Offerpad Moves to New Headquarters This week, real estate tech startup Offerpad threw a “welcome home” party in honor of the company’s move into its new Chandler, Ariz.-based headquarters. Offerpad moved its corporate hub from Gilbert to Phoenix’s East Valley in March. The new headquarters offers nearly 40,000 square feet — more than tripling the […]
Like Mother, Like Daughter The majority of real estate agents are female, and a good number of them are mothers. Hats off to these women, who strive to help their clients realize the American Dream. For Mother’s Day, we revisit one of our favorite mother-daughter teams. When she was growing up, Leesa Harper Rispoli had […]
NAR Offering Curriculum to Educate Agents About Military Relocations The Military Relocation Professional certification course will contain tips and resources how to serve military clientele. Do you know what PCSing* is? If you do, we salute you. If you don’t, you probably have little experience with the military, but that doesn’t mean you can’t help […]
Click Here, Buy Home: Redfin Makes Bid for Unrepresented Buyers At a meeting last year of Redfin brokers and its legal team, lawyers for the tech-powered brokerage added an agenda item. As CEO Glenn Kelman explained in a blog post, “an unusual number of unrepresented buyers were approaching Redfin’s listing agents, trying to make an […]
Zillow Announces Plans to Expand its iBuyer Program in Six New Markets Zillow announced plans to launch Zillow Offers in six markets — Austin, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Diego and Tampa — by early 2020.
‘Seriously Underwater’ U.S. Properties On the Rise ATTOM Data Solutions, property database curator, released its Q1 2019 U.S. Home Equity & Underwater Report, which shows that at the end of the first quarter of 2019, more than 5.2 million U.S. properties were “seriously underwater,” an increase of 17,000 properties from a year ago. ATTOM defines […]
Asian-Americans Forming Influential Homebuying Demographic Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) are the fastest-growing demographic in this country, with numbers exceeding 25 million by some projections. Yet, the group suffers from misrepresentation that leads to missed economic opportunities, according to the Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA).
Homesnap Announces 1 Million Milestone Homesnap, a provider of technology solutions to the real estate industry, has announced a milestone: One million agents across the country now have access to its platform, including the mobile productivity app Homesnap Pro. Homesnap partners with over 200 multiple listing services (MLSs) to provide Homesnap Pro as their mobile […]
Tech Roundup: Act Growth Suite Debuts, Tornado Data Now Out, BHHS Partners with Adwerx New Platform from Swiftpage Integrates Real Estate Sales and Marketing Swiftpage, the provider of Act, a leading cloud-enabled CRM and marketing automation platform aimed at helping real estate professionals and businesses grow, has announced the debut of Act Growth Suite, an […]
Facebook Rolls Out Marketing Tools for Small Businesses Coinciding with National Small Business Week, Facebook is announcing tools making it easier for entrepreneurs to manage and promote their businesses across its platforms, such as Automated Ads, appointments and new video editing tools.
