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Knock will buy you a new home, even if you don’t have one to sell

Just because you’re not selling a home doesn’t mean you can’t participate in an iBuyer program. On Thursday, real estate tech startup Knock launched a new product for first-time homebuyers: Knock will help them get pre-approved for a mortgage, buy a house on their behalf in cash and then transfer it over to them. “First-time […]

Buyers should take advantage of mortgage rate decline

Freddie Mac released its latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) results Thursday, which revealed that mortgage rates have dropped 0.2 percentage points week-over-week to 4.55 percent — the fourth decline in the past five weeks. Freddie Mac Chief Economist Sam Khater says mortgage rates have stabilized over the past two months, a piece of good news […]

The Real Word: Zillow’s first Instant Offers home under contract

Watch Byron Lazine and Nicole White give a real estate agent’s perspective on industry-related topics. This week, they’ll talk through Zillow putting its first Instant Offers home under contract as a seller.  Source: click here

Only 21% of people understand what low credit will do to their loans

A recent analysis by Zillow found that homebuyers with lower credit scores pay thousands of dollars more for the same property compared to buyers with high credit scores. Source: click here

How to land a spot at your dream brokerage

Getting a real estate license doesn’t mean you are listing ready. There is a lot of buzz about how real estate agents are self-employed, but this is not the case when you are just getting started. Real estate rookies will need to partner with a broker, which is much like getting a job. Source: click […]

Redfin CEO: ‘The stability of the marketplace has been undermined’

In a phone interview with Inman, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman and Chelsea Goyer, Redfin’s vice president of recruiting, discuss partner programs and MLS relations. Source: click here

Redfin wants to change listing displays across the industry

High-tech brokerage Redfin thinks there’s a problem with the way many real estate listings are displayed online, and it has a proposed fix that it wants the board of NAR to adopt in November at its bi-annual conference. The change is a small but significant data standardization effort that would sweepingly impact the information that […]

Localize, the artificial intelligence-driven startup, raises $11 million

Localize, a two-year-old startup that aggregates detailed summaries of every address in New York City with the help of artificial intelligence, has raised $11 million in a funding round, company executives told Inman. The New York City-based startup, which provides information on schools, construction, weather conditions and other neighborhood amenities, raised $3 million in an […]

SEE IT: Oakland agents caught on camera giving buyers tips on how to evict tenants

Agents in the rapidly gentrifying San Francisco Bay Area city of Oakland, California, have been caught on camera giving advice on how to evict tenants to a local news reporter posing as a prospective buyer. In early June, KPIX 5 reporter Susie Steimle attended at least three open houses for renter-occupied duplexes and triplexes in […]

Does a Compass lie? Finding true north in real estate

Earlier this week, Brad Inman relayed a story about a spat between Windermere and Compass. His analysis seems like the perfect lens through which to view the current state of the industry. Source: click here

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