Housing Wire

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The company announced that it has named Selim Freiha its chief financial officer, while Shrisha Radhakrishna assumes the title of chief technology and product officer. Radhakrishna is coming from LegalZoom, where he served for four years as chief technology officer and chief product officer. billion loss in 2022.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The essence of our industrys defense of modern MLS infrastructure rests upon a fragile foundation that says, “Its not perfect, but its the best we can do.” These domains arrived long before modern technology enabled efficiencies of scale. Technology still isn’t the NARs strong suit.

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Housing Wire

MAY 22, 2025

Rechat a real estate software company focused on artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools for brokerages and agents has named marketing and property technology veteran Audie Chamberlain as head of strategic growth and communications. Nothing else comes close.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Sheila Reddy, CEO at Mosaik, to talk about how the company is leveraging their experience building technology solutions for healthcare to benefit real estate agents and homebuyers. Sarah Wheeler: What differentiates Mosaik’s technology? Property search, for example.

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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 24, 2025

Matching listings appear on the client’s saved search channels, alongside MLS listings. Some agents call any non-MLS listings “ pocket listings.” Tim Quirk, Final Offer’s co-founder and chief strategy officer, said the new feature will help clients “test the market” before using an MLS.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 17, 2025

Q: How is Century 21 keeping the franchise model relevant amid all the technological disruption? But I think what people have to recognize about this business is that, because of the fragmentation, every market is a little bit different in the way that people close deals, and in the way that they search for deals. Absolutely.

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Housing Wire

MAY 9, 2025

CoStar Group is using Boost, its new Homes.com marketing feature, in an attempt to counter the bans by Zillow and Redfin on listings that are publicly marketed prior to being entered into the MLS. The boost on the listing will last until a sale closes. Agents can boost a listing for a one-time fee of $260.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Sellers can work with a local Opendoor partner agent to list their home on the MLS, while also having Opendoor’s cash offer as a backstop they can accept any time within 30 days. Technology should enhance operations without disrupting them, empowering people to do what they do best—build relationships and close deals.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 23, 2025

Modern AVMs leverage real-time MLS feeds, recent transaction data, property condition reports, and machine learning to produce faster, smarter, and more reliable results. In fact, AVMs are already playing a central role in servicing portfolios, securitizations, and post-close valuations. Regulators recognize this.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

HousingWire Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Jimmy Kelly, president and CEO of Lone Wolf Technologies , to discuss the company’s development process and his vision for a connected real estate platform. That is a lot of technology and a lot of wasted effort. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The third week of the Sitzer/Burnett commission lawsuit trial kicked off Monday with some final testimony from the defendants before making way for closing arguments from both parties. Davis also discussed the MLS and how the National Association of Realtors’ Clear Cooperation Rule impacts both buyers and sellers during her time on the stand.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

REsides , which bills itself as an online, “borderless” MLS announced Thursday that it’s partnering with startup proptech platform Rayse. It offers features such as buyer presentations, client portals and closing reports. Its a completely new way of thinking about real estate technology.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The acquisition and launch of PX comes amid a debate over the National Association of Realtors’ Clear Cooperation Policy , which requires Realtors to list a property on the MLS within 24 hours of marketing. The Massachusetts-based proptech firm has made several other acquisitions.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 27, 2023

According to his testimony, he has no involvement in NAR or local association boards, but he does encourage agents to get involved and be members of their local association to have access to their local MLS , which he called “the single-best marketplace created.” Closing arguments in the commission lawsuit trial are expected on Monday.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 12, 2021

” “The NAR and its MLS partners, which now include Zillow, are allowed to once again close off transparent access to home inventory by entering into agreements among themselves that disadvantage all but their own membership; consumers and competition will suffer,” read the lawsuit. Real Estate Tech Demo Hour.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 28, 2025

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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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

. “That allows us to deliver millions of leads for free to brokers and agents that use an MLS to list their rental vacancies,” he continued. If their MLS is a data-sharing partner of Apartments.com, brokers and agents can easily “opt-in” to have their rental listings shared automatically across the Apartments.com Network of sites.

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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. Utah-based Wasatch Front Regional MLS , which does business as UtahRealEstate.com , is also named as a defendant in the suit.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Multiple listing services (MLSs) have a wealth of data, and one technology company thinks it has found an innovative way to use it. Real estate data company StreetWire has partnered with Northern California MLS MetroList to produce an insurance product called Home Value Lock. The company provides an example of how the product works.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 14, 2025

Not every agent will be needed, but the ones who understand how to work alongside technology, rather than against it, are going to be the most valuable players in the ecosystem. Theyre deployed across the process, like tools that scrape MLS listings, public records, and private data sources to find undervalued or off-market properties.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

There were just 2,268 houses, per the Northwest MLS, down 241%. Based in Kirkland, Washington, the Northwest MLS compiles home listings, and tracks sales for 26 counties in Washington state, which also include mid-sized cities like state capital Olympia, the state’s islands, and rural, mountainous enclaves. At the end of this August?

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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

AUGUST 22, 2024

Is Ocusell replacing the need for Matrix, Paragon, or another legacy MLS interface? How prepared for these changes do you think MLSs are from a technology standpoint? What typically happens is that the MLS vendor is hard-coding those changes into the interface and it’s not reflected in the metadata.

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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. As a licensed brokerage , it operates in all 50 states, and its real estate database is powered mostly by MLS-listed homes in the U.S.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

Here are twelve mind-blowing ideas and prompts smart agents are using to close more deals with ChatGPT in 2025. It’s not perfect, but close. MLS 150–200 words, Zillow, Instagram caption, email blast blurb] Tone and style: [e.g., Sound familiar? Let’s start with the basics. 3 beds, 2 baths] Square footage: [e.g.,

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The housing industry has been working in overdrive over the last few years to shed the idea that its technology is antiquated and outdated. President, HomeLight Closing Services. Bright MLS. Chief Technology and Security Officer. CTO, Surefire – Origination Technologies. EVP, Chief Technology Officer.

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Real Estate News

JULY 10, 2025

Skip to Content Agents Brokerages MLS/Assn Tech Industry By the Numbers Consumer Illustration by Lanette Behiry/Real Estate News; Shutterstock Tech Hybrid ‘buyer agent’ blends AI with the human touch Newly launched brokerage WithJoy.AI aims to get buyers through most of a transaction with tech, providing a big commission rebate in return.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The rule requires brokers and agents to submit a property to an MLS within a day after sharing it with the public. He believes that sellers will benefit from having more exposure for a specific property via MLS-syndicated data. Despite the usefulness of technology and marketing , he mentions how personal real estate is.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 26, 2021

Under the agreement, the California Association of Realtors gained “access to a comprehensive suite of tools allowing them to create, manage, negotiate, and close offers on real property, all at no additional cost and integrated with their MLS platforms,” read the March release.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Through the development of improved and sophisticated systems, protocols and technology, these operations leaders are driving their companies to growth and success. In its 8th year, the HW Insiders program is spotlighting the talented operations professionals who are laying the foundation of success for their organizations.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

But a lot of what comes in isn’t going to be on the contract at closing or going through the disclosures. The second involves the home shopping process, as the platform keeps track of properties the buyer has toured by integrating MLS data. The third component is closing reports that show everything the agent did for the buyer.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Employees impacted by the first round of layoffs did not receive any form of severance payment, but they were offered resume coaching and were allowed to retain access to all company technology, according to the American Genius, which first reported the story. Shortly after the August layoffs, Austin-based REX closed their Series D funding.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Harvey typically charges sellers a few hundred dollars to list their property on the MLS and will charge a 0.25% commission when the home successfully sells. In 2023, Harvey, who is brokered by ListWithFreedom.com, recorded 2,692 transaction sides for a total of $826.462 million in sales volume, according to 2024 RealTrends Verified data.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 2, 2024

I felt that emerging data tools and technology paired with MLS and other agent-level data would allow us to help leverage that scarce time resource and make an hour of manager time 10 times as productive through data superpowers.” But culture, technology, support and other factors can be strong arguments to onboard more agents.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

When CoreLogic acquired Roostify, the digital mortgage technology company I co-founded and led for more than a decade, in February, our mission was to accelerate and simplify the home lending experience. Technology has brought greater transparency and predictability to the industry over the last 10 years.

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Housing Wire

JULY 26, 2024

The strategies include providing increased training sessions, marketing support, and technology tools to help agents navigate the market more effectively. The operational challenges include managing staff cuts and reduced capacity to close loans, which are impacting their ability to operate efficiently.

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