Outamation, an AI-native mortgage operations technology company, is improving the process to help loan servicers identify performing borrowers who are good candidates for a loan modification by now offering Equifax® consumer credit data integrated into OutamateMods. In today’s rate environment, refinance activity is low, but that will change once rates fall. To prepare for a ...
Sam DeBord, CEO of RESO, the Real Estate Standards Organization, will deliver a keynote at the 4th International MLS Forum, November 16-17, 2026, at Raffles Istanbul in Istanbul, Türkiye. His topic is the trillion-dollar question. Over $1 trillion in real estate is purchased every year by people who don’t live in the country where they’re ...
A home that passes inspection can still have room to improve how efficiently it heats, how comfortable it feels in summer, and how well it is sealed against outdoor air. According to Kat Cahill, Growth Marketing Director at Pearl, that distinction highlights an opportunity. It reflects the difference between what a home inspection is designed ...
Curb appeal shows a buyer a home’s charm, while whether it stays comfortable in August comes down to factors beneath the surface. According to Kat Cahill, Growth Marketing Director at Pearl, two homes that look nearly identical from the street can deliver very different living experiences once temperatures climb or drop. The factors that determine ...
A homeowner who installs a high-efficiency HVAC system, seals the ductwork, upgrades attic insulation, or adds a whole-home water filtration system has improved both year-round comfort and the total cost of homeownership. According to Kat Cahill, Growth Marketing Director at Pearl, there is a real opportunity for those improvements to shine in the listing. In ...
As Kansas communities prepare to vote on data center bans, the real estate platform says payrolls, not capital spending, should guide housing decisions across the metro KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Oct., 2026) Dissonant Capital, a vertically integrated real estate investment platform, today urged housing builders, lenders and local officials in the Kansas City metro to separate ...
Production rankings are easy to advertise, but they reveal little about how a home will actually be marketed, shown, and negotiated. For many homeowners in Orlando, Florida, choosing a listing agent starts with one question: who sells the most? Production rankings, awards, and “top producer” titles are easy to find and easy to compare. According ...
Buyers often price repairs at several times their actual cost. An Orlando-area broker explains how sellers can decide what is worth addressing. When buyers tour a home in Orlando, Florida, they are not only looking at what is there. They are also adding up what they think will need to be fixed, and that mental ...
The CIPS instructor and NAR Global Ambassador begins his Los Cabos practice with properties at Puerto Los Cabos in San José del Cabo. CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico – October 3, 2026 – Ed Eakin, a Texas real estate broker and Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS), has relocated full-time to Los Cabos, where his firm, Eakin ...
New service pre-screens and underwrites available self storage listings against each buyer’s acquisition criteria [CITY, ST] – October, 2026 – The De Jong Self Storage Team at Colliers has launched a dedicated buy-side representation service for investors acquiring self storage assets, expanding the team’s long-standing listing and advisory work. Led by Executive Vice President and ...
For years, the largest self-storage REITs used web rate discounting as a way to capture market share and fill vacant units. That strategy created a two-tier pricing market in which institutional operators advertised rates more than 20% below where independent operators were pricing comparable units, according to Tom de Jong, Executive Vice President at Colliers. ...
The pandemic-era self-storage construction boom created a distinctive opportunity in secondary and tertiary markets: a fresh supply of newer facilities whose performance depends closely on how well their scale aligns with the local population. According to Tom de Jong, Executive Vice President at Colliers, a pattern he has encountered repeatedly involves 100,000 square feet of ...
As commercial real estate buyers reopen deals signed earlier this year, Kaufman & Company says sellers, builders and communities need partners whose underwriting does not hinge on the next rate move. LOS ANGELES (Oct., 2026) Daniel Kaufman, founder and CEO of Kaufman & Company, the family office and permanent capital holding company, said today that ...
Factory-built and vendor-agnostic, Project Zero is the first working piece of a platform that also includes hyperscale campuses in predevelopment in El Paso, Texas, and Utah. LOS ANGELES (Oct., 2026) Kaufman & Company, the permanent capital holding company founded by real estate investor Daniel Kaufman, today detailed ZeroPoint, its platform for developing the physical infrastructure ...
Discussions of housing legislation tend to center on density: how many units a parcel can carry, how tall a building can go, how much floor area a site will support. Those numbers matter, and they are the ones that make headlines. For anyone actually underwriting a development in Honolulu, though, a different variable carries more ...
