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What’s Next for Large-Scale iBuying Companies?
March 4th, 2022
Regardless of how you feel about iBuyers, they’ve shown that the business model has legs in residential real estate. That said, as the real estate market shifts, some experts and industry observers have pondered what the future holds for the...
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Helen Adams Realty Offers New Help for Clients, Including iBuying
March 9th, 2022
With record-low-housing inventory fueling homes selling at breakneck speed and often above the initial listing price, Charlotte, North Carolina homeowners who are ready to sell are discovering new ways to maximize their profit. The sellers’ market also makes it difficult...
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Wall Street Sinks Its Teeth Into Housing
April 1st, 2022
Often seen as existential threats to the industry—or even to the whole current model of home buying and selling—Big Tech and Wall Street are now involved more than ever in residential real estate, from algorithmic-based iBuyers to venture capital-backed brokerage...
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Zillow’s Pivot Not a Sign of an iBuying Collapse
October 21st, 2021
The innovative practice of iBuying, at least on the surface, seems like a tremendous shift—a new, growing force with the potential to rock the real estate industry in myriad ways. Pundits, observers and brokers have regularly shared predictions as to...
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Exploring eXp: Splits, Caps, Commissions and Everything You Wanted to Know About the Virtual Brokerage
April 7th, 2022
Maybe it is the company’s sleek, 21st century branding and focus on virtual rather than physical space. Maybe it is a recent meteoric rise (from 1,000 agents in March of 2016 to 70,000 at the end of last year). Maybe...
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Industry Reacts, iBuyers Stay the Course Following Zillow Pullback
November 3rd, 2021
In a move that shocked many but perhaps not a complete surprise, Zillow announced late yesterday afternoon that it was laying off a quarter of its staff and ending its venture into iBuying. This came after a “pause” the company...
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Report Shows a Waning Number of Home Sellers Turning to iBuying in Q1 2022
June 13th, 2022
While iBuyers have kept the wheels turning in the first three months of 2022, headwinds in the housing market appear to be straining prominent players’ in other aspects of their businesses. That’s evident as recent Zillow data show that fewer...
zavvie Adds New Buying Solutions to Expand Its Brokerage Marketplace
November 17th, 2021
zavvie has announced it is adding new buying solutions to its marketplace that offer more affordability and accessibility options for homebuyers. “zavvie is giving the modern brokerage an expanded marketplace that will increase options for buyers, while keeping real estate...
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Ending of an Era: Zillow Sells its Final Zillow Offers Home
October 14th, 2022
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Zillow Subject of Multiple Lawsuits Over iBuying
November 23rd, 2021
The hits keep on coming for Zillow. After first pausing in October and then officially sunsetting its iBuying business earlier this month, Zillow has now been hit by two investor class-action lawsuits that claim, among other things, that the real...
