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Cotality hires Jason Nicosia to lead national real estate solutions

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Cotality has hired residential real estate and proptech veteran Jason Nicosia as senior principal of national real estate solutions, the company announced Thursday. In the senior leadership role, Nicosia will serve as a strategic adviser to Cotality’s enterprise real estate clients, helping align the company’s data and technology products with clients’ long-term business goals and […]

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FSBO.com launches loan officer portal for consumer-directed listings

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FSBO.com on Wednesday announced the launch of a new loan officer portal designed to integrate mortgage professionals earlier into the for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) home selling process, as the company looks to create a more structured and collaborative transaction model. The platform allows loan officers to assist sellers with listing creation, marketing and buyer screening, while also

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How fraud gets stopped in its tracks by real estate and title pros

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Real estate fraud has evolved rapidly, and professionals across the industry already recognize that today’s schemes are more complex and convincing than ever. What has changed most is the scale — driven by artificial intelligence (AI) that can generate realistic emails, cloned voices and even live deepfake video impersonations of buyers, sellers or agents. In

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Why AI is still a subpar real estate agent replacement

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I recently got a question from Real Estate Writer Michele Lerner for Florida Realtor magazine that cut right to the chase of this technological moment: Can AI replace real estate agents?⁣ Here’s my answer: Not yet. And maybe not ever, but not because I’m anti-tech. Quite the opposite. I’m an early adopter. I love tools

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Busy isn’t productive: How top real estate agents should actually allocate their time

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For years, real estate rewarded one thing above all else: activity. More calls. More showings. More emails. More hours. The assumption was simple: if you stay busy enough, the results will follow. But that equation is starting to break. Clients are more informed. Deals take longer. Expectations are higher. Time, not opportunity, has become the

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What Artemis II can teach every real estate agent about building a career that goes the distance

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On April 6, 2026, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II mission did something no human being had ever done in the history of our species. They traveled 252,756 miles from Earth, shattering a record that had stood since 1970, when the crew of Apollo 13 was pushed to that distance not by triumph, but by

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NAR fine-tunes its 3-year plan, fast-tracking execution and trimming governance

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The National Association of Realtors (NAR) released its first quarterly update on the 2026–2028 Strategic Plan on Tuesday, outlining early progress on initiatives tied to affordable housing, the Realtor brand and broker relationships. In the first quarter of implementation, NAR said it initiated about two-thirds of the projects outlined in the three-year plan, which was

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FirstTeam to pre-market listings with Zillow Preview

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Independent real estate brokerage FirstTeam has joined Zillow Preview, allowing its agents and their sellers to publicly pre-market listings on Zillow and Trulia before they go active.  The Newport Beach, California-based firm said the agreement turns pre-market visibility into a prospecting and growth channel for its agents, who can now reach buyers at the earliest

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Home inspection trends reshaping the 2026 housing market

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The home inspection industry is undergoing a quiet shift that directly impacts mortgage origination timelines, closing procedures, and lender risk assessment. As the owner of an inspection company, with over 3,000 inspections completed across Texas’s fastest-growing markets, I’m seeing trends that fundamentally reshape how lenders, agents, and buyers approach the inspection phase of the transaction.

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RealTrends Verified top performers prove there’s no one way to scale

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While many of the same real estate firms may grace the top echelons of the RealTrends Verified Rankings year after year, that is where, at least for many of these firms, the similarities between them end. From cloud-based to franchise networks, specializations and network approaches the top performing firms include a variety of different business

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