Flexibility drives new Real Brokerage affiliation models

As part of its ongoing effort to market alternatives to affiliating with legacy real estate brands, publicly traded The Real Brokerage has announced two new forms of partnership, Private Label and ProTeams.

Zillow reappoints venture capitalist Bill Gurley to board

Gurley joins Zillow at a time when the portal giant is under pressure to evolve and deliver on its promise to create a housing super app.

65% of millennials would still buy a home if interest rates were 10%

Interest rates are poised to fall in 2024 — a piece of much-needed news for the millions of would-be buyers and sellers who’ve been locked out of the market after an extraordinary rise in rates from 2022 to 2023. However, if burgeoning economic tailwinds twist another way, a new Clever Real Estate survey published Tuesday […]

CoreLogic fights MLS cyberthreats with Clareity Assure

Adaptive authentication is at the heart of the system, a form of user identification that applies at random one of many factors to verify the request for access, such as location, device status and even the individual’s recent online behavior.

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 10, 2024

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

CES 2024: All the Coolest (and Weirdest) Gaming Gear We Saw

When you get into gaming, you likely won’t just shop for the essential hardware, like graphics cards and mice with extra buttons. Before you know it, you’ll be Googling gaming chairs and headsets and light-up keyboards. CES 2024 kicked things up a notch, debuting a wide variety of innovative gaming tech—some of which is legitimately […]

CES 2024: ASUS’s Latest Gaming Phone Is Thinner and Lighter Than Ever Before

During CES 2024, ASUS debuted quite a few things, including new PC components designed to make building a PC even easier. Perhaps one of the most exciting announcements, though, was the reveal of its ROG Phone 8 series, which will blend lighter, slimmer designs with the powerful gaming potential of the ROG lineup. The ROG […]

CES 2024: Smart Tech Aims to Be Number One in Your Bathroom

Every smart-tech brand makes robot vacuums and security cams, but until recently, the bathroom has been mysteriously absent from the smart home ecosystem. Brands have dabbled, sure, but it was a lot of touch faucets and not a lot of legit smart functionality. CES 2024 is shifting that narrative, with lots of innovations that might […]

Here’s How I’m Growing My Portfolio This Year—And How You Can Too

Building a portfolio strategy doesn’t have to be difficult. It just requires a little thought and time. Here’s how I’m expanding my portfolio this year.

Four Dates All Student Loan Borrowers Should Know in 2024

After 2023’s emotional rollercoaster of student loan news, 2024 is shaping up to be another important year for federal student loan borrowers. Some of these student loan forgiveness initiatives are approaching key deadlines or cutoff dates, while other programs are just getting started. Student loans have a chokehold over millions of Americans, but you have […]

CES 2024: Samsung Is Going All-In on SmartThings

Like a lot of people, I’ve got an old SmartThings hub hanging around, powering one or two aged smart devices. But recently, I cracked open the SmartThings app for the first time in years, and discovered Samsung has been making some moves in the background—with more to come, it seems. If the Samsung presentation at […]

How to Delete Your Gmail Account (Without Losing Your Data)

It’s valuable to have more than one email address, but it’s also good to know when one needs to go. Deleting a Gmail address is easy to do, but there are a few things you should be aware of and do before you go through with it—especially if you want to hold onto some of […]

15 Movies No One Should Ever Watch With Their Parents

The film Saltburn didn’t exactly set the world on fire when it was released in theaters around Thanksgiving last year, but it garnered some strong awards buzz for actor Barry Keoghan’s fearless performance.  When it premiered on Prime Video just in time for winter break, however, it blew up on social media for entirely different reasons. News […]

How Starting Your Day With a ‘Brain Dump’ Can Make You More Productive

Have you ever woken up and been filled with immediate dread because the day ahead of you is so busy? It happens to me all the time and is, frankly, a miserable way to greet the morning. It simply does not set you up to have a positive experience. There’s a way to quickly right […]

How to Reset an AirTag to Pair With a New Apple ID

Apple AirTags attach to all sorts of things—your keys, purse, luggage, even your pet’s collar—but for all their versatility as tiny tracking devices, AirTags can only be associated with one Apple ID at a time. That’s fine if you’re the only one using the AirTag, and makes it difficult for someone to steal or tamper […]