Author name: Ricky Vasquez

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How Valon and Carrington plan to crack a servicing tech duopoly

One of 2026’s latest acquisition deals involves two companies eyeing growth — one through addition and the other via the sale of assets, allowing it to focus on its core mission since inception.   Processing Content The May deal between Valon Technologies and Carrington Mortgage Services spotlights two running themes in the current wave of mergers […]

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Why Taylor Morrison’s integration playbook matters in builder M&A

Flashback Shortly after Sheryl Palmer became chief executive officer of Taylor Morrison in 2007, I met with her in Scottsdale, Arizona, to discuss a challenge that would have intimidated many experienced homebuilding leaders. The company she had inherited was not merely navigating the early stages of what would become the worst housing downturn in modern

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Cloze Forge platform lets real estate firms ‘vibe code’ custom tools

Cloze announced Cloze Forge at the 1000WATT Signal conference on Tuesday. It’s a new platform allowing real estate brokerages to build and deploy fully branded digital tools without needing an internal development team. Cloze says Forge enables firms to “vibe-code” custom apps through its Forge Studio tool, powered by Cloze’s unified brokerage data layer, including

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