AI mortgage chatbot launches as ChatGPT comes under scrutiny

Beeline CEO Nick Liuzza is unfazed after the lender launched what it claims is the world’s first AI mortgage chatbot during the same week that the FTC hit ChatGPT creator OpenAI with an investigative demand. Continue reading

Back At You’s Design Studio aims to become ‘Canva of real estate’

Marketing software company Back At You is getting into the DIY content production game, releasing a new browser application to help the industry promote its brands, agents and properties, 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

Truework adds fraud protection to automated income verifications

Most borrowers who have granted their mortgage lenders permission to verify their income and employment won’t have to confirm the request a second time with their employer’s payroll provider. Continue reading

Entrata shores up tenant credit reporting with Rent Dynamics

Technology company Entrata, which builds an end-to-end business solution for the multifamily sector, has acquired industry colleague Rent Dynamics in an all-cash nine-figure deal, according to Entrata. Continue reading

EXCLUSIVE: The Agency’s new website design goes live

The first phase of the luxury brand’s new website design includes new video assets, imagery and informative pages that are adaptable by location, including new currency and property measurement options, the brokerage exclusively told Inman. Continue reading

Zillow’s super app is taking shape with the agent front and center

ShowingTime+, an offshoot of Zillow, has released Listing Showcase, a new way to market listings on the popular consumer search site. Continue reading

How early adopters in real estate learned to stop worrying & love AI

Less than a year after becoming publicly available, tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E have inspired brokers to explore — and integrate — artificial intelligence, a rigorous process of trial and error, they told Intel. 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

How Brad McCallum created a winning YouTube marketing plan

Find out how a well-crafted YouTube plan underscores the power of innovation in real estate marketing for both the individual agent and the service they provide. Continue reading