By integrating their services, real estate brokers, agents, and homeowners can now access seamless home improvement options with financing, helping to streamline the process of preparing homes for sale.
Higher interest rates, record low inventory, rising home prices, and investors snapping up the most affordable housing – it feels like all the market conditions are working against first-time buyers. Then comes the news that zavvie, teaming with Luminate Home Loans and its NEO Home Loans, has been helping hundreds of first-time buyers (and others) break the bad-news cycle. By giving more buyers the opportunity to buy a home with a cash offer, there is some really good news – especially for first-time buyers. As a former loan officer for 8 ½ years – and from my time at Fannie [...]
A second privately owned MLS has opted out of the NAR Anti-Trust Settlement stating that their rules were always more transparent than the standard NAR rules. A truly broker-centric, independent MLS, Resides.io MLS in Hilton Head, South Carolina is launching an inclusive concessions field and options for brokers to upload listing and buyers broker agreements. The organization is also building forms to make it easier for brokers to adapt to the new changes removing compensation as one of the center points of an MLS.
Since Homesnap was sunsetted, agents have missed the ability to seamlessly promote their listings directly from the MLS. Now with this new partnership between Corelogic and Collabra, users of MLS-Touch and Matrix will be able to promote their listings via digital advertising with one click right from inside two of their core tools. As days on market have started to increase and buyers are being more selective, the need to generate listing attention is ever greater. For Corelogic users, they will now have a seamless way to give their listings social media exposure without the cumbersome process of exporting their listing out of the MLS and into another system. Great addition to the Corelogic Alliance Network in my view.
A few excellent executives took on leadership positions at terrific companies this week.
HUNT continues its tradition of excellence, achieving this distinction for the fifth consecutive year.
Today, CoreLogic launched a vital and timely new security platform – Clareity Assure – now available to integrate as a front door to all MLS systems regardless of vendor. It is precisely the kind of protection MLSs need and must have in place. It uses artificial intelligence and machine learning for its adaptive authentication protection. It can identify suspicious activity and, most importantly, selectively deploy multi-factor authentication. By monitoring login activity in real time, it can automatically detect when login exceeds an acceptable risk threshold. Last year was a wakeup call for MLSs and security. The timing by CoreLogic could not [...]
He’s B-A-A-A-C-K! Saul Klein, a real estate technology visionary has stepped in to lead his local MLS in San Diego as its new CEO. Saul has helped drive adoption and engagement with real estate technologies for about 40 years starting the ePro technology training program, running one of the most well-trafficked MLS forums for years and has continued to contribute to MLS policy and programs throughout his career.
For almost a decade, we've been working with Ben Caballero, the No. 1-ranked real estate agent in the US since 2013 by RealTrends/HousingWire. If you haven't met Ben, he is one of the hardest-working people in real estate. He also possesses one of the sharpest, most innovative minds. It will come as no surprise to people who follow Ben that he did it again last week. No, Ben didn’t announce a new record-breaking sales record. He's done that multiple times as the first agent to eclipse $1 billion, then $2 billion (several times), and finally $3 billion in sales in [...]
Congrats to our friends Russ Cofano and Scott Feldman for coming together at Collabra Technology, Inc. Scott has just been hired as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer - a task he is well-equipped for! If you aren’t caught up with what Russ is up to these days, you definitely need to check out his new product called Ad-Builder, the Company’s MLS-integrated digital advertising solution. It's a completely integrated way for MLSs to enable agents to promote their listings with a click.
Congrats to One Key and Mid-Hudson for coming together to better serve real estate professionals in the Hudson Valley - we love to see logical blends of organizations like this that better serve brokers and agents with reduced cost and complexity, broader data transparency and increased marketing potential for listings. Great job!
I had the pleasure of delivering a keynote address at the InspectionGo conference a couple of month ago. The InspectionGo network is one of the most engaged, thoughtful and successful group of real estate entrepreneurs I have ever met. They are taking Home Inspection Services and Professionalism to a whole new level. I am thrilled for Celeste Starchild, one of our long-time colleagues and friends in real estate for her promotion to President. She brought her depth of understanding and career success from her days at REALTOR.com and Clariety Securing in the areas of product, sales and marketing at companies [...]
