June 2025

Class Valuation unveils appraisal review tool

Class Valuation has launched a new appraisal review product designed to bring greater clarity and oversight to residential valuations. The new tool, Class Valuation Analysis (CVA), offers licensed appraiser-led reviews of existing appraisal reports by incorporating automated valuation model (AVM) technology. “In today’s market, uncertainty is expensive, and lenders can’t afford to...

How to Hire a Contractor (8 photos)

Do your due diligence before hiring your contractor. Price should not be the only factor when making the final decision on who will build your dream home. Your home is where you spend most of your time, and you don’t want poor-quality construction details staring you in the face, day after day....

World Property Markets to Launch Industry Wide Joint Venture Funding Round

Funding Aimed to Accelerate Global Real Estate Platform Development and Growth World Property Markets, a wholly owned portfolio company of Miami-based real estate technology developer World Property Ventures, announced this week that it is preparing to launch a major funding round in the second half of 2025. The capital raise is intended to accelerate the development and global deployment of the company's...

Commercial, Multifamily Mortgage Debt in U.S. Hits Record $4.81 Trillion in Early 2025

Despite ongoing challenges in new loan originations, commercial and multifamily mortgage debt levels in the U.S. continued to climb in the first quarter of 2025, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) latest Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Debt Outstanding quarterly report. Total commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding rose by $46.8 billion, or 1.0%, to reach a record $4.81...

Longbridge’s Bill Packer on crafting AI that’s inclusive of seniors

As more companies embrace the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into their business- and customer-facing operations, a concern has emerged among firms focused on delivering services to older people AI training typically occurs with younger staffers, who could then incorporate unconscious institutional biases that might leave seniors feeling alienated from the technology. Representatives...

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