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Here's a video overview of a recently published article about Blend's growth as the technology backbone provider to huge banks and mortgage companies to offer single tap approval mobile applications. This is a HUGE threat to individual loan officers across the country. Watch this: Click Here To Join My Upcoming Training! 

As I continued researching for new information about the growing trend of iBuyers and the corporate takeover threatening real estate agents and loan officers across the country, I came across this presentation by Mike Del Prete at Inman Connect 2019. And in the middle of the presentation, he darn near blew me out of my seat when he described a much bigger and more profitable plan of Zillow's with their digital marketing platform. Watch This! Their control of online traffic and getting to clients first in the real estate process allows them to capture a lot of transactions that would…

Opendoor just formally acquired national title and escrow company, OS National, which previously was a partner company of Opendoor. Now OS National is a wholly owned subsidiary of Opendoor and further enhances their ability to control the entire process of the customer home buying and selling journey.   Opendoor clients can now buy and sell homes, get their mortgage loan financing and close the transaction including title search and title insurance all under the Opendoor umbrella of companies. Another scary development for individual loan officers and real estate agents who are battling to hold their positions against the onslaught of…

At the Inman Connect Las Vegas 2019 conference, Mike DelPrete, an entrepreneur, analyst and real estate industry strategic adviser, took to the stage to explain the seismic shifts shaking up the residential real estate market. The real estate industry has become the focus of venture capitalists and public investors who have given companies such as Compass, Opendoor, Redfin and Zillow plenty of capital to engage in long-term business strategies that make them unprofitable in the short term in the hopes that they’ll be be better positioned to edge into a cut of every transaction that goes on in the real…