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Trulia releases rentals app for iPad

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Trulia has released a consumer-facing rentals iPad app to join the Android phone, tablet and iPhone versions already available, the San Francisco-based firm announced today. The new app, which focuses solely on rentals, features a rental price heat map that ...

Study reveals housing discrimination against gay couples

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 06:37 AM PDT

Coming shortly after the release of a study that revealed persistent housing discrimination against minorities, the results of another investigation recently unveiled by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows that same-sex couples looking to rent homes are more ...

Nestio unveils listing management platform for landlords

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 05:57 AM PDT

Like many landlords, Copperwood Real Estate used to struggle to efficiently manage and distribute its listings. To populate its public-facing site, it would have to convert listing information that it maintained in a spreadsheet into code and insert that code ...

Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky list NYC home

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 05:29 AM PDT

Marc Mezvinsky, the husband of Chelsea Clinton, has put the couple's NYC home on the market for $4.48 million, The Real Deal reported. The pair is apparently trading up: they reportedly purchased a $10.5 million apartment across from Madison Square ...

Mortgage applications slip as interest rates climb for 6th straight week

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 04:42 AM PDT

As interest rates continued to climb, applications for purchase loans for the week ending June 14 slipped a seasonally adjusted 3 percent from a week earlier, but were up 12 percent from the same week last year, according to the results ...

Merger creates new Coldwell Banker franchise in Northern California

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 01:02 PM PDT

Two leading Solano County, Calif., brokerages have merged and affiliated with franchisor Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. The merger of Vacaville-based Kappel & Kappel Realty Inc. with Solano Gateway Realty Inc. in Fairfield beefs up Coldwell Banker's presence along the ...

Imagining the real estate industry, 5 years out

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 12:14 PM PDT

What will the real estate industry look like five years from now, and how can brokers and agents prepare for it? Leaders of four companies that have been at the forefront of change — Redfin, Trulia, Zillow and Move Inc. ...

Floored voted best real estate tech startup at Realogy summit

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 11:39 AM PDT

Floored, which creates interactive 3-D floor plans that allow users to walk through a virtual recreation of an actual space, was voted the best real estate tech startup today at the Realogy FWD Innovation Summit, hosted at the real estate ...

Move, MSN renew content-sharing agreement

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 09:40 AM PDT

Realtor.com operator Move Inc. has renewed a content-sharing agreement with MSN that allows consumers to access Move's property listings and related information from MSN Real Estate, the sixth-most popular real estate site in the U.S. Under the agreement, Move will continue ...

Report: Franchising rights for ERA Asian-Pacific region up for sale

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 09:38 AM PDT

Franchising rights to provide services to ERA Real Estate-affiliated brokerages in 18 Asian-Pacific countries are up for sale, and could fetch up to $160 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Singapore-based Hersing Corp., which holds ERA franchise rights in China, ...

Coldwell Banker expands in Connecticut

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 09:32 AM PDT

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage has acquired the assets of Century 21 Greengarden Realty Inc., a 63-agent brokerage in Bridgeport, Conn. Century 21 Greengarden Realty's Bridgeport office will merge into the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office located at 2 Corporate Drive ...

$100 million listing comes with owner

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 08:32 AM PDT

Forbes' annual list of America's most expensive homes identifies more than 30 properties priced at $60 million and up — including a 47-acre estate halfway between San Francisco and Silicon Valley whose owner, Christian de Guigne IV, has placed a ...

Properties Online will build websites for all Century 21 listings

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Realogy Holdings Corp. franchisor Century 21 Real Estate LLC has hired Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Properties Online Inc. to build custom property websites for every listing that appears on the company's website. The unique property websites will be generated at no ...

LA landlord converting office buildings into apartments

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 08:21 AM PDT

Jamison Services Inc., which owns 60 office buildings in the Los Angeles market, is converting five of them into multifamily residences and looking for other opportunities to capitalize on rising demand from apartment renters, Bloomberg reports. Source: bloomberg.com ...

Zillow launches collaborative home search tool

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 08:13 AM PDT

Zillow Inc. has launched a mobile-enabled collaborative home search and shopping tool, Agentfolio, that's aimed at buy-side agents and their clients, allowing them to search, comment on, review and share homes they are interested in. The tool — which is ...

MarketVideos.com: the next best thing to hit real estate video marketing

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 07:45 AM PDT

  One of the biggest challenges in real estate marketing today is creating video content. Let's face it, agents are not meant to be self-producing video creators. There is a learning curve to production, post-production, equipment, storyboarding, and the list goes on. And yet, ...

Real estate tech startup gathering to be held in NYC tomorrow

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 03:29 AM PDT

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story stated that the Meetup would take place tonight. In fact, it will take place tomorrow. In an effort to foster cross-pollination between real estate tech entrepreneurs, monthly Meetups are being held in venues ...

‘Disparate impact’ doctrine troubling property owners, mortgage lenders

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 03:07 AM PDT

Two federal lawsuits brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week spotlights an issue that is getting increasing attention from home mortgage lenders, rental property owners, local governments, and now the U.S. Supreme Court: "disparate impact." Disparate impact is ...

Carrington Real Estate expands into Colorado, Michigan

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 03:34 PM PDT

Carrington Real Estate Services LLC has added brokerage offices in Colorado and Michigan, bringing the number of states where it has agents on the ground to ...

Fannie, Freddie regulator hires insurance lobbyist as adviser

Posted: 17 Jun 2013 03:33 PM PDT

The federal agency that regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has raised eyebrows by hiring a lawyer and insurance industry lobbyist to advise it on force-placed insurance. Charles Landgraf "played a key early role in coordinating Fannie Mae and Freddie ...
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