Rental startup Piñata debuts new payments program

Piñata Pay lets tenants build credit and earn rewards, while also potentially streamlining the rent collection process for landlords. Continue reading

Will the second quarter of 2023 match real estate’s Q1 meltdown?

Major real estate companies began reporting Q2 earnings this week against a backdrop of high rates, low inventory and a sluggish economy. Analysts shared what they’re watching with Intel. Continue reading

How ‘computer vision’ is disrupting real estate, 1 listing photo at a time

As ChatGPT reimagines how agents write, computer vision extracts data from millions of images to tell deeper stories about home, Restb.ai Chief Product Officer Nathan Brannen tells Intel. 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

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

Do you Mynd? Invesco Real Estate invests $20M more in SFR platform

Mynd is a web application that assists investors with finding and managing single-family rentals (SFR) in and from any location within the U.S. It closed today on $20 million in financing to further its offerings, according to an announcement. Continue reading

InspectionGo takes off: Lands $5.5M funds, acquires 2 companies

InspectionGo (iGo) has closed on $5.5 million in Series A funding as well the joint acquisition of home services proptechs HomeBinder and Repair Pricer, according to a company announcement. Continue reading

Associations can be managed better, and AgentBook can help them do it: Tech Review

AgentBook is software that can help real estate associations modernize agent and broker member information, conduct board elections, promote events and handle finances. Continue reading

AppFolio exec: AI is about ‘activity elimination,’ not axing human jobs

Rather than being replaced by artificial intelligence, the real estate agent of the future will have fewer rote tasks to perform, Cat Allday, AppFolio’s vice president of AI and product operations, tells Intel. Continue reading

RentRedi’s latest offers increased document flexibility

“We aim to make landlords and their tenants’ lives easier by giving them everything they need, and nothing they don’t,” said RentRedi CEO and co-founder Ryan Barone. Continue reading