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This guest post comes to us from Andrew Baum, Visiting Professor of Management Practice, Said Business School, University of OxfordWill we soon be able to buy a house with the click of a button? My report, PropTech 3.0: the future of real estate, published by Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on May 10th, takes an expansive look at property technology (proptech), and its findings detail ...
Start Next Quarter Strong: 4 Ways to Fill Your Pipeline via Your CRMSeptember 6, 2017|In Uncategorized|By Wise Agent As a real estate agent, your business depends on having a healthy list of clientele in order to boost sales and close more deals. Now you may be wondering, “What happens when the pipeline has dried up and it is a struggle to find leads?” This is an excellent opportunity to utili...
Using Twitter as a PR Tool by Kevin Hawkins on September 5, 2017 Twitter is probably one of the most ignored social media channels in real estate marketing and PR, which is remarkable considering its breadth and depth: 328 million monthly active users and 67 million of them in the U.S., a half-billion Tweets per day, and 80% of users access Twitter on their mobile devices. Okay, admittedly, Twitte...
LONDON — Two of the UK's leading "PropTech" — property technology — companies have announced fundraisings of over £45 million between them over the last few days. Yopa, an online estate agent that offers a fixed transaction fee rather than taking a percentage of the sale, announced late on Friday that it had raised £27.6 million from estate agent group LSL and Daily Mail-ow...
Habito, a London startup that is bringing the entire mortgage process online, has raised £18.5 million in Series B funding. Atomico, the European VC firm founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennström, led the round, with participation from existing investors Ribbit Capital, Mosaic Ventures, and Revolutionary (Ad)Ventures. It brings the total raised by the U.K. company to just over £27 million. More int...
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google’s effort to acquire a broad swath of downtown San Jose properties for a massive new tech campus is triggering a sharp jump in selling prices for commercial real estate in the area.
Agents and brokers know that one of the most painful parts of a real estate transaction is one that continues to be mired in paperwork: obtaining the mortgage. In the hopes of addressing that problem, mortgage finance firm Ellie Mae is spending $128 million in cash to acquire Velocify, a lender lead management platform that helps lender sales teams respond quickly to leads, improves their producti...
Drew Grewal faced fines of nearly half a million dollars because his Miami Beach home was being listed illegally on Airbnb. In Miami Beach — as in New York, San Diego and many other U.S. cities — short-term rentals of the kind facilitated by Airbnb, VRBO, Tripadvisor and others are strictly limited. Laws, fees and taxes vary regionally, but fines for violations are typically high. In Miami Bea...
Ellie Mae announced Thursday that it will acquire Velocify, a sales acceleration platform, for $128 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2017 and will not impact third-quarter financials, the company said. “As part of our comprehensive strategy to deliver the first true digital mortgage to the industry, we are helping lenders to originate more loans, re...
By Lou Hirsh Wednesday, August 30, 2017 Tweet Oakland-headquartered Mynd, which describes itself as a “tech-powered” residential rental property management company, has acquired San Diego-based Pacific Shore Management for an undisclosed price. A statement from Mynd, which currently operates primarily in the Bay Area, said the acquisition of Pacific Shore Management, based in Mission Val...