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Zillow Names Buffalo As The Hottest Real Estate Market Of 2025. Here's Why The Snowy New York City Is Making Headlines
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 9:30am | 994Zillow has made its much-anticipated prediction for the hottest housing market of 2025. It's Buffalo, New York. That might raise a few eyebrows – as the snowy New York City on the Canadian border experienced years of unemployment and urban dereliction barely a decade ago. However, this marks the...
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$17 Billion Zillow To Become The MLS, Predicts Compass CEO In NAR Showdown
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 10:15am | 816Compass CEO Robert Reffkin predicts Zillow, worth around $17 billion, will eventually become the nation's de facto Multiple Listing Service (MLS). This shift would mark a significant change in real estate industry dynamics.Don't Miss: This Jeff Bezos-backed startup will allow you to become a...
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Homebuyers' Budgets Now Stretched 'To The Breaking Point': Zillow Says Monthly Payment On A Typical Home Soared 122% In 3 Years, But A 'Sweet Spot' For Buyers Could Arrive Soon
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 1:23pm | 674To combat rampant inflation in America, the Federal Reserve has implemented significant interest rate hikes since March 2022. As a result, mortgage rates have risen sharply, which can dampen the enthusiasm and purchasing power of potential homebuyers. According to online real estate marketplace...
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Taylor Swift's 'Cornelia Street' Inspiration: Here's Your Chance To Buy Or Rent The Iconic House
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 11:33am | 1108Bestselling musician Taylor Swift has made many headlines over the last several years with albums seeing record sales, singles topping the charts and a concert tour crashing websites due to ticket demand. Swift is making news once again, this time it's related to a home that inspired one of her...
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US Default Would Be a Lose-Lose for Housing, Predict Analysts: Mortgages to Surge 22%, Prices to Remain High
Friday, May 12, 2023 - 2:20am | 404In the event Congress fails to lift or suspend the debt ceiling which would cause the United States to default on its federal debt, mortgage rates could reach 8.4%, sending the mortgage payment on a typical home 22% higher by September, according to a projection by real estate marketplace company...
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Zillow's ChatGPT Plug-In: Your New AI House-Hunting Assistant Or Just Another Chatty Cathy?
Wednesday, May 3, 2023 - 7:50am | 493Zillow Group, Inc (NASDAQ:ZG), which runs a popular real estate website in the U.S., has announced a new chatGPT plug-in that promises to streamline the house-hunting process for users. What Happened: Zillow’s new house-hunting tool, a chatGPT plug-in, allows users to search for properties...
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Real Estate Agents Aren't Surprised Digital Brokers Like Redfin Are In Trouble
Monday, November 14, 2022 - 11:37am | 747One year ago, tech real estate marketplace Zillow Group Inc. (NASDAQ: Z) announced it was discontinuing its iBuyer division, eliminating its home-flipping business and cutting 25% of its workforce. This week, digital real estate brokerage Redfin Corp. (NASDAQ: RDFN) has done the same, shutting down...
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Fintech Focus For July 12, 2021
Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 10:02pm | 2090Quote To Start The Day: “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” Source: Barack Obama One Big Thing In Fintech: Robinhood...
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The Adoption Of Tech In The Real Estate Industry
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 - 1:30pm | 651The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. COVID-19 has had a massive impact on every industry in 2020. It has forced many to adapt and change practices that have been ingrained for...
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Fintech Focus For September 28, 2020
Sunday, September 27, 2020 - 6:42pm | 2058Quote Of The Day: If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. - Leo Tolstoy Fintech Movers: Both fintech and big tech credit seems to complement other forms of credit, rather than substitute for them, and may increase overall access to credit. - BIS Russia’s...
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Opendoor To Merge With SPAC At $4.8B Valuation: What You Need To Know
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - 11:47am | 444A deal between Social Capital Hedosophia Corp II (NYSE: IPOB) and Opendoor has officially been announced after being rumored last week. The Opendoor Deal: The two companies will merge, valuing Opendoor at $4.8 billion. The combined company will have over $1 billion in cash proceeds. A private...
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Zillow CEO On The Great Reshuffling: What This Could Mean For Real Estate Investing
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - 1:05pm | 570Stay-at-home orders have changed the way many of us see the workplace. Working from home has turned our homes into multi-purpose, all-in-one properties. We sleep, live, eat, workout, relax, and work from home. This new way of utilizing the home has caused what CEO of Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ: ZG)...
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Crude Oil Bounce Gives Energy Stock A Lift As Market Volatility Ebbs
Friday, April 24, 2020 - 10:05am | 1859In addition to some optimism from the House’s approval of a second round of funding aimed to help the economy, stock market participants also seem to be taking some cheer from the continued rebound in oil prices after a futures contract earlier in the week plunged into negative territory....
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'Zillow For Commercial': Biproxi Aims To Transform Commercial Real Estate With Algorithmic Data Platform
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 - 2:36pm | 562Gordon Smith, the founder and CEO at Biproxi, an end-to-end solution for the commercial real estate space, discussed increasing liquidity and defragmenting the middle market in an interview with Benzinga. How It Started In 2018, Biproxi was founded by a team of industry veterans that...
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How Peer-To-Peer Betting Could Make Sports Gambling More Lucrative
Friday, June 8, 2018 - 12:37pm | 574States may now be free to pursue legal sports betting, but due to high commissions, it's still a largely unprofitable venture for the bettor. The house still wins, but the development of a peer-to-peer betting network could ultimately decrease the commissions on bets that the house takes, which...