Housing Wire

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Real Brokerage isn’t tapping the brakes on its rapid expansion. The ballooning agent count pushed brokerage revenue to $340 million, an 84% year-over-year improvement. Its title revenue more than doubled year over year to $1.3 The call included updates on the company’s new divisions and technology offerings.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 16, 2021

Real estate technology company Lone Wolf Technologies announced its launch of Digital Title Orders, a digital title solution allowing agents to select their preferred title provider and submit orders directly within a transaction. The post Lone Wolf launches digital title solution appeared first on HousingWire.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Now in its 6th year, the Tech100 Real Estate program provides a trusted resource for real estate professionals, showcasing the industrys top technology providers. These companies are solving real-world challenges, delivering cutting-edge solutions, and helping real estate professionals navigate an evolving market.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Hanna Family of Companies , the parent company of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services , announced the merger of Erie Title Agency, Inc and Barristers of Ohio to form Erie Title Barristers Group on Wednesday. The Cleveland-based Erie Title has been serving clients in Ohio since 1998.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 3, 2025

This years honorees represent the top talent in corporate finance, ensuring their companies remain competitive in a dynamic housing market. Take a look at the full list of this year’s honorees below.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

added mortgage lending under its umbrella by acquiring mortgage brokerage company Be My Neighbor on Monday. Publicly traded real estate software firm reAlpha Tech Corp. reAlpha agreed to pay Be My Neighbor an aggregate purchase price of up to $6 million. This consists of $1.5 million in cash paid on the closing date, $1.5

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Housing Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

In fact, there aren’t many mortgage lenders, builders or real estate brokerages that haven’t at least fleetingly entertained the notion. A significant opportunity To be sure, there are title agencies eager to partner with CRE principals and funds. Instead, they’re leaving money on the table. CREs need not go it alone.

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Housing Wire

JULY 5, 2024

Like many in title , Iain Bryant, the newly appointed president of Stewart Title’s agency division, found his way into the industry through family. Services , a title production business, in 1990, and after growing up surrounded by the title industry, Bryant said he was determined to never be part of the industry. “My

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 29, 2021

One of our big goals at Blueprint Title is to shrink the title insurance business from an $18 billion business to a $10 billion business,” Berneman, the company co-founder and CEO. “We share of the market controlled by small, independent title insurance companies. ow and ease of the entire closing process.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

billion deal comes just weeks after the Detroit-based lender announced its acquisition of real estate brokerage Redfin for $1.75 There’s the origination process, which is all of the financing, title closing, and then servicing, where they essentially develop a lifetime relationship. That’s going to require technology.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 26, 2021

Judd Hoffman has been hired as chief executive officer for Proper Title LLC , an Illinois-based title insurance agency that’s backed by top independent real estate brokerage @properties. There, he oversaw States Title use of predictive analytics and technology on its title and escrow platform.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These partnerships can take various forms including partnerships with mortgage brokers , title companies , property management firms, insurance providers, contractors, lenders , or technology vendors. Technology and automation Technology is vital for streamlining processes, managing leads, and communicating with clients.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 10, 2025

Monday’s breaking news that Rocket Companies is set to acquire online real estate brokerage Redfin shed light on the changing landscape of the homebuying marketplace. When you look at Redfin as a data and technology company, you realize that this is an incredibly undervalued company.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A partnership between Realogy Title Group and Notarize that has sought to accelerate the adoption of remote online notarizations hit a milestone in the first half of 2020. Roughly 400 closing and escrow agents use Notarize’s technology through RTG to close digitally; agents in the remaining 13 states use hybrid options.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2025

Four top companies Compass , Anywhere Advisors , eXp Realty and HomeServices of America continue to outperform their competitors, but The Real Brokerage is nipping at their heels, according to the 2025 RealTrend Verified Brokerage Rankings. 2024 was a year of disruption for the housing market.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2025

Fathom Realty rolled out two new agent commission plans in 2024, and the brokerage isnt done yet. To back the new plan, Fregenal cited a survey showing that almost 90% of agents want more from their parent brokerages, but he offered no details on whats to come. The plan is designed to help agents close more business.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 27, 2024

With its supercharged growth over the past two years, it is no surprise that The Real Brokerage topped the 2024 RealTrends 500 Top Movers list for both transaction side count and sales volume. But for Real, which runs a virtual brokerage model with revenue sharing for its agents, the goal is to get better, not necessarily bigger.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Publicly traded real estate firm The Real Brokerage has struck an agreement to acquire the mortgage brokerage arm of real estate and mortgage technology company LemonBrew. The Real Brokerage, headquartered in Ontario, Canada, will pay $1.25 “We are excited to be joining forces with The Real Brokerage.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2021

But while Blefari has a clearly defined personality, the residential real estate brokerage he runs doesn’t. The post Warren Buffett’s boring, dominant resi brokerage appeared first on HousingWire. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices of America is not just a boring mouthful of a name, but it is a confusingly layered operation.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Third-quarter earnings season kicked off with a bang last week with three ( Stewart, First American and Old Republic ) out of the Big Four title insurers reporting their earnings on Thursday. The firm’s title segment reported an operating revenue of $647.9 At Stewart , Q3 revenue came in at $716.4 million, down from $836.7

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2025

Still, the brokerage still has some buyers who want to regularly engage with the firms human agents, while others almost exclusively engage with the AI. Homa Another new entry into the space, Homa is not a real estate brokerage like Modern Realty or reAlpha.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 1, 2025

Were proud to introduce this years honoreesrising leaders who are redefining whats possible in housing. Take a look below at the full list of this year’s 100 honorees.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 5, 2023

Be it new experimental technology, legislation or regulation to respond to, disruptive proptech models, shifting market dynamics and so on,” said Price. We see this benefiting Endpoint as well as proptech companies who are looking to build their own title companies. HW: You’ve had a 20-year career as a title and escrow pro.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

Fathom Holdings , the parent company of cloud-based real estate brokerage Fathom Realty , appointed Jon Gwin as chief operating officer. A licensed real estate broker since 2006, he managed a brokerage in San Diego and he also played a crucial role in establishing some of the first compliance management systems in the mortgage industry.

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Housing Wire

MAY 11, 2021

Real estate software company Lone Wolf Technologies announced Monday the acquisition of two real estate technology companies, LionDesk and Homespotter. “We’re bringing the best technology together to dramatically simplify the work that agents and brokers do every day, but this is more than just connecting the dots.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

One potential stream that quickly comes to mind is the potential of capturing title and closing business. For the most part, many brokerages and real estate agents on the buyer’s side of the transaction have continued on with a “business as usual” approach until we have certainty as to the true impact.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

Mike’s passion for leveraging technology to facilitate online property auctions makes him a perfect fit for Xome,” the company said in the post. It boasts its own in-house digital transaction management platform, a network of agents, in-house title and mortgage services, as well as a 24/7 “concierge” service.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 9, 2023

Fast-growing The Real Brokerage posted a $3.97 Like many other brokerages , the firm is still in the red (it lost over $20 million last year). The brokerage now operates in 47 states in the U.S. The virtual brokerage in March disclosed that it is raising fees on agents. million loss year over year. compared to 8.3%

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Housing Wire

JULY 18, 2022

The mortgage and real estate industries are quickly adapting to technological advances in order to keep up with consumer demands and the changing markets. It encompasses brokerage, mortgage, title, insurance and technology companies like Real Results, Verus Title and Encompass Lending. Register here.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 20, 2025

billion deal to acquire resi brokerage and portal Redfin in Q2 or Q3 2025. “There’s still going to be deals out on the streets for these guys, but I do think they will continue to integrate their technology into, ‘Push button, Get home,” Hale said. Rocket Companies hopes to close a $1.75 billion deal for Redfin.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Real estate brokerage and services company Anywhere Real Estate announced last week that it is appointing Tony Kueh as its first chief product officer. In his new role, Kueh will lead the company’s product strategy, innovation roadmap and technology investments. billion, but the company has remained profitable.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 5, 2020

eXp said it expects to continue to add agents, saying its cloud-based remote model is appealing to agents and independent brokerages, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. eXp acquired Showcase IDX in July, bringing a technology company focused on agent website and consumer real estate portal technology to the company.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 22, 2024

In a lawsuit filed Thursday, real estate startup Homie Technologies claims that home seller consumers were not the only ones harmed by the real estate industry’s allegedly anticompetitive practices. For example, of the top 10 brokerages by closed sides in 2013, only three remain in the top 10 in 2023.

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Housing Wire

JULY 22, 2021

Former CoreLogic executive Rouz Tabaddor has been named vice president and chief intellectual property officer at title insurance provider First American Financial Corp. — Georgetown Title has been in Texas for more than 125 years, First American said in a statement following the acquisition. The company announced a healthy $7.1

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Housing Wire

APRIL 13, 2021

“SentriLock delivers zinger to Zillow with new showing service,” was the email subject head SentriLock sent about its new tool, titled SentriKey Showing Service. But, ironically, the emerging NAR-Zillow proxy battle comes three months after Zillow announced it is an NAR-member real estate brokerage.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Many of them are determined to make an impact in industries that have yet to be significantly modernized by technology. A quick look at the history of real estate technology will tell you that almost everything up and down the transaction chain has been targeted for innovation. Handling a property title? Very regulated.

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Housing Wire

JULY 12, 2022

Volatile mortgage rates and economic uncertainty have rocked the housing market this year, challenging mortgage lenders, real estate agents, title companies and appraisal firms to adapt quickly to changing conditions. After just one year from its launch in 2020, the brokerage became the most followed real estate brand in the world.

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