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‘Power buyer’ UpEquity raises $50M in series B funding round

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Austin-based lender says its technology enables homebuyers to make all-cash offers and close a mortgage in 18 days on average. Continue reading →

Pacaso now accepting cryptocurrency for luxury home shares

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Luxury home investment platform Pacaso announced it will now allow its investors to use multiple forms of cryptocurrency. Property investors can partition their investment as well, using a digital currency as a down payment and traditional financing fo… Continue reading →

3 moments that made Side CEO Guy Gal

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Guy Gal’s billion-dollar company has its origins in its co-founder’s own experiences — both good and bad — buying real estate. Continue reading →

Realogy sells most of its interest in Title Resources Guaranty

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Realogy will continue to maintain its existing ownership of Realogy Title Group, which last year provided title, settlement, and escrow services for 214,000 transactions in 43 states under 45 different brand names. Continue reading →

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

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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 →

Tomo’s CEO on the mortgage industry: ‘It’s like going to the DMV’

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During a conversation with Brad Inman at Connect Now, Greg Schwartz said “mortgage is the catastrophe of the real estate transaction,” and shared how Tomo is changing that Continue reading →

Tomo’s CEO on the mortgage industry: ‘It’s like going to the DMV’

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During a conversation with Brad Inman at Connect Now, Greg Schwartz said “mortgage is the catastrophe of the real estate transaction,” and shared how Tomo is changing that Continue reading →

Halo’s rent-to-own model gets $450M boost

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Halo, a company that provides renters a pathway to ownership, announced in a press release it has raised $450 million to broaden its national reach. Continue reading →

Blockchain-backed Blimp raises $200K to reinvent the real estate deal

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Blimp, a real estate industry business software that provides cryptocurrency in exchange of transaction data, announced in a press release that it has secured its first $200,000 from investment company Dispersion. The funding is part an effort to raise… Continue reading →

New, deeper mortgage relationships boost Blend’s Q2 revenue

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The San Francisco-based cloud banking software developer reported second quarter revenue of $32.1 million, up 46 percent from a year ago. Continue reading →