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Latest funding round values Nextdoor at $1.1 billion

In the summer of 2012, Nextdoor was the most talked about new social network at Real Estate Connect, and the company closed its first round of $18.6 million in funding from investors including Zillow Chairman and co-founder Rich Barton. Today, the company announced that it’s raised $110 million in a fourth…
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How Zillow plans to stay on top: Watch the video

In a lively exchange with Inman Publisher Brad Inman, hear what Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff has to say about how Zillow climbed to the top, and how it intends to stay there. Now that Zillow owns Trulia, it will decide how to price real estate agent advertising not only for…
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March 4, 2015

Website arms single-family home investors with neighborhood info

HomeUnion has added detailed neighborhood information to its website that’s intended to give individual investors the confidence to look beyond their own backyards for single-family homes that might make good investments. Launched last May, HomeUnion says it’s out to level the playing field for smaller investors, helping them compete with…
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Start preparing for Chinese homebuyers and real estate investors

The United States attracts more Chinese real estate buyers than any other country. Chinese investors are buying U.S. property in order to diversify their assets outside of China, for investment purposes, for immigration reasons or because they have a child studying in the U.S. According to the National Association of…
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Criminals targeting agents in homes will face stiffer penalties in this state

Virginia lawmakers have passed a Realtor-backed bill that can add up to five years to the prison sentences of people who commit crimes including murder, robbery and rape after luring their victims into vacant homes. The legislation represents one of the most muscular responses from the industry to heightened concerns over…
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How I’m landing real estate sales with Instagram

This is a story about my personal quest into the world of Instagram. The push to grow my business via Instagram started one year ago — and, I’ll be honest, it was out of pure, competitive jealousy. I was hanging out at a friend’s house when I found out that his…
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March 4, 2015

13 tips on how to be a street-smart and safe real estate agent

I have been part of the real estate industry for many years, both in Canada and now in France, and I have many friends and family who are working or have worked in the industry. As an agent, I know we take risks in our daily work, and I was…
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Zillow secures direct feeds from 25 MLSs in February

In the month of February, 25 multiple listing services signed up to send listings in direct feeds to Zillow, the listing portal said in an announcement. The disclosure sheds more light on the headway that the listing portal has made in securing direct feeds from MLSs ahead of the April 7 expiration date of its agreement…
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March 4, 2015

Agent-only app sifts MLS data to show agents how they’re connected

Homesnap’s agent-only mobile app, Homesnap Pro, just learned a cool new trick: Sifting transactional data from participating MLSs, the app can show agents how they’re connected to each other — whether they or someone in their office has done a deal with a particular agent, for example, or if they…
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Ginger Wilcox: ‘Technology can enable service rather than replace it’

Ginger Wilcox of Sindeo talks about helping consumers select the right mortgage and managing a transparent marketplace containing private information. The post Ginger Wilcox: ‘Technology can enable service rather than replace it’ appeared first on WFG National Title Insurance Company.
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