It’s no secret—the real challenge to attaining homeownership isn’t the monthly payment. It’s the down payment. Countless would-be buyers could easily cover a mortgage, especially with rates where they have been the past decade. But when you ask if they’ve got $50,000 or $100,

Every company’s marketing plan is predictable these days, something to the tune of Company X is going to use AI to... * Send more personalized messages. * Email more prospective home buyers. * Text more builders. * Send more LinkedIn mails. * Answer more customer questions. * Send more postcards. You get the point. All

WRITTEN BY: JERED DENNIS [Adapted from From Zero Code to Swipe Home: How AI Rewired My Brain] Before May 5, 2025, I knew my computer basics—processors, storage, and screens—but I couldn’t tell you how they talked to each other. Writing code? Architecting a full-blown application? These were

WRITTEN BY: SETH SIEGLER As a follow up to the recent State of AI group discussion, here’s my promised follow-up: a list of the AI tools myself and the eXp team have been using recently, and a quick take on what the pros and cons are (from my experience)

The prospect of democratizing access to real estate investments—once the exclusive domain of wealthy individuals, accredited investors, and family offices—has fueled a wave of fractional investment platforms. But challenges abound. Reaching everyday investors requires expensive marketing, and building trust remains a major challenge to converting interest into actual

In the real estate portal arms race, everyone’s chasing the same prize: owning the entire consumer journey. From a consumer’s first dream of home ownership to eventually financing, closing, and even servicing it, portals want to own the entire transaction. Zillow’s bundled ecosystem of listings aims to

Airbnb recently updated its Off-Platform and Fee Transparency Policy. The two big buckets are off-platform payments (such as external damage deposits) and the more strategically interesting one—off-platform bookings. With a take rate between 5-15%, Airbnb knows that hosts moving guests off platform risks disintermediation. I’ve been thinking about

No-code product building solutions aren’t “new,” per say. Replit was founded back in 2016—nine years ago. I intuitively knew building products without actual coding is possible. But I hadn’t done the work to know for certain. I’ve had off-and-on conversations about this topic over the previous

AI will serve as a catalyst to home search iteration, not a fundamentally new value proposition. The ListAssist acquisition by Inside Real Estate is further validation. It is interesting that Howard Hanna, an owner and board member of MoxiWorks, is ListAssist’s largest client. I suspect ListAssist’s Howard Hanna

The MLS has always functioned like a giant filing cabinet—you have to login, sift through everything, and manually find information using queries. Facilitating that with software, the core MLS software space has remained largely unchanged for decades. CoreLogic’s Matrix, FBS’ Flexmls, ICE’s (formerly BlackKnight) Paragon MLS, and

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