March 2026

As brokerage giants merge, Real Estate One bets on the power of local platforms

During a recent conversation about industry consolidation at Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE)’s annual event, Dan Elsea paused to reflect on the growth of his company. There was no sweeping strategy session and no consultants mapping out the future of the brokerage. Instead, the CEO and owner of Real Estate One Family […]

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Corcoran Reverie, Housify form luxury valuation partnership

Florida-based Corcoran Reverie has announced an exclusive partnership with property valuation and analytics platform Housify. The platform draws on more than 15 years of transactional data, market trends and proprietary engineering to produce highly localized property valuations. Housify’s system analyzes multiple data sources — including local MLS information, county GIS records and property appraiser data

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Newrez is waiving lender title insurance on some refis

Multichannel mortgage lender Newrez has launched Newrez TitlePass for use in its wholesale channel, giving mortgage brokers a way to waive the lender title insurance requirement on certain refinance loans. This could potentially save borrowers hundreds or thousands of dollars in closing costs, the company said Monday. The program is offered exclusively through Newrez’s affiliated

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