CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, June 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has named Pearl as a KeyCrew Verified Expert. Pearl will contribute market intelligence and expert analysis on home performance data, real estate transparency, and the evolving standards shaping how buyers, agents, and homeowners evaluate residential properties across the U.S. KeyCrew Verified ...
Real estate professionals handle some of the most sensitive client data in any industry: financial records, government-issued IDs, property valuations, and legal correspondence, yet many independent brokerages still rely on informal security habits that leave them dangerously exposed. With cybercrime against mid-market businesses rising sharply, here are the tools every real estate office should have ...
Tradespeople can now search any address before quoting a job and see what other contractors experienced there, with over 1,000 contractor sign-ups during soft launch NEW YORK, July 15, 2026 – JobSite Recon today announced the official launch of its contractor-to-customer review platform, now available on both iOS and Android. The platform, which lets tradespeople ...
The mismatch between how MLS systems were built and how new construction actually works has created challenges for builders, agents, and buyers for years, and the industry has only recently begun to address it. A Structural Mismatch For as long as multiple listing services have existed, new construction has been an awkward fit, according to ...
When a commercial real estate investor acquires a property, they review the financials, inspect the physical structure, and work through environmental assessments. What almost no one does is audit the digital infrastructure. According to Bill Douglas, CEO of OpticWise, that oversight is leaving buyers with surprise costs, inherited vendor lock-in, and operating systems nobody fully ...
Most second-home owners believe their property is fine when they are away. They have smart locks, a Nest thermostat, maybe a security camera pointed at the front door. What they often do not have is a person who physically walks through the home on a regular schedule and knows what to look for. According to ...
The advanced air mobility sector spent years treating aircraft certification as its central challenge. While Archer’s timeline may slip to 2028, Joby appears to be progressing faster and is targeting certification by late 2026. But according to Lisa Wright, founder of Landings and a real estate professional building a vertiport network across rural North America, ...
Most active real estate investors treat origination fees as a fixed cost of doing business. Each deal, another percentage of the loan amount leaves at closing. But homebldr, a technology-driven investment financing platform, has launched a product with no real equivalent in the market: a financing subscription that eliminates homebldr origination fees entirely for 12 ...
There is a version of commercial real estate prospecting that takes days. Research a target property, identify the LLC, track down the individual behind it, find a phone number, find an email, then write an outreach message tailored to that specific owner and asset. Multiply that by twenty properties and you are looking at a ...
BOCA RATON, FL – June 29, 2026 – Builders Update, one of North America’s leading providers of new construction inventory data, has officially joined the GDX – Global Data Exchange network. The partnership gives builders access to an international audience of real estate professionals, MLSs, and investors – expanding the reach of new construction inventory ...
Asset managers are financial experts. They run forecasts, analyze NOI, manage CapEx budgets, and answer to investors. But according to Bill Douglas, CEO of OpticWise, there’s a growing problem hiding in plain sight: the data they use to make decisions is often incomplete, delayed, and filtered before it ever reaches them. “Asset managers are financial ...
For thirty years, Mike Simon worked inside the real estate services industry. He watched title reps, loan officers, and insurance professionals buy one data platform after another, load CRMs with historical MLS transactions and agent histories, and then mostly ignore them. Not because the data was bad. Because data, on its own, does not tell ...
TUCSON, AZ, June 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has selected Tony Ray Baker, Realtor and Team Leader at REMAX Fine Properties, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert. Tony Ray will contribute market intelligence and expert analysis on residential real estate across Tucson, Oro Valley, Marana, Sahuarita, Catalina, Vail and Green ...
In a market where inventory is tight and every listing carries real stakes, agents are looking beyond the standard marketing playbook. Professional photography, virtual tours, and social media posts have become table stakes. What’s shifting is where agents are allocating their remaining budget, and a growing number are turning to streaming, otherwise known as connected ...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 2026 – State energy offices, municipalities, and utilities invest billions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars each year through efficiency rebates, weatherization, electrification, and the federal Home Energy Rebate programs. But once the work is done, evidence of the upgrade is buried in rebate files, and program records the housing market never sees. ...
