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The Equity Unlock: A Homeowner’s Journey with HouseAmp
Unlock home equity fast with HouseAmp’s HomeSale Loan™—no HELOC hassle. Renovate, sell for more, and pay at closing.
The value of being a Realtor in an AI agent world
The next decade will belong to those who can combine the best of AI with the best of human skill.
Meet Ben Kinney and Chris Suarez of Place – new owners of Remine
Acquisitions often come with risk. Promises get made and broken. Products change hands and lose their soul. But this deal has a different feel.
MLS and Association Best Practices
Meet Ben Kinney and Chris Suarez of Place – new owners of Remine
Acquisitions often come with risk. Promises get made and broken. Products change hands and lose their soul. But this deal has a different feel.
OneKey MLS and Ocusell partner to deliver streamlined listing tools
Every agent wants a faster and better way to enter listings accurately and ways to maximize the engagement and marketability of their listings. Agents are busy and do not always take the time to be sure they have done everything to put the property’s best foot forward. In their haste to get the listing live, they sometimes makes mistakes which reduces the quality of the data for the MLS database.
WARDEX joins New Mexico in giving consumers what they love: Floor Plans
A second consumer-centric MLS has joined New Mexico MLS in requiring floor plans for all of their listings.
Real Estate Technology Trends
Meet Ben Kinney and Chris Suarez of Place – new owners of Remine
Acquisitions often come with risk. Promises get made and broken. Products change hands and lose their soul. But this deal has a different feel.
A New Report: Presale renovation is moving from niche to mainstay – and AI is leading the way
Most agents sat on the sidelines when virtual tours made their debut. Now, they are ubiquitous. Back in the mid to late 1990s, when virtual tours were primarily used for luxury listings, they felt clunky [...]
OneKey MLS and Ocusell partner to deliver streamlined listing tools
Every agent wants a faster and better way to enter listings accurately and ways to maximize the engagement and marketability of their listings. Agents are busy and do not always take the time to be sure they have done everything to put the property’s best foot forward. In their haste to get the listing live, they sometimes makes mistakes which reduces the quality of the data for the MLS database.
Strategic Planning and Research
NAR Report: Gen X leads in income, Millennials stay mobile, and Gen Z quietly arrives
The 2025 NAR Generational Trends Report from NAR just dropped, and it reads like a family portrait of America in transition. Baby Boomers are moving closer to grandkids, Gen Zers are scurrying to scrape together [...]
REAL AI: Real estate is an AI leader, What’s next, AI facts, headlines and AI quote of the week
By Kevin Hawkins with Korey Hawkins | Vol. 3 Issue 5 REAL AI is a human-created weekly roundup of all things related to artificial intelligence in real estate and emerging AI innovations in other sectors [...]
Simplifying Homeownership: WAV Group Unveils Survey Insights on Property Management Portals
At WAV Group, we were inspired to learn more about homeownership portals because of our own very real need to manage four personal properties. Managing properties in three distinct locations required us to keep track of preferred vendors for plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and other essential services. We also needed a way to memorialize vendors we used for repairs, painting, and landscaping. Additionally, we needed reminders for routine maintenance tasks. Managing one home is challenging enough, but managing four is even more complicated. Who remembers the last time they changed a furnace filter or cleaned out a dryer vent?