Despite the initial controversy, Homes.com isn’t letting up on its traffic war with Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin. The CoStar-owned portal reported late last week that it reached 149 million unique visitors in February, which equals a mind-boggling 567 percent growth in unique visitors compared to February 2023.
Category: technology
Radius Agent’s AI tool has been taught compliance standards
Independent, tech-forward brokerage Radius Agent (Radius) has built an artificial intelligence assistant for its agents and staff, called Mel, designed to assist with compliance, marketing and business management.
MoxiCloud welcomes RealReports to its network
RealReports uses artificial intelligence to curate and categorize listing documents, data and insights, pulling from a wide range of sources for consumer-facing use in an array of sales environments, but especially listing presentations and home search.
Title technology provider Doma posts $124M 2023 net loss
CEO Max Simkoff says the company is well positioned to help lenders take advantage of the Biden administration’s push to reduce closing costs for mortgage borrowers.
Realtor.com the latest portal to include climate risk data
The climate’s toddler-like, harder-than-ever-to-predict behavior is having a measurable impact on the housing market, a reality that led to Realtor.com partnering with First Street, a non-profit organization that provides data and critical resources on climate change.
Mortgage tech provider Polly launches new intelligence platform
Lender Intelligence harnesses advanced data science and machine learning tools to give lenders a holistic view of their business and the wider competitive landscape.
Case-Shiller is a go-to source for prices — but know these blind spots
Repeat-sales models have been the gold standard in home-price tracking for decades. Intel examines what they miss, and what some data providers are doing to fill in the gaps.
HomeStack, LiveEasy partner to advance white-labeled solutions
HomeStack and LiveEasy offer white-labeled applications for real estate agents, vendors and consumers and provide a range of communication functions, home insights and market data. The two have announced a partnership.
Curbio faces lawsuits, complaints from agents amid rapid growth
Some Realtors and the attorney general in Washington, D.C., have come forward with criticism of Curbio. Executives say the complaints represent a tiny fraction of the thousands it has helped.
Opendoor’s partnership with eXp officially goes live
The companies’ integrated technology will streamline the process to make Opendoor cash offers available to eXp’s tens of thousands of agents.