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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? Its proprietary AI technology can also remove furniture, declutter listing photos and create realistic renderings of landscaping and exterior renovations. In addition to virtual staging, Styldod offers AI image enhancement, Matterport virtual staging and commercial virtual staging.

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Predictive analytics for real estate: Best tools + guide

Housing Wire

While telepathy isnt an option, predictive analytics will get you pretty close. Agents can now spend time converting high-quality leads that are sure to turn into more closed deals instead of spending hours trying to identify potential sellers through expired MLS listings or door knocking. What does this mean for you?

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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. AVMs don’t account for commercial influence.

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Planet acquires Platinum Home Mortgage Corporation

Housing Wire

“In addition to agency and GSE home loans, Planet also has niche products tailored to today’s tight real estate markets, including self-funded One-Time Close (OTC) construction loans as well as manufactured housing and renovation mortgage loans,” Gross said in a statement.

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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.” Invitation Homes (IH) spent about $25,000 on renovations per home for its California SFR portfolio, pleadings in the lawsuit state.

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Opinion: Can tech and iBuyers fix the real estate market?

Housing Wire

commercial spaces/building and residential homes/townhomes) and inconsistent transactional processes, fragmentation in the market has prevented real-estate from adopting technology as quickly as other sectors – until now. While real estate is the largest asset class in the world, it’s a segment that is still highly fragmented.

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8 Types of Real Estate Investment

The Close

You will find run-down homes for a good deal, renovate them quickly, and then profit when you sell. It’s a profitable venture, but having some DIY skills for repairs and renovations is essential. A turnkey property is fully renovated and ready to rent out, requiring minimal effort from the owner.