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Home Trust Offers Mortgage Clients Digital Banking Via Platform
September 05, 2023

FinTech firm ebankIT, in collaboration with Home Trust, launched a digital platform to offer seamless and integrated user experiences to Home Trust’s mortgage clients, according to a Tuesday (Sept. 5) press release announcing the launch. The new Home Digital experience, powered by ebankIT’s omnichannel banking...

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Nearly 60% of Real Estate Firms Say Legacy Back Office Stalls Real-Time Payments Adoption
August 30, 2023

Real estate firms realize that adopting faster payment methods can help forge stronger vendor-supplier partnerships, which play a critical role in shaping the industry’s business-to-business (B2B) payments landscape. In fact, 90% of those surveyed plan to start receiving payments in real time within the next...

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Real Estate Sector Falls Behind in Real-Time Payments Adoption
August 24, 2023

In today’s digital era, it seems almost quaint that an industry as essential as real estate relies so heavily on paper checks, given current rates of mailbox fraud and other uncertainties such as delivery reliability.  However, the continued use of old-fashioned — some could say outdated — payment methods...

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NYC Airbnb Hosts Scrub Listings Ahead of New Rules
August 22, 2023

Finding an Airbnb in New York City is getting more challenging. That’s because hosts are scrubbing listings to comply with a city-imposed deadline, while the company is moving to prevent future bookings, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Aug. 22).  Hosts are scrambling to be...

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Medical Properties Trust Says Regulator’s Hold on Transaction ‘Deemed Immaterial’
August 18, 2023

A California state regulator has ordered a hold on a transaction between Medical Properties Trust (MPT) and Prospect Medical Holdings. The deal, which aimed to provide crucial financial support for Prospect Medical Holdings, one of MPT’s major tenants, was put on hold on July 20 by the California...

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PropMix Offers Appraisal and Mortgage Firms Keys to ‘AI Innovation Garage’
August 07, 2023

Real estate and mortgage AI platform PropMix says it wants to help its sector modernize its products. To that end, the company on Monday (Aug. 7) debuted the “AI Innovation Garage for Appraisal Management Companies and Mortgage Lenders,” offered in partnership with the Innovation Incubator and designed to...

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Janover Adds Email to AI-Based Agent on Financing Marketplace
July 31, 2023

Janover has added email capabilities to the artificial intelligence (AI) agent on its business-to-business (B2B) marketplace connecting commercial real estate borrowers and lenders. Along with email, the AI-based agent already communicates via chat, voice and text, the company said in a Monday (July 31) press...

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Office Space Inventory in US Sees First Net Decline
July 27, 2023

The U.S. office market is in uncharted territory as the amount of office space has declined for what is likely the first time in history. Less than 5 million square feet of new offices broke ground in the U.S. so far this year, while 14.7...

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White House Demands Transparency From Rental Housing Platforms
July 19, 2023

The White House says three major housing platforms have agreed to provide more transparency to prospective renters. Zillow, Apartments.com, and AffordableHousing.com will begin giving consumers the total of upfront cost of rental properties, President Joe Biden’s administration said Wednesday (July 19) as it announced its latest initiative to tackle “junk...