Pulse: What are the biggest mortgage challenges your clients face?

This week, we want to ask our readers about the common obstacles — complications, misunderstandings and mistakes — that clients often face as they navigate the mortgage process? How did you help overcome them? Continue reading

GoFundMe to pay off Harry and Meghan’s home scrubbed from internet

California resident Anastasia Hanson started the campaign to “help” the couple pay off their $14.65 million Montecito home after watching their interview with Oprah Winfrey. Continue reading

Bright MLS launches tool to measure home demand in real time

The “Bright T3 Home Demand Index,” created in partnership with T3 Sixty, is designed to give Bright MLS subscribers a sense of how the market is doing in real time. Continue reading

‘We’re never going back to normal’: Pete Flint on our digital future

To kick off Connect Now on Tuesday, Brad Inman and Trulia co-founder Pete Flint discussed the challenges and opportunities tied to the digitization of real estate. Continue reading

A sea change is coming to home financing

A slew of newer companies are trying to reinvent how home purchases are financed. That doesn’t mean the 30-year mortgage is disappearing, but it does hint at more choices for consumers of the future. Continue reading

Pulse: How our readers are educating clients about mortgage and alt finance

This week, our readers share how they’re educating their clients about one of the most important facets of the homebuying process — financing the biggest purchase of their lives. Continue reading

Matterport and rooomy advance relationship with immersive virtual staging

Matterport’s relationship with rooomy has advanced to providing virtually staged homes and in-app furniture purchases. Continue reading

Lone Wolf announces collaborative rollout of Digital Title services

Lone Wolf’s new product will directly link real estate agents with title companies to securely digitize deal data. Multiple software and title companies collaborated to develop the web-based solution. Continue reading

So you want to live in a tiny home? Here’s everything you need to know

We talked to experts about the legal, financial and social aspects of buying and moving into a home that’s under 500 square feet. Continue reading

Does Zillow’s app for online tours stack up?

Zillow’s app for creating and publishing immersive online home tours is available to everyone — and it offers enough to make it worth a look. Continue reading