Introducing Cash Close by HomeLight: The product every home seller needs

While the past decade in real estate has seen technology innovation around the initial steps in the real estate journey, — such as finding an agent you can trust or having access to thousands of property listings at your fingertips — the mechanics of t… Continue reading

Chat-based escrow coordination tool poised to change how deals get done

PrecloseGO is a sleek, super-simple way for transaction coordinators to manage the escrow process, interact with buyers and sellers, and take the deal to the finish line. Continue reading

Lone Wolf launches new data insights platform

The platform aims to crunch back-office data — such as company profitability, gross commission income and other year-over-year trends — to create visualizations, forecasts and other insights in a more plain language for brokers.
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Endpoint gets feedback from the most important person: the consumer

Allen Hsu has purchased three homes, so he knows from experience that there is a lot that goes into the closing process. Closings involve multiple decision-makers, duplicate requests for information, and processes that are often unfamiliar to consumers. Continue reading

30 million reasons to rethink the real estate closing

For decades, real estate lagged behind other industries in technological innovation. But now the industry is making up for lost time. The first wave of technology adoption helped drive consumers’ use of the internet during the home search process to ​m… Continue reading

Top-producing Ohio brokerage hires ShelterZoom for transaction management

ShelterZoom is now the transaction management software solution for Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Professional Realty in Mason, Ohio. Continue reading

Zipi and SkySlope cooperate to build business app

Zipi’s API helps power SkyZip, an application built from Zipi’s real estate accounting systems and SkySlope’s transaction platform. Continue reading

In 2020, what can real estate learn from the hotel industry?

It’s hard to believe that another decade has come and gone. Y2K is two decades in the rearview mirror, the Great Recession is now ten years past. We have been witness to the recovery of the housing market; the growth of low-fee model brokerages; the em… Continue reading

Big Purple Dot is on target, but misses the bull’s-eye

Part relationship manager, part business management solution, its features, including lead auditing, a mobile CRM and robust tagging, stand out in an otherwise typical solution for larger brokers and teams. Continue reading

Are brokers wasting money on tech for their agents?

If “we provide the tech” is such a rallying cry for recruitment, why don’t more agents jump on board when it’s available? Some agents won’t use technology no matter what you do. Here are a few reasons agents can be so tech-resistant.
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