Redfin Mortgage Closes First Fully-Digital Home Mortgage Redfin, the next-generation real estate brokerage, and Notarize, the first company to enable an entirely online mortgage closing process, are working together to let customers close a home purchase completely online. Online closings are now available to customers of Title Forward, Redfin’s title and settlement company, and Redfin […]
Millennial Buyers Real Estate Trends for 2019 Rising Interest Rates Prompting Buyers to RestrategizeIt’s no secret that interest rates have slowly, but surely, been inching upwards. A 5% interest will cause many buyers to pause and reevaluate their purchasing power and strategy. Even a quarter point has a real impact on housing affordability. Skepticism is […]
Canada’s Housing Woes Reminiscent of U.S. in 2008
Corelogic and Savvycard Provide Social Media Lead Generation Solution to CRMLS CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today announced a new agreement to provide SavvyCard®, a CoreLogic Alliance Network solution, to the subscribers of California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS). The nation’s largest MLS, CRMLS is a consortium […]
Lone Wolf and CREA Announce Major Transaction Management Deal Deal provides Lone Wolf’s transaction management tools to Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) as new CREA WEBForms®. The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) announced today a partnership with Lone Wolf Technologies (Lone Wolf) that will provide CREA members with a new version of CREA WEBForms® that […]
Student Debt Reduces Buyers’ Budgets by Nearly $100,000 About a third of renters who plan to buy a home in the next year are carrying student debt. The average monthly student debt payment for renters who are planning to buy a home in the next 12 months is $388. The highest priced home a renter […]
CENTURY 21 Gavish Real Estate Acquires CENTURY 21 JR Realty LAS VEGAS, November 15, 2018 (Newswire.com) – CENTURY 21 Gavish Real Estate, announced yesterday, the acquisition of CENTURY 21 JR Realty as part of a strategic initiative to expand the CENTURY 21 Gavish Real Estate presence in Las Vegas, NV. Longtime resident and Broker, Rosa […]
Adam Contos, chief executive officer at RE/MAX Holdings, Inc., talks with REAL Trends editor-in-chief, Tracey Velt about past challenges and experiences that shaped him to become the industry leader he is today. Also, Adam shares what excites him about the future of real estate, his ‘Aha’ leadership moment and how RE/MAX, the original disruptor, can […]
PropertyGuys.com Expands Into the United States Leading Canadian real estate disruptor awards statewide Master Franchise Agreement to Florida investment group. PropertyGuys.com, Canada’s premier private sale marketing group, is pleased to announce that it has officially awarded a Master Franchise Licence for its proprietary real estate platform within the state of Florida. The company, now the […]
NestApple Takes Aim at Realtors’ Commissions By Offering Rebates As a New York-based banker, George Benoliel has witnessed much disruption. When online banking competitors started taking on brick-and-mortar institutions, bank fees fell. Now, Benoliel is hoping to disrupt the residential brokerage industry. It started when Benoliel and his wife, a lawyer in the nonprofit sector, […]
