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Floify launches Dynamic Apps 2.0 to support HELOC, specialty lending

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Floify announced on Tuesday the launch of Dynamic Apps 2.0, an enhancement to its mortgage point-of-sale platform that lets lenders build and manage fully customizable digital loan applications without engineering support or third-party tools. With Dynamic Apps 2.0, lenders can configure loan application experiences by product type and borrower scenario, extending the Floify POS beyond […]

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Existing-home sales up in February, market faces spring challenges

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U.S. existing-home sales rose slightly in February, increasing 1.7% from the previous month, though activity remained lower than a year earlier, according to new data released Tuesday by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The organization reported sales reaching a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million in February. Compared with the same month last

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Seniors want to age in place, but family caregivers face strains on multiple fronts

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As America’s population continues to grow older, family members are increasingly stepping into demanding roles as caregivers — which often comes at considerable personal cost. A Pew Research Center survey of 8,750 U.S. adults found that one in 10 reports serving as a caregiver for a parent 65 or older. Another 3 % care for a

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NAR reaffirms MLS autonomy amid Compass-Redfin partnership

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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reaffirmed that multiple listing services (MLSs) retain discretion to set their own rules and policies regarding listing statuses — following news of Compass marketing its Coming Soon and private listings on Redfin. Compass and Redfin parent company Rocket announced the partnership Feb. 26. In an email sent to Compass

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How will rising oil prices impact the U.S. housing market?

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As we enter another week of the Iran conflict, the question now is what will this do to the economy, but for this article, we want to focus specifically on what this conflict means for the U.S. housing market. There are currently two sides to this discussion. One camp believes the economy is still expanding

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RezeLink AI platform aims to accelerate title search workflows

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Rezervology and Titl have announced the launch of RezeLink, an artificial intelligence (AI) solution designed to streamline and accelerate title search workflows. The platform will debut first for users of SoftPro — with additional title production system (TPS) integrations planned for future releases. RezeLink introduces automation capabilities designed to simplify multiple steps in the title

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Real Brokerage adds top San Diego agent Jason Cassity as chief growth officer

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Jason Cassity is moving onto the executive team at The Real Brokerage from a top-producing agent and team leader role in San Diego, as the cloud brokerage creates a new chief growth officer position to drive agent growth and engagement. The Real Brokerage Inc. (NASDAQ: REAX) announced the appointment Monday, saying the newly created role

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As brokerage giants merge, Real Estate One bets on the power of local platforms

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During a recent conversation about industry consolidation at Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE)’s annual event, Dan Elsea paused to reflect on the growth of his company. There was no sweeping strategy session and no consultants mapping out the future of the brokerage. Instead, the CEO and owner of Real Estate One Family

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Corcoran Reverie, Housify form luxury valuation partnership

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Florida-based Corcoran Reverie has announced an exclusive partnership with property valuation and analytics platform Housify. The platform draws on more than 15 years of transactional data, market trends and proprietary engineering to produce highly localized property valuations. Housify’s system analyzes multiple data sources — including local MLS information, county GIS records and property appraiser data

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Newrez is waiving lender title insurance on some refis

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Multichannel mortgage lender Newrez has launched Newrez TitlePass for use in its wholesale channel, giving mortgage brokers a way to waive the lender title insurance requirement on certain refinance loans. This could potentially save borrowers hundreds or thousands of dollars in closing costs, the company said Monday. The program is offered exclusively through Newrez’s affiliated

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