• Portals and brokerages escalate real estate vertical integration race,Dean DiCarlo

    Portals and brokerages escalate real estate vertical integration race

    The modern battlefield offers a lesson in real estate vertical integration. Look around. Rocket bought Redfin. Compass combined with Anywhere to become the country’s largest brokerage, north of 340,000 agents. Zillow is fighting over listing access. Homes.com is still buying its way to portal releva

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  • ARA adds REMAX president Chris Lim to board,Brooklee Han, HousingWire Automation

    ARA adds REMAX president Chris Lim to board

    The American Real Estate Association (ARA) has added REMAX president and chief growth officer Chris Lim and investor Andrew Dodge to its board of directors, expanding its leadership, according to an announcement on Thursday.  As part of the move, ARA will provide all REMAX agents in the United State

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  • Finding meaning in a busy world: The modern originator’s path to pursuit, purpose, passion and peace,Brian Covey

    Finding meaning in a busy world: The modern originator’s path to pursuit, purpose, passion and peace

    The mortgage industry has never been short on movement. In just the past decade, we’ve seen the rise and fall of companies, shifts in market leadership, the emergence of new technology and the kind of disruption that forces every originator to stop and ask: What am I really building? We’re operating

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