GeoPhy, a fast-growing company in commercial real estate technology, has launched Evra, a new AI-powered valuation platform. With Evra, commercial real estate investors, lenders and researchers can quickly access GeoPhy’s automated valuation model for accurate, transparent valuations for U.S....
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Entitle Insurance Company Changes Name
National title insurance underwriter EnTitle Insurance Company has changed its name to Radian Title Insurance Inc. The company, acquired by Radian in 2018, is consistent with Radian’s strategy of uniting all of its subsidiaries under the One Radian brand. Through its family of companies, Radian...
RealPage Releases AI Screening
RealPage, Inc. has introduced RealPage® AI Screening, the first AI-based screening algorithm built specifically for the multifamily apartment rental industry. The solution, developed by RealPage Resident Screening and Data Science teams is designed to enable property management companies to...
Civic Financial Services Launches Rental Program
Civic Financial Services has released its new rental program, designed for real estate investors who are focused on aggregating rental properties. The program includes 5/1, 7/1 and 10/1 interest-only ARM products for either a single asset or a portfolio of properties, allowing investors to further...

Foreign Investment in U.S. Residential Real Estate Drops
Foreign buyers purchased fewer U.S. existing homes from April 2018 through March 2019. That’s according to a report the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released July 17. The report, “Profile of International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate 2019,” is an annual survey of...

Offerpad Adds Director, Plans Product Expansion
Bryan LaFranchi has joined iBuyer Offerpad as its national director of Homebuilder Alliances. He was previously with Zillow Group for nine years. Offerpad’s Homebuilder Alliance program allows homeowners to coordinate the sale of their existing home to coincide with the purchase of a new...

Capital Markets Veteran Joins PeerStreet
PeerStreet has appointed Deepa Salastekar as the vice president of institutional sales. PeerStreet is a marketplace for investing in real estate backed loans. Salastekar will lead the expansion of the company’s relationship base of institutional partners across all PeerStreet’s investment types....

Sagent Lending Technologies Adds Executive
Stephanie Durflinger is the new executive vice president and chief product officer of Sagent Lending Technologies. She will lead product management and customer support for mortgage and consumer servicing solutions. Durflinger brings more than 20 years of mortgage technology expertise to the new...

Single-Family Build-To-Rent Investment Platform Launches
Lafayette Real Estate has teamed up with Guardian Residential to create an investment platform that focuses solely on the acquisition and development of newly constructed homes for the purpose of long-term rentals. The new firm will be known as Lafayette Communities. It will be led by Thibault...