Boston PR executive Lisa Nickerson is starting a new chapter, as CEO of real estate tech company Infinityy. The firm promises big enhancements to property listings and AI analysis of what’s driving buyer interest in homes.
Associations, brokers, agents and MLS leaders shouldn’t assume that defendants in the commission lawsuits can win on appeal – and that agent commissions will go down in the lawsuits’ wake.
Can you mine new housing inventory and leads for real estate agents from homes whose owners haven’t even made the firm decision to sell? That’s the bet a new local startup is making.
If you wanted to buy or sell a home in Greater Boston before the summer of 1955, you were in for a struggle, “hot-footing it from one broker to another.”
Commercial real estate listings and data giant CoStar waded into the residential real estate space Monday, announcing a $250 million deal to acquire Homesnap.
MLS PIN, the largest multiple-listings service in Massachusetts, has relaunched its website to better support agents accessing it via mobile devices, combining the move with rebranding itself as “wicked smart.”
The National Association of Realtors has all but put a stop to one controversial practice some agents use to hide their listings from other agents. But some crafty realty pros are already finding their way around the new rules.
An influential group of multiple listings service operators from around the country warn “the multiple listing service as we know it is in jeopardy,” but many Massachusetts real estate agents aren’t so sure.
Local professional real estate groups are applauding the National Association of Realtors’ decision Tuesday to try to curb the practice of pocket listings.
The first quarter of 2018 delivered a new high-water mark for condominium prices in Boston. The average price per square foot was over $1,000 per square foot for all condos for the first time and sale prices were above $1.4 million.
The January numbers are in and the spring market has sprung. From the look of things, 2018 is going to make the feverish 2017 market look tepid and continuing to squeeze buyers. Though the typical spring rush of new listings is coming online, it hasn’t been enough to satisfy the demand created by six years of declining inventory.
A 2008 settlement between the National Association of Realtors and the U.S. Department of Justice is set to expire in November, prompting speculation about how the Realtor organization will control access to listing information going forward.
Experts agree that 2018 is going to be good – but not as good as last year – for the mortgage business nationwide, leaving Massachusetts lenders and originators to compete even harder for fewer residential loans.
If there was a lead generation program that cost nothing, that resulted in more closed listing transactions than all the real estate lead generation, MLS and brokerage websites combined, and that allowed you to do a face-to-face presentation with “right now buyers and sellers,” would you use it? If you answered yes, it’s time to revisit the open house.
Zillow Group announced yesterday that Bridge Interactive has added more than 10 multiple listing services representing more than 180,000 agents to its growing customer base.
