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Final Offer launches in Texas with Keller Williams brokerages

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Final Offer — a digital platform for home listings and offer negotiations — has expanded into the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area through partnerships with several Keller Williams brokerages, the company announced Tuesday. Participating offices include GO Network — Keller Williams’ largest franchise network — as well as Keller Williams Realty Allen, Keller Williams Heritage West, […]

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Tech Pulse: Smart home tools for seniors; AI marketing for agents

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Welcome back to Tech Pulse — HousingWire‘s weekly series rounding up the latest in technology news, including tools, integrations and trends that impact mortgage and real estate. Here’s what happened this week: The new smart home technology that’s helping seniors age in place With seniors now outnumbering children in many U.S. states, demand is growing for aging-in-place technology. Dr. Jing

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TransUnion discloses cyberattack impacting 4.4M consumers

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Credit bureau TransUnion disclosed Wednesday that a July cyberattack compromised the personal data of more than 4.4 million consumers, according to a filing with the Office of the Maine Attorney General. In a letter to affected customers, the company stressed that the breach did not involve its core systems or credit files. Instead, hackers gained

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Is Opendoor the next meme stock revival story or fool’s gold?

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After its ride on the meme stock rollercoaster and the resignation of its CEO, Opendoor has indicated it is ready to start a new chapter, one that will ideally bring it back to profitability, but activist retail investors are asking that they get a say in the firm’s next moves.  Opendoor’s eventful summer began in

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It’s time to facilitate tech stacks that actually work for title agents

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Here’s an uncomfortable truth: the title industry has long been held hostage by many of its own technology providers. Despite billions invested in “revolutionary” platforms and “game-changing” solutions, most title agents are forced to live with a reality that forces them to juggle incompatible systems that don’t talk to each other, can’t adapt to real-life

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TransUnion data breach affects 4.4 million

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TransUnion publicly disclosed on Thursday that a cyber incident last month impacted more than 4.4 million people in the U.S. The breach, discovered on July 30, stemmed from unauthorized access to a third-party application that occurred on July 28, TransUnion said in a filing with the Maine attorney general. The company said the unauthorized access

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David Keener’s vision for Premiere Group at Real Brokerage

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On this week’s episode of the RealTrending podcast, Tracey Velt talks with David Keener, CEO of Premiere Group at The Real Brokerage. In just eight years, Premiere has grown to nearly 300 agents in 27 states and recently joined Real. Keener explains how the group’s member-owned teamerage model drives retention and shared success, as well

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RealReports, Doorify MLS announce AI-driven partnership

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RealReports has partnered with Doorify MLS — extending its property data and artificial intelligence (AI) tools to roughly 14,000 brokers and agents across five Realtor associations in and around North Carolina’s Research Triangle. The agreement gives Doorify subscribers access to the RealReports platform, which combines datasets such as tax history, zoning, permits, climate risk and

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The new smart home technology that’s helping seniors age in place

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About one in four Americans are at least 60 years old, and this group now outnumbers children in 11 states and in nearly half of all U.S. counties. Technological advancements are needed to serve a senior population that overwhelming prefers to age in place. Whether a client needs technology for life-saving reasons or mere convenience,

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A small Nigerian money-laundering scheme has big lessons for banks

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A federal jury in Puerto Rico on Tuesday convicted Oluwasegun Baiyewu, 37, of Richmond, Texas, in a money-laundering conspiracy stemming from wide-ranging wire, mail and device fraud schemes that funneled illicit funds to Nigerian transnational organized crime groups through car part auctions. While the total dollar value of the schemes is relatively small, prosecutors only cited

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