Compass acquiring third title company in less than a month

The fast-growing brokerage will pick up CommonGround Abstract, which serves Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The deal highlights Compass’ aggressive acquisition strategy. Continue reading

Clear Capital acquires floor plan app CubiCasa

CubiCasa’s mobile scanner provides real estate photographers, staging professionals, interior designers and contractors a solution for acquiring space dimensions and construction insight in under five minutes. Continue reading

Groundfloor’s new app Stairs lets real estate investors get in for $1

Investors can earn an annualized return of 4-6 percent on investments into a secure pool of funds using the Stairs app, 600 times more than the average savings account a traditional bank. Continue reading

Are 15-minute mortgage loan approvals the future?

United Wholesale Mortgage says it developed automated document recognition and processing capabilities in-house that allow for an initial mortgage loan approval in minutes. Continue reading

Elm Street Technologies buys OutboundEngine in 5th purchase in 2021

Greensboro, North Caronlina, real estate technology company Elm Street Technologies has acquired email marketing and advertising software provider OutboundEngine, based in Austin, Texas. Continue reading

Twitter applauds as Berlin votes to wrestle apartments from landlords

“All those in favor of expropriating every house that Zillow owns, say aye,” tweeted one American as Berlin’s vote to seize 240,000 apartments rippled across the globe. Continue reading

Ocrolus valued at $500M after raising $80M Series C round

The document automation platform is staffing up its machine learning and data science teams in the wake of a funding round led by Fin VC. Continue reading

Meet the former Amazon exec tasked with growing Redfin’s reach

Redfin Chief Growth Officer Christian Taubman shares how he balances leading Redfin’s product and marketing strategy and why keeping “the real world” in mind is key to creating tech and marketing that works. Continue reading

SparkOffer’s open-bid model helps listing agents market homes: Review

SparkOffer is an open-offer model for buying homes, run by the listing agent to help market sellers’ homes. It can especially benefit agents with unique luxury listings, investment properties, land and other real estate that doesn’t earn a lot of atten… Continue reading