Co-living startup Venn raises $40M to ‘reinvent urban neighborhoods’

Co-living startup Venn announced Tuesday it raised $40 million in its first round of funding. The Tel Aviv, Israel-founded company operates aims to take on giants in the space like WeLive by supporting entire neighborhoods, from managing homes to suppo… Continue reading

Is Compass a tech company or a traditional brokerage?

The company often refers to itself as a tech company and a tech-enabled brokerage, which is part of the lure of the Compass vision — and the underpinning of its massive $4.4 billion valuation. But is Compass a tech company or a traditional brokerage? F… Continue reading

RE/MAX tech platform moves ahead. Paid version next?

RE/MAX’s end-to-end real estate platform centered around a new customer relationship management tool (CRM) is entering its beta phase imminently, with the first pieces of it set to trickle out to agents this summer. Continue reading

WATCH: The tech trends that’ll define 2019

Seventy-eight percent of U.S. internet consumers have said that a brand that provides them with personalized content will have a much greater chance at winning their business. This is just one of the facts that eXp Realty’s Scott Petronis and CoreLogic… Continue reading

Tech, teams and the total cost of competing

On the heels of Inman Connect, I’ve never been more certain that big money is not the solution to simplifying the real estate ecosystem and improving the customer journey. The hostility between industry leaders is escalating. Continue reading

This one barrier is keeping us from innovating

Brokers and MLSs don’t speak the same lanugage. In this article, Sam DeBord decodes the translucent industry lingo surrounding MLS consolidation. Continue reading