As AI adoption grows, MLSs emerge as technology validators

As AI adoption grows, MLSs emerge as technology validators

As AI rapidly reshapes how real estate agents work, multiple listing services are taking on a new role: tech validators. That’s according to Liz Sturrock, head of MLS and innovation at Miami... Read more »
How FrameTec plans to cut build-cycle times and reduce waste

How FrameTec plans to cut build-cycle times and reduce waste

Dozens of innovative companies have sprung up over the past 15 years, each vowing to revolutionize home building.  Many haven’t, don’t, and won’t make it through the “early-stage” gauntlet of A, B,... Read more »
Why logging, protection, and review matter

Why logging, protection, and review matter

In real estate, title insurance, and mortgage lending, transactions depend on technology operating accurately and securely behind the scenes. Every login, file access, system change, and integration generates activity that can either... Read more »
Startup Varda Space Industries snags former Mattel plant in El Segundo

Startup Varda Space Industries snags former Mattel plant in El Segundo

In an expansion of its business of processing pharmaceuticals in Earth’s orbit, Varda Space Industries is renting a large El Segundo plant where toy manufacturer Mattel used to design Hot Wheels and... Read more »
Tavant agentic AI portal connects lenders, real estate agents, borrowers

Tavant agentic AI portal connects lenders, real estate agents, borrowers

Sandeep Shivam — associate director of fintech at Tavant — described how AI agents sit atop the company’s experience layer and connect via APIs. “Depending on the list of functionalities that you... Read more »
Rocket Pro Compass partnership adds 40 bps broker credit

Rocket Pro Compass partnership adds 40 bps broker credit

Jay Bray, CEO of Rocket Mortgage, said the connection between brokers and Compass agents will roll out in phases. “There are existing partners that already have relationships with Compass agents. Phase two... Read more »
Beazer Homes’ key differentiator? Sustainability and innovation

Beazer Homes’ key differentiator? Sustainability and innovation

Like it or not, for consumers in today’s market for a newly built home – especially younger, more price- and interest-rate sensitive ones – a home builder is a homebuilder is a... Read more »
California’s Acacia Village tests offsite infill’s feasibility advantage

California’s Acacia Village tests offsite infill’s feasibility advantage

A pocket neighborhood is a deceptively simple idea, with a decades-deep real-life pedigree. A small cluster of homes. Close enough to share green space and create a sense of place. Small enough... Read more »
New app blurs the social media, MLS line

New app blurs the social media, MLS line

Agents can follow other agents, track listings and share properties with clients from their mobile devices. The app is intended to simplify how users interact with MLS information while staying focused on... Read more »
Kind Lending and CANDID partner to redefine the mortgage enterprise

Kind Lending and CANDID partner to redefine the mortgage enterprise

In an industry often tethered to the patchwork systems of the past, true institutional growth requires more than a software update. It requires a foundational shift. Today, Kind Lending, the national mortgage... Read more »