prnewswire | August 25, 2020
Home prices and year-over-year price gains hit another high as prices continued to rise during a time of year that they usually decline, according to a new report from Redfin (www.redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Pending home sales are also way up from 2019. The fact that the market is so steady continues to be a surprising sign of strength during a time of major economic uncertainty. For the week ending August 16, the seasonally adjusted Redfin Homebuyer Demand Index was up 29% from pre-pandemic levels in January and February. Prices are still showing no signs of the typical seasonal slowdown. The median price of homes that sold during the four-week period ending August 16 was up 11% year over year—the largest increase in over six years—to a new all-time high of $316,375. In the last week of the period, prices were up 14% from a year earlier.
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REAL ESTATE TECHNOLOGY
Realogics Sotheby's International Realty | April 29, 2021
Today, Realogics Sotheby's International Realty (RSIR) brokers Michele Schuler and Neda Perrina took to Instagram Live to reveal another essential organization that hoists their customer care across Seattle, the Eastside, Bainbridge Island, and past. At 12:30 pm PST, devotees tuned in for insider understanding on the development of their business, perceptions on the present quick market, and to meet their recently selected colleagues.
As establishing individuals from the RSIR lead office in midtown Bellevue and top-creating brokers in the firm, Schuler, and Perrina accomplished more than $87M in aggregate deals in 2020.
"After our individual victories a year ago, Neda and I were both seeing how to additionally elevate our administrations, and it just clicked," says Schuler. "We are currently situated to take advantage of both of our circles and give twofold the openness and advantage for our customers."
Drawing upon 18 years of joined land insight, Schuler and Perrina have set up center skills in private home deals, new development and manufacturer administrations, and movement talking with an accentuation on the area's flourishing tech area. To add a layer of help, Schuler and Perrina delegated Samantha Schwartz as a committed purchaser's agent and Lexie Rogers as a customer administrations chief to help to sell customers in situating their homes available to be purchased.
"In recognizing our objectives, we decided an unmistakable requirement for extra essential help, which is the place where Samantha and Lexie come in," Perrina adds. "We perceive that we are more grounded together and our customers are as of now beginning to feel it—we've effectively joined forces on a few exchanges in 2021 and anticipate some more."
Giving passageways to a more extensive scope of demographics was a critical foundation in setting up the group dynamic. Schuler and Perrina each repeated this slant during the declaration occasion, addressing the additional help for purchasers and dealers, and top-level assistance that traverses each value point, from starter homes to climb purchasers, second home objections, and downsizers.
"We anticipate having discussions with current and planned customers about our common obligation to remarkable help and welcome the chance to examine everything land," Schuler and Perrina note.
About Realogics Sotheby's International Realty
Realogics Sotheby's International Realty (RSIR) is a main worldwide deals and marketing business firm in the Pacific Northwest. The shop land firm of 300+ dynamic brokers administration branches in midtown Seattle, Bainbridge Island, Kirkland, Madison Park, and downtown Bellevue.
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SmartZip | May 11, 2021
SmartZip is eager to declare that they will join Chainlink's market-driving decentralized prophet network by dispatching their Chainlink hub. The Chainlink hub fills in as secure blockchain middleware that makes existing SmartZip APIs viable across driving blockchain networks.
Through this new Chain Link hub, SmartZip can supply their exclusive land information including property costs, rental rates, provincial patterns, and prescient evaluating models to blockchain applications (also known as brilliant agreements). Furthermore, the Chainlink hub cryptographically signs all information communicated on the blockchain, giving clients cryptographic confirmation of the information's respectability as beginning from a SmartZip API.
The Chainlink hub not just grows SmartZip's compass as an information supplier by broadening their top-notch datasets into arising blockchain markets, yet arrangements new sorts of land items and markets. Engineers can utilize SmartZip's information to create information-driven shrewd agreement applications that settle expectation markets based on future house estimations, ascertain the worth of NFTs that address land, or supply confided in benchmarks before executing exchanges of tokenized properties.
SmartZip Expanding Services to the Chainlink Network
SmartZip's exclusive prescient examination model totals information from 24 sources and contains more than 1 billion information focuses on private land, including modern market valuations, rental wages and other key information focuses.
With blockchain's capacity to both digitize land as tokenized resources and lessen mediator failures in the business, there is a developing chance to bring SmartZip's exceptional land information on-chain and backing these new business sectors. Since blockchains are deliberately disengaged from outside frameworks to guarantee their security and dependability, savvy contracts have no inherent ability to get to off-chain SmartZip API information. This absence of outside availability requires the utilization of an extra piece of foundation known as a blockchain prophet to bring outer API information into blockchain networks.
Chainlink, the most broadly embraced prophet network in the blockchain business, offers a dependable, industry-standard prophet answer for making SmartZip's land information open to a tremendous pool of savvy contract engineers. Chainlink gives various highlights that put it aside from different arrangements, for example,
• Information Signing - The Chainlink hub cryptographically signs each piece of information SmartZip posts on-chain, forestalling man-in-the-center assaults and expanding its unwavering quality in mechanizing contract results.
• Blockchain Agnostic - The Chainlink hub is blockchain-skeptic, furnishing SmartZip with a solitary entryway to offer information to any current and future blockchain.
• Enormous Market - Chainlink is the most broadly utilized prophet arrangement in the keen agreement economy, giving a huge and developing business sector of potential information customers.
• Secure Infrastructure - Chainlink is completely reviewed open-source programming that all in all gets billions of dollars in esteem on mainnet, demonstrating its capacity to ensure and trigger the development of genuine monetary worth.
"Chainlink offers SmartZip a speedy, simple, and secure answer for progressing our present API foundation to help blockchain networks," said Robert Reardon, General Manager of SmartZip. "In addition to the fact that this opens up new income streams in a developing business sector, yet it's a future-evidence arrangement that can undoubtedly scale to help an assortment of new blockchains and applications. This saves us a lot of time and assets while presenting our information to another decentralized economy."
Joining the Chainlink Network as a hub administrator permits SmartZip to partake in the developing savvy contract economy by giving premium information to new types of decentralized and transparently available housing markets. As more land advances to blockchains, SmartZip's information can uphold a developing assortment of new applications, for example, the land being utilized as security in decentralized account (DeFi) items to get advances or property-put together NFTs that exchange concerning decentralized trades (DEXs).
About SmartZip
Smart zip is the head of prescient examination in the land. With Smartzip, engineers can undoubtedly coordinate the most extensive land data set into their applications including property estimations, rental rates, probability of selling, and much more.SmartZip is important for the Constellation Real Estate Group, an arrangement of vertical market programming organizations inside Constellation Software, Inc. The Constellation Real Estate Group gains and puts resources into innovation organizations in the land vertical that is focused on giving inventive, long-haul arrangements and associations to the clients they serve.
About Chainlink
Chainlink is the most generally utilized and secure approach to control all-around associated brilliant agreements. With Chainlink, engineers can interface any blockchain with excellent information sources from other blockchains just as genuine information. Overseen by a worldwide, decentralized local area of a huge number of individuals, Chainlink is presenting a more pleasant model for contracts. Its organization as of now gets billions of dollars in incentive for brilliant agreements across the decentralized money (DeFi), protection, and gaming environments, among others.
Chainlink is trusted by many associations to convey authoritative truth through secure, solid information takes care of.
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