Policy

In Digital ID Era, Property And Privacy Enter Brave New World

The inevitability of an industry standard property identification record -- and its vast array of benefits and uses -- doesn't diminish the need for eyes-open recognition of the big risks.

Marketing & Sales

New Open-Source X Lab Market Looks To Cut 6% Commissions

An open-sourced power-of-information platform would give consumer sellers and buyers more sway, more savings, and less friction in one of life's anxiety-filled experiences: Property transactions.

Capital

Which Comes First, The Asset Class Or Housing Preference?

Will single-family short-term rental empires spring up to meet an unmet consumer housing/hospitality need? Big capital seems to believe it will be so, and targets it as a new asset class.

Capital

iBuyers Defy Doubters As They Retrace Toward Former Levels

iBuyers, the vaunted proptech buyer-seller matching platforms that had barely established a footing in home sales pre-pandemic, are clawing back as a percentage of residential transactions.