Staircase’s ChatMTG promises to automate mortgage approval

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$14.75M sale marks DC region’s biggest of the new year

The 17.5-acre equestrian estate was listed for $17.995 million in May. The sales price also represents a new record for the town of Great Falls. Daniel Heider of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty represented the listing. Continue reading

Guild Mortgage set to acquire, rebrand Academy Mortgage

Upwards of 1,000 Academy Mortgage employees will make the transition to Guild, including more than 600 originators, Guild said in announcing the sixth acquisition in three years. Continue reading

Airbnb earned $10B last year, more than double pre-pandemic

The company earned $9.9 billion in total revenue for the year, nearly half of which was company profit. That is more than double the total revenue the company earned in 2019, before the pandemic upended travel. Continue reading

Zillow revenue rises in Q4 as Barton touts portal’s ‘household name’

Despite a slower market, Zillow saw revenue from its residential, rental and mortgage business rise in the fourth quarter of 2023, according to an earnings call Tuesday. Continue reading

Top Bay Area team boomerangs back to Compass from Side

Mollie Poe and Declan Hickey were founding members of Compass San Francisco before leaving in 2020. Now, they’re bringing four additional team members back to Compass with them. Continue reading

Anywhere Real Estate appoints new chief technology officer

Former Capital One executive Rudy Wolfs is Anywhere’s new chief technology officer. As CTO, Wolfs will lead the franchisor’s tech and product strategy, which includes recruiting more tech talent and streamlining the company’s suite of products for brok… Continue reading

Loans for commercial and multifamily buildings fell 25% in Q4

Loans for office buildings specifically dropped 68 percent year over year and 32 percent quarter over quarter.  Continue reading