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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

MAY 30, 2024

Ironically, the technology he’s developed can be a benefit to real estate agents as well. BR: I’m not a tech person, but when I had my large mortgage company that I grew from 1999 to 2007, we had built technology that we ran the company on, so I was very familiar with that process of hiring developers. How do you look at that?

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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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Housing Wire

MAY 31, 2022

The variety of modern digital solutions offered by the homegenius family of companies helps add a level of quality and efficiency to nearly every point in the home buying and selling process, all the way from search to close and beyond. That’s not where the technology innovations at homegenius end either.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 30, 2024

Sitzer’s legal action not only resulted in financial settlements, but also business practice changes that went into effect earlier this month , the most notable of which are the removal of buyer broker compensation from the MLS and mandatory buyer broker agreements.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 31, 2022

So much has evolved in the real estate process – agents and brokers no longer flip through the pages of MLS books, thumb through a Rolodex or fill out carbon copy contracts with their clients. geniusprice technology is not a CMA. For more information on geniusprice technology, please visit homegenius.com.

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Housing Wire

JULY 8, 2024

Real estate technology provider Lone Wolf announced the official launch of its new platform Lone Wolf Foundation on Monday. Additionally, Lone Wolf is also introducing three new solutions to its technology offerings, including Lone Wolf Back Office, Lone Wolf Transact and Lone Wolf Front Office.

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Inman

JUNE 25, 2024

Software company RentSpree closed on its sixth Lone Star State MLS partnership by inking a deal with SABOR, the San Antonio Board of Realtors.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 28, 2021

“We are looking forward to becoming part of a larger organization that can help us leverage the technology investments required in the title industry, not only today, but looking toward the future,” Tillman said. “This implementation and focus on technology will only improve our customer service and help us grow more effectively.”

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

HousingWire: What role has the increase in technology played for both businesses and consumers in the real estate space? Vance Loiselle: In the 20th century, the primary technology innovations in real estate were the telephone and the MLS. The post-close nurturing process is woefully lacking and can be digitized.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2022

From drive-through closings to drone-guided inspections, industry experts got creative to meet the growing demand for new homes for a surge of homebuyers and homeowners who wanted to take advantage of low interest rates. During the pandemic, loans were averaging more than 45 days to close, according to data from ICE Mortgage Technology.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“Worst case scenario, the broker representing the buyer will have to negotiate their own fee with their client and the seller can no longer be compelled to make a blanket offer of compensation in order to list on the MLS,” Murray said. Therefore, it won’t just impact agents, but technology systems, she added.

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