Disruption!
I don’t know, maybe selling a home these days is just getting too darn complicated. All I know is that two, three, and soon, four of these iBuyer startups are now in town and doing pretty well based on the philosophy that consumers in lower-priced homes are willing to forego some profit in order to get rid…
Read MoreIt seems all the real estate disruptors are coming here, to North Texas, thanks to our healthy market. That’s why, today, a real estate platform called Bungalo is launching in Dallas and in Tampa, Florida. Bungalo focuses exclusively on the home-buying process and aims to give consumers a digital, streamlined, seamless i-buying experience. Hear them out: I…
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Opendoor, Open Listings, open sesame to way more disruption in the real estate world. You know about the fast growing, fast-expanding home selling and buying company Opendoor. Launched in the Bay area in 2014, with Dallas as its second focus group city, OpenDoor has raised $645 million in equity financing, has $1.75 billion in debt,…
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I’m sure you caught the Dallas Morning News‘ recent declaration that the start-up discount brokerage Door, while on a tear, is not yet really fully disrupting the buying and selling of real estate. At least not here, not yet. I’m off to Inman in San Francisco, so let’s talk next week. But it’s interesting that the…
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So much information was jam-packed into last week’s National Association of Real Estate Editor’s Spring Conference. Bethany, Jon and I were all in attendance and working to bring you what we learned. Throughout this week, I’ll post what I thought were some of the most significant graphs. The biggest take-aways: disruption, i-buyers, availability, affordability, technology,…
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