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Chase vows to close mortgages in 3 weeks — or hand you $1,000

Chase Home Lending vowed on Wednesday to close any borrower’s mortgage application within 21 days — or write out a check for $1,000. The ‘Closing Guarantee’ program, which the New York-based bank announced in advance of the spring homebuying season, promises to give current Chase customers a decision on their mortgage application within three weeks. The […]

WATCH: Why your emotional intelligence matters

Tap into your EQ, and open the door to new business and life skills with Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence Founding Director Marc Brackett. Source: click here

Zillow co-founder Rich Barton back as CEO, Spencer Rascoff out

Zillow co-founder Rich Barton is stepping back into the reins as CEO, replacing Spencer Rascoff, the real estate tech giant announced amid its fourth quarter 2018 corporate earnings release. Rich Barton, co-founder and CEO of Zillow Group Barton, who co-founded Zillow in 2005, was replaced by Rascoff after stepping down as CEO in 2010. He […]

Is this Gary Keller’s Achilles heel?

Standing before 20,000 agent-followers in New Orleans last week, Gary Keller presented his latest triumphant moment, a mix of real estate and showmanship. Source: click here

This new home-equity tool is like CreditKarma for home value

Have suggestions for products that you’d like to see reviewed by our real estate technology expert? Email Craig Rowe. If the housing bubble of the mid-2000s wasn’t enough to make home equity an everyday concern for homeowners, surely the Zestimate drove home the idea that a house should be looked at with the same level […]

JP & Associates latest brokerage to offer health care to agents

The Texas-based brokerage JP & Associates Realtors is the latest real estate company to offer its agents an associated health care plan. The move comes on the heels of the brokerage’s push to franchise last summer. “I could not be more excited for our agents,” JP Piccinini, founder and CEO of JP & Associates Realtors, said […]

Open Listings in Dallas gets folded into the Opendoor brand

Discount brokerage Open Listings will cease using its own branding in the Dallas area later this month and carry on under the banner of iBuyer Opendoor, which became its parent company last fall. California-based Open Listings announced the branding change Wednesday in an email to users, stating that “on Feb. 27th, we will stop operating as Open Listings in Dallas-Fort Worth […]

Existing-home sales hit 3-year low

Existing home sales fell for the third-consecutive month in January, according to new data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Home sales were down 1.2 percent over last month and 8.5 percent from January 2018. The 4.94 million homes sold in January 2019 is the lowest home sales have been since November 2014. The Northeast […]

Zillow reports record $1.3B annual revenue, but losses widen

In an earnings report today, Seattle-based Zillow Group posted a net loss of $97.7 million in the fourth quarter and a net loss of $120 million for all of 2018. Source: click here

WATCH: An inside look at 4 competing brokerages’ models

Online, traditional, capped-fee models — brokerages come in a variety of types these days with varying pros and cons for agents. Listen in as these ICNY panelists spell out the advantages of their particular flavor of brokerage.  Source: click here

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