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

Housing Wire

Is virtual staging finally ready for its close-up? The days of AI-staged photos that look more like Salvador Dali paintings than comfy living rooms or HGTV-ready kitchens are long gone. The images todays virtual staging companies can create using AI are shockingly realistic and, dare we say it, stylish. We think it is.

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Compass’s recent performance points to the future of real estate brokerage

Housing Wire

By contrast, legacy brokerages did not perform nearly as well. Among publicly traded companies, Compass has done technology development and implementation better than most of its peers. And among privately held brokerages, the one executing most effectively on what Compass is proving in the public markets is SERHANT.

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Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman: ‘We do tech so you can do real estate’

Housing Wire

Dwiggins: Tell us a little bit about the acquisition of Virtual Staging AI and the strategy for that. Wacksman: It’s a great young company that has innovated a way to do virtual staging. Dwiggins: With this app, how do you balance between what the agents and the brokerage want with the sellers’ wants?

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At United Real Estate, the mission is always the focus. 2025 is no different

Housing Wire

Instead, they pay the brokerage a flat fee per transaction. Like many other brokerages , United will be focused on growth in 2025. As United looks to scale, Haase said the brokerage leans on its proprietary technology stack to efficiently add new agents and brokers. The need for this model is more apparent now than ever before.

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Real Brokerage Unveils Newest AI and Fintech Developments at RISE 2024

BAM Media

Real RISE 2024 kicks off today, October 22nd, with some exciting new developments in AI and fintech for real estate agents who’ve joined (or will join) the brokerage. Future Real Wallet integrations include: Rewards Points —enabling agents to earn promotional points redeemable for reduced brokerage and transaction fees.

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FDIC finds banks violated RESPA on mortgage brokerage payments

Housing Wire

In its March Supervisory Highlights, the FDIC stated that many institutions have developed policies and procedures to ensure sufficient mortgage broker services are provided in order to receive compensation , which was the first of a two-part test. Violations identified vary across different stages of the loan process.

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Why real estate professionals must return to old-school thinking in 2025

Housing Wire

Together, these obstacles are forcing agents and brokerages to hit the sidelines and plan against seemingly insurmountable odds like facing Brady and the Patriots in the Superbowl. To do so, develop strategies and programs that cater to buyers and sellers at every stage. It may not be easy, but nothing worthwhile is.