Opendoor expands rapid preapproval app to 3 new states

Once only available in California, the expansion will see the Opendoor Finance App available in Texas, Arizona and Georgia, promising consumers preapproval letters in 60 seconds or less. Continue reading

PNC Bank partners with Blend to digitize mortgage applications

“Strategic partnership” is a win for mortgage tech and title insurance provider Blend, which has cut its workforce by about 25 percent this year and racked up an accumulated $995 million deficit. Continue reading

The path to ownership is expanding. But so is the meaning of ‘ownership’

Real Estate 3.0 and its web3 components are by no means perfect, writes Pete Flint, founder of Trulia and a general partner at NFX. But it’s finally giving people a fair opportunity to invest. Continue reading

Real acquires lending arm of LemonBrew Technologies

Agents working under the banner of The Real Brokerage can now extend mortgage services to their clients as a result of the company’s acquisition of LemonBrew Lending. Continue reading

CoStar’s Homesnap and Broker Public Portal get a divorce

BPP will pivot to creating a national “superset” of listing data for MLSs to power their own listing sites and developing a “Fast Pass” for real estate innovation. Continue reading

Zillow launches ShowingTime+ in bid to win over real estate agents

The new brand will house all existing products and services from ShowingTime, Bridge Interactive, dotloop and Zillow’s Rich Media Experience team. Continue reading

Fello, a hybrid iBuyer, keeps sellers engaged and agents front and center: Tech Review

Fello layers a direct-to-seller cash offer model over agent-integrated services, which collectively rest on a sophisticated data modeling solution for home valuations. Continue reading

Stop overthinking it! 6 tools to create professional video with ease

Gone are the days of having to use busy, complicated professional-level technologies that require layering sound over visuals, dragging tiny arrows to cut milliseconds off of an opening or having to pay for high-end soundtracks. Here are the tools you … Continue reading