What time is most popular for home searches? The Real Word
Opinion
This week: Byron Lazine and Nicole White offer insights on a 'savagely unhealthy' housing market, longer homeownership tenures and the most popular time to search for homes
by Byron Lazine Mar 28
The new bill that could destroy homeownership: The Real Word
Opinion
This week: Byron Lazine and Nicole White offer insights on a new California bill to tax flippers, a new NAR report on home values, and Walmart's new mortgage partnership
by Byron Lazine Mar 18
Is this the end of real estate love letters? The Real Word
Opinion
This week: Byron Lazine and Nicole White offer insights on an Oregon judge's buyer love letter decision, a boom in new real estate agents, and name Christy Murdock as Marketeer of the Week
by Byron Lazine Mar 11
Is the housing market crashing? The Real Word
Opinion
This week: Byron Lazine and Nicole White offer insights on NAR's pending-home-sale stats, discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine and name Tom Toole Marketeer of the Week
by Byron Lazine Mar 3
Zillow's plan to double agent business by 2025: The Real Word
Opinion
This week: Byron Lazine and Nicole White weigh in on Zillow's 3.0 strategy, home value predictions for 2022 and Rocket Mortgage's Super Bowl collab with Barbie
by Byron Lazine Feb 18
Plunk, Restb.ai partner to power next-gen home valuations
Two proptech apps, Plunk and Restb.ai, partner to better leverage how homesellers and agents analyze value in home renovations
by Craig C. Rowe Nov 10
Compass Lens to help agents envision, value major renovations
The tech-leaning brokerage announced today the launch of a computer vision-based tool that searches and categorizes room renovations to help agents price homes
by Craig C. Rowe Jul 8
This new home-equity tool is like CreditKarma for home value
HSH.com, a long-time mortgage industry resource, has launched a new tool for homeowners to manage home equity as an active financial asset
by Craig C. Rowe Feb 21
CoreLogic home valuations to get machine learning boost
The publicly traded company has inked a deal with Minneapolis-based Pushpin
by Andrea V. Brambila Jan 25
Voiceter Pro says voice-activated real estate search is here to stay
The app developer has launched its voice-activated home search and valuation skills in major markets
by Craig C. Rowe May 7
Voiceter Pro debuts new Alexa home valuation skill
Those who ask, 'Alexa, what's my house worth?' will be connected to a Voiceter Pro partner agent
by Craig C. Rowe Oct 20
HouseCanary raises $31M in Series B funding round
The funds will be poured into improving valuations, forecasting
by Marian McPherson Sep 14
A canary
The family investment office of Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt participated in the funding round
by Teke Wiggin Jan 13
Gap between appraiser/homeowner opinion of value grows to almost 2%
Home valuations overall, however, are posting meaningful annual growth of nearly 5 percent
by Caroline Feeney Jul 12
Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff sold home for much less than Zestimate
Clients putting Zestimates on a pedestal? Point them toward this sale
by Teke Wiggin May 18