real estate

Swollen Retail Inventories Leave Small Businesses Short on Warehouse Space
Swollen Retail Inventories Leave Small Businesses Short on Warehouse Space
October 05, 2022  |  Retail

A glut of inventory for America’s big retailers has left small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the country scrambling to find warehouse space. Real estate...

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Retail Vacancy Rate Hits 15-Year Low
Retail Vacancy Rate Hits 15-Year Low
October 04, 2022  |  Retail

Retail vacancies in the United States dropped to 6.1% in the second quarter, a 15-year low, as Americans continued to resume in-store shopping. Asking rents...

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Amazon Encourages Customer Service Staff to Work From Home
Amazon Encourages Customer Service Staff to Work From Home
September 28, 2022  |  Amazon

Amazon has been encouraging customer service employees to work from home to help save money on real estate, Bloomberg wrote. The shift is part of...

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Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts Can Cut Escrow Costs, Prevent Mortgage Fraud
Blockchain-Based Smart Contracts Can Cut Escrow Costs, Prevent Mortgage Fraud
September 28, 2022  |  Blockchain

When talking about crypto’s use in real estate, most people think about buying and selling property with bitcoins or tokenizing and fractionalizing property titles via...

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Fannie Mae Debuts Rent Reporting to Boost Credit Scores
Fannie Mae Debuts Rent Reporting to Boost Credit Scores
September 27, 2022  |  Real Estate

Fannie Mae has rolled out its Multifamily Positive Rent Payment Reporting program to help renters build credit history and improve their scores, a company press...

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Opendoor Business Model Flaw Drives Losses on 42% of August Deals
Opendoor Business Model Flaw Drives Losses on 42% of August Deals
September 19, 2022  |  Real Estate

Opendoor Technologies reported it lost money on 42% of transactions in August as the U.S. housing market falters for builders, flippers and others looking to...

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Today in B2B Payments: Tech Tackles X-Border Payments, SaaS Billing
Today in B2B Payments: Tech Tackles X-Border Payments, SaaS Billing
September 14, 2022  |  B2B Payments

Today in B2B payments, LianLian Global adds a cross-border payments guarantee to China, while Maxio launches a one-stop solution for Software-as-a-Service companies’ billing and financial...

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Real Estate Firms Face Challenges, Opportunities in Digitizing Disbursements
Real Estate Firms Face Challenges, Opportunities in Digitizing Disbursements
September 14, 2022  |  Disbursements

Even before the pandemic, there was already an inexorable shift taking place within payments. And yet, depending on where you look, there’s still a few...

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B2B Payments Firm Bottomline Buys Nexus Systems to Grow in Real Estate
B2B Payments Firm Bottomline Buys Nexus Systems to Grow in Real Estate
September 13, 2022  |  Acquisitions

B2B payments FinTech company Bottomline has purchased procure-to-pay platform Nexus Systems, extending its capabilities into the real estate vertical. Nexus Systems provides accounts payable (AP)...

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