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Zillow has been buying homes for a year now. How’s it going?

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It’s been a year since Zillow’s ambitious undertaking to buy and sell homes to consumers with quick-close, all-cash offers under the “iBuying” model. Continue reading →

iBuyers riding a wave of change as they disrupt real estate

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The iBuyers are going to improve their algorithms. They’re going to push their prices closer to market rates. And they’re going to get better and better as they eat up more of the real estate industry. Continue reading →

Attention, agents: Opendoor launches new referrals program

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Opendoor introduced on Tuesday a new program to refer clients outside of the company’s buy parameters to partner real estate agents.  Continue reading →

Why iBuying is the new Zestimate

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Between Zillow’s powerful grasp over the start of the consumer homebuying journey and the relative ease of instant online offers, it’s no question that the listing powerhouse can dominate this new frontier of buying and selling. Continue reading →

Perch pulls in $220M in latest funding round

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New York City-based iBuyer Perch announced on Tuesday the completion of a $220 million Series B funding round with $20 million in equity funding and $200 million in debt financing. Continue reading →

PREVIEW: New massive iBuyer report from Mike DelPrete

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Mike DelPrete, a real estate tech advisor and strategist, has a new comprehensive iBuyer report out to help educate the real estate industry about the growing presence of the quick-close, all-cash investor-backed buyer that’s begun to percolate in mark… Continue reading →

Zillow will lend consumers money to buy homes

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In a statement, Zillow framed the new program as a way to beef up its online homebuying and re-selling program Zillow Offers (in which the company makes all-cash offers on homes to homeowners and prospective sellers) Continue reading →

Here’s why this broker started his own iBuyer

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Lamacchia Development, a sister company to the Massachusetts-based Lamacchia Realty, closed on its first home through the company’s iBuyer program, Offer Now. Continue reading →

60%: the number of sales iBuyers will take in 2024

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Americans might start moving more if they can buy and sell houses the way they can buy and sell cars: quickly and over the internet, with easy financing available. This is the future of real estate — a future where iBuyers will take 60 percent of sales… Continue reading →