Our "Find Your Home Faster" campaign designed in partnership with Verizon has been named one of Brandtale's highly regarded "Campaigns Worth Seeing" and we certainly agree! In this virtual house hunt guide, consumers can find advice for both online home shopping and tips for making sure the house is fully connected on move in day. It's a win win! Congrats to the consumer media team for such a successful execution and partnership.
In a first-of-its-kind series, beloved REALTOR® and neighborhood explorer, Andrew Tyree, takes first-time homebuyers in San Antonio, Los Angeles, Raleigh, Fort Collins on a journey to find a neighborhood that feels like home as they discover what they should really consider before they sign on the dotted line. Each episode goes beyond the typical house hunt, diving deeper into the other aspects of home buying — the neighbors, the surrounding businesses, and the community where roots will be planted; the things that really make a place a home. We are beyond thrilled about this series! Congratulations to everyone on the realtor.com team involved in this tremendous new series.
Chris Patalano has joined the realtor.com team as our new Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Patalano will define and lead the implementation of our long-term strategic technology roadmap and work closely with product and marketing leaders to optimize the company's technology infrastructure. Welcome Home Chris Patalano!
"When people become homeowners, they invest more fully in a community, and the quality of their lives in that home is affected by a lot of factors outside of those four walls." -- David Doctorow, CEO Realtor.com
Great fun this week when RESO CEO @Sam DeBord stopped by -- virtually, of course -- for a livestream with our employees. Our collaborative work with industry partners to create efficiency and drive innovation in real estate tech makes us especially proud because of its positive impact on consumers.
With 80% of info on a home's listing page being visual, our technology team set out to optimize the experience. Jason and Ejay gave an amazing RealTechTalk this week discussing the challenges the team faced, solved for, and cost savings of using AWS Lambda combined with Cloudfront for dynamic image processing.
Huge congratulations to Rachel Morley, our Chief Product Officer, on being named a HousingWire 2020 Woman of Influence!
Our CEO, David Doctorow penned this article for Forbes addressing racial equity and real estate . According to David, "From where I sit, at the intersection of the real estate and technology industries, there are several steps we can all take to address racism and racial disparity in home search and homeownership". Read more.
At realtor.com, we stand for the right of every person to be who they are, to be understood, accepted, and supported, in all their uniqueness and significance. But it is not enough just to say we believe these things - we must add impact to our words. We must do what is right and take action to turn the tide of hatred to empathy, humanity, and advocacy.
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