RentSpree’s ApplyLink deployed by Austin Board of Realtors

Software company RentSpree continues making headway into its multiple listing service partnership strategy with its latest union: Austin Board of Realtors and its 20,000+ member MLS, the Austin/Central Texas Realty Information Service (ACTRIS). Continue reading

Restb.ai releases new option for automated property descriptions

Property Descriptions by Restb.ai leverages three types of AI to create narratives using a number of tonal approaches, including, descriptive, playful, standard, professional and simple — in 50 languages Continue reading

Fifth Wall leads $9M Series B for Vero’s ‘new generation of leasing’

Vero, a RentTech company offering a platform for landlords and tenants, closed on a series B round of funding worth $9 million led by Fifth Wall, according to an announcement shared exclusively with Inman. Continue reading

Zillow unveils affordability tool that prioritizes buyers’ monthly budget

Announced on Monday, the new filter enables users to search for homes within a range of monthly mortgage payment prices that fit their budget, instead of just listing prices. Continue reading

Great for the growing agent, Trackxi fills niche within transaction management: Tech Review

Trackxi is an app for managing all the little things that hamper deal progress between signature and closing. It’s not a clinical transaction manager, more of an activity management solution, and it’s very good at it. Continue reading

10 proptech entrepreneurs get real with real estate’s decision-makers

From Rentspree to Better, Intel asked 10 property technology entrepreneurs tough questions on the minds of their colleagues and customers, many of them large, national brokerage brands. Continue reading

Mike DelPrete on the perils of hurting for cash in a down market

Big brokerages and emerging disruptors alike dipped into savings as revenues declined late last year. Industry analyst Mike DelPrete spoke exclusively to Intel about the options at their disposal. Continue reading

Fredrik Eklund’s REAL Messenger to go public via Nova Vision SPAC

The transaction will have a pre-money enterprise value of approximate $150 million at closing, according to an announcement Tuesday. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2023. Continue reading

Read Inman’s exclusive Roadmap to Real Estate’s Future

Brad Inman writes a letter to the real estate industry, published here in full, alongside the publication of Inman’s Roadmap to Real Estate’s Future that grew out of three days of conversations and insight at Disconnect 2023. Continue reading

Real estate braces for year of mass consolidation as startups eye exit

A contracting market will place pressure on struggling startup entrepreneurs while some broker-owners use the down market as an opportunity to nail down a succession plan, analysts told Intel. Continue reading