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Virtual staging: The best apps for 2025 + mind-blowing AI picks

Housing Wire

Its proprietary AI technology can also remove furniture, declutter listing photos and create realistic renderings of landscaping and exterior renovations. Is virtual staging finally ready for its close-up? We think it is. The images todays virtual staging companies can create using AI are shockingly realistic and, dare we say it, stylish.

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Predictive analytics for real estate: Best tools + guide

Housing Wire

Smart Data: Over 1 billion data points on residential and commercial real estate. Plus, well take a look at the benefits and best practices to give you a better understanding of how real estate predictive analytics impact your business and how to use them to your advantage. What does this mean for you?

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Leading Australian reverse mortgage lender undergoes rebrand

Housing Wire

We are excited to deliver the Heartland Bank brand to our reverse mortgage customers,” said Medina Cicak, the bank’s newly appointed chief commercial officer. More than half of the company’s reverse mortgage customers (55%) are using their loan proceeds to fund home renovations or to consolidate debt (51%).

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What AVMs can and can’t do in the appraisal process

Housing Wire

Sometimes there are adverse site conditions for properties, such as busy streets, flood zones, commercial influence, etc. AVMs do not account for upgrades or renovations. Sometimes properties have increased in value due to recent upgrades or renovations. ” Amazing, right? AVMs don’t account for housing trends.

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Bain Capital gains majority stake in residential investment lender Archwest Capital

Housing Wire

We are pleased to partner with Shawn and the Archwest team to deliver dynamic financing solutions to home builders , renovators and landlords who are expanding and improving the critically undersupplied U.S. Archwest provides business-purpose financing for single-family and multifamily homes, as well as mixed-use and commercial properties.

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Property services company MCS enters reverse mortgage space

Housing Wire

It also says that Five Brothers will be integrated into MCS to offer property preservation, maintenance and renovation services. has been in business for more than 50 years and offers regulatory compliant default, rental and real estate-owned (REO) residential and commercial property preservation services.

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Institutional SFR players are stuck in the doldrums

Housing Wire

The lawsuit claims further that the company “ignored permitting laws to avoid fees and increased taxes as well as to get renovated homes on the rental market as soon as possible.” Another larger player in the space, Progress Residential , recently postponed a securitization transaction due to difficult market conditions.