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Sally Forster Jones and the business behind the beautiful house
A $70 million sale gets the attention. The team behind Sally Forster Jones Group, now Forster Jones International, shows how much work happens before anyone gets the keys.
How Sotheby's International Realty Canada Turned the Humble Listing Into a Global Media Campaign
The Canadian brokerage sells homes, but its sharper product is attention: a local agent, a polished media machine and a global referral network packaged into one listing agreement.
The $41 Million Closing Machine Hidden Inside Your Home Deal
OS National turned the least photogenic part of real estate - title, escrow and settlement - into a national operating system. Then a three-year customer paid $41 million to bring the machinery in-house.
Real
Real built a cloud brokerage around the agent. Now it is wiring AI, banking, mortgages and closings into the same transaction - while a pending RE/MAX deal puts that operating system to its biggest test.
Beazer Homes
Beazer Homes is trying to make a volatile housing market feel less volatile - one lower utility bill, independently tested wall and competing mortgage quote at a time.
Findigs
Findigs is a New York-based proptech company that automates residential tenant screening and leasing decisions. Its AI-native platform verifies applicant identity, income, and documents, detects fraud, and returns instant, data-grounded rent-or-decline decisions with contractual fraud guarantees - helping single-family and multifamily operators fill units faster while cutting evictions and delinquency. Founded in 2018 by Colby College classmates Steve Carroll and Keith Gilvar, Findigs manages screening across 400,000+ residential units and has raised roughly $80 million to date, most recently a $32M Series C in June 2026.
Plotify
Plotify is a New York-based wealthtech, proptech and fintech company that lets sophisticated and high-net-worth investors around the world buy, finance and manage income-generating residential rental homes in the US and UK through a single app. Its signature 'Plot' - a single tenanted property held in its own single-owner LLC/SPV - bundles underwriting, optional point-of-purchase financing, property management, tenant management, insurance, tax and accounting into a tradable unit, compressing a single-family-rental purchase from an industry-average 52 days to about 10 minutes.
Qira
Qira is a New York-based financial platform built for residential property managers. It brings security deposits, deposit alternatives, rent payment processing, Pay Later flexible rent, and automated move-out claims into one system that syncs with major property management software and handles compliance across all 50 U.S. states. Formed in October 2021 by the merger of Rentigo and HelloRented, Qira aims to protect owner cash flow while smoothing the money side of renting for residents.
RentRedi
RentRedi is a mobile-first property management platform that gives independent landlords an all-in-one toolkit to collect rent online, list and market vacancies, screen tenants, sign leases, and coordinate maintenance and accounting - while giving renters an app to pay rent, set up auto-pay, build credit, and submit maintenance requests. Founded in 2016 by father-and-son team Ryan and Ed Barone after Ryan's own frustrating apartment hunt in New York City, the company now serves close to 300,000 landlords and renters and manages more than $33 billion in assets.
Perchwell
Perchwell is a modern data and workflow platform for residential real estate, built to replace the dated MLS (Multiple Listing Service) software that agents rely on every day. Founded in New York City in 2015, it pairs a property-centric data model with fast search, branded reports, market analytics, client collaboration tools, and well-built iOS and Android apps. MLSs, brokerages, and agents use Perchwell as a single source of listing data and a daily workspace. The company is backed by Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Starwood Capital, and several of the largest MLSs in the country.