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

Housing Wire

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. The similarities between the two end there.

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Predictive analytics for real estate: Best tools + guide

Housing Wire

Smart Data: Over 1 billion data points on residential and commercial real estate. Calculators: Estimate renovation and dwelling additions costs to assist in budget and investment strategies. Im sure that in the near future, the commercial data will be more reliable and readily available.

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Bain Capital gains majority stake in residential investment lender Archwest Capital

Housing Wire

We are pleased to partner with Shawn and the Archwest team to deliver dynamic financing solutions to home builders , renovators and landlords who are expanding and improving the critically undersupplied U.S. Archwest provides business-purpose financing for single-family and multifamily homes, as well as mixed-use and commercial properties.

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Leading Australian reverse mortgage lender undergoes rebrand

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We are excited to deliver the Heartland Bank brand to our reverse mortgage customers,” said Medina Cicak, the bank’s newly appointed chief commercial officer. More than half of the company’s reverse mortgage customers (55%) are using their loan proceeds to fund home renovations or to consolidate debt (51%). billion AUD, or roughly $1.2

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What AVMs can and can’t do in the appraisal process

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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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Property services company MCS enters reverse mortgage space

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It also says that Five Brothers will be integrated into MCS to offer property preservation, maintenance and renovation services. has been in business for more than 50 years and offers regulatory compliant default, rental and real estate-owned (REO) residential and commercial property preservation services.

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Institutional SFR players are stuck in the doldrums

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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.