Tech Roundup: Digital Lending, AARP Benefits & New Land Listing Site
Minute Mortgage Launches a Fully Digital Lending Experience for the Modern Home Buyer
Minute Mortgage, Arizona’s newest mortgage company, has released an integrated digital lending platform that offers a virtual mortgage experience for today’s online-savvy consumer. Minute Mortgage’s streamlined process eliminates 80% of the work required by customers and loan officers, making it possible for the company to close loans faster than traditional mortgage lenders. https://minutemortgage.com/.
Realogy Announces Real Estate Benefits Program for AARP Members
Realogy Holdings Corp. announced an agreement to create a new real estate benefits program for AARP members. Expected to launch nationally in early 2020, this will be the first-ever real estate services program designed for the nearly 38 million AARP members. The new offering will allow AARP members to earn a cashback reward or bonus when they buy or sell a home with one of Realogy’s trusted residential real estate brands, including Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, Century 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Corcoran®, ERA®, and Sotheby’s International Realty®.
LandHub® Launches New Land Listing Website
LandHub, (https://www.landhub.com), a real estate marketing company, has launched its new land listing website. LandHub is a land listing and marketing platform that was launched in 2016 with the mission of efficiently connecting buyers and sellers in the dynamic real estate market. “We’re excited to re-launch a website that makes searching for land easier and less time-consuming. Buyers can set up free profiles and get alerts of new properties, and sellers can feed their listings directly to our portal where we’ll help market them on social media.
You keep hearing the buzz words CREtech (commercial real estate technology), REtech (real estate technology), PropTech or Proptology (property technology) and about all the venture capital flowing into these spaces. Many brokers feel that the Co-Star Group has created a monopoly with the purchase of most of the other land listing sites and our goal is to offer a more cost-effective platform with no long-term commitments,” said Kevin May, President, and CEO of LandHub.
Florida Realtors® Tech Helpline Now Available to Support Tech Firms
“How is your tech support?” is one of the most challenging questions nearly every tech startup must address successfully to land new clients. Now, technology firms have the opportunity to answer the question with confidence by engaging real estate’s number one technology support service, Tech Helpline, to provide customer support. Tech Helpline, dubbed “the Genius Bar” for real estate, today offers tech support by phone, chat or email to nearly half of the REALTORS® in the U.S. and Canada.
More than 600,000 real estate professionals have access to Tech Helpline, a service created and owned by Florida Realtors. With a U.S.-based staff of tech analysts that have some 300 years of combined IT experience, Tech Helpline offers technical support services in both English and Spanish. Agents and brokers receive a wide range of expert technical assistance, covering both software and hardware issues, including smartphones, laptops, tablets, desktops, printers, computer and smartphone crashes, email setup problems, virus infections, recovery of lost files, wireless connections issues and more. More information about Tech Helpline also is available online at www.techhelpline.com.
Real Launches Elite Agent Attraction Program
Real (joinreal.com) launched today a new revenue sharing program in 19 US states and Washington DC that provides real estate agents with the opportunity to earn substantial income by attracting other real estate agents to Real. Real’s Elite Agent Attraction program also offers agents stock option awards once the agents they attract close their first transaction with Real.
Together, the revenue sharing and stock options programs are intended to provide real estate agents, who work as independent contractors, two additional revenue streams to supplement their own commission earnings and build financial security. Real is a national, digital real estate brokerage. For more information on Real’s Elite Agent Attraction program, please contact join@joinreal.com.