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Engel & Völkers launches new mega website for consumers, agents

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The site is specific to the Americas region and has a suite of agent tools including CRM tech, lead management, a business dashboard and more. Continue reading →

Owners of Frank Lloyd Wright home are trying to tear it down

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The new owners, Jean Jingnan Yang and Justin Jun Lu of Riverwoods, Illinois, bought the 106-year-old property for $550,000 on May 9. Continue reading →

Dr. Phil draws attention to agent’s 11-year-old unsolved murder

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The father of a murdered Canadian real estate agent went on Dr. Phil to ask the public for help finding the killers and solving the case. Continue reading →

Wells Fargo hires mortgage tech chief from JP Morgan

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Steve Hagerman will serve as Wells Fargo’s head of consumer lending technology and will be responsible for the bank’s new and emerging technology platforms. Continue reading →

Tornadoes tear through western Ohio, killing 1 and leveling homes

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Tornadoes and catastrophic weather tore through western Ohio late Monday into early Tuesday, striking the city of Dayton, Ohio, and killing at least one individual. Continue reading →

US home prices continued to grow in March — but sluggishly

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Home prices in the U.S. grew at a 3.7 percent annual rate in March, down from the previous month’s 3.9 percent, according to Case-Shiller. Continue reading →

‘Outside the box’: HomeSmart franchisee acquires Realty One Group brokerages

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A fact sheet explaining the new franchise arrangement, reviewed last week by Inman, states both the Realty One Group and the HomeSmart offices will continue operating independently of each other. Continue reading →

Nearly 1B mortgage docs accessible by First American security flaw

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Though the security breach had been fixed as of Friday, it previously let anyone who had a link to certain documents on First American’s website access additional electronic records simply by changing a single digit in the URL. Continue reading →

Airbnb will hand over data on 17K listings to New York City officials

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The data has to do with hosts and reservations on Airbnb’s platform and will be partially anonymized, Airbnb confirmed Friday. Continue reading →