‘A natural progression’: Pinnacle goes West with 1st California team

Pinnacle Realty Advisors, the brokerage-as-a-service company, has opened operations in California choosing the Bay Area as a base for its initial team, according to an announcement. Continue reading

Top producers benefit with new Adwerx Top Performer Package

Adwerx is a digital advertising solution for the real estate industry which recently released a program for top producers, according to a statement. Continue reading

Home prices rose in May in defiance of down housing market

Prices rose 0.7 percent from April to May after adjusting for increases typically experienced in spring, according to estimates released Tuesday by CoreLogic and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Continue reading

RentSpree adds 50,000-member OneKey MLS in latest partnership

OneKey, New York State’s largest multiple listing service, will now offer the software company’s ApplyLink tool to members throughout Long Island, New York City and the Hudson Valley region. Continue reading

Far Homes new financing tool helps Mexico seem much closer

The marketplace for properties south of the border will now offer the value of linking aspiring owners with the people and processes involved with financing homes in the very popular U.S. second-home destination, the company said. Continue reading

Technology platform Inspectify finds $5.76M in new funding

The company provides an automated solution for booking and conducting home and property inspections, using dynamic, smart interfaces that can greatly reduce time spent at homes, data integrity and improve downstream workflows. Continue reading

Americans are moving into flood-prone cities at alarming rate: Data

Migration into flood- and wildfire-prone counties has more than doubled since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to a Redfin analysis of domestic migration data released Monday. Continue reading

Compass nabs ‘star’ New York City agent and team from SERHANT.

Maggie Wu is the latest of many agents to “boomerang” back to Compass after briefly leaving for another company. She leads the 4-person W Team which closed $102 million in sales last year. Continue reading

Redfin CEO: Adjustable-rate loans may push sellers off the sidelines

In an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman laid out some of the variables that might begin to unlock home inventory in the years to come, including adjustable rate resets. Continue reading