new artificial intelligence (AI)-focused upgrades to its platform. The updates, announced Tuesday (Sept. 29) at the company’s annual FUTURE conference, are centered around AppFolio Realm-X...
August 12, 2026
Real estate market intelligence platform ApartmentIQ has raised $25 million in new funding. The company announced the funding from Susquehanna Growth Equity (SGE) Tuesday (Aug. 11) along with the news...
July 29, 2026
An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered homeownership platform co-founded by Martha Stewart launched in the United States Wednesday (July 29). Hint, whose co-founders also include Yih-Han Ma and Kyle Rush, is now available on Apple’s App Store,...
