Technology & AI

The turnaround drops from 24 hours to under 12 for MLSs that buy from both companies — which, since May, have had the same parent.

The Phoenix software company said Sept. 28 it has released an MCP server, letting brokerages connect their own AI agents and internal systems to the data and workflows they keep in Lofty without custom integration code.

Cipher Digital amended its Barber Lake lease with Fluidstack and signed a binding commitment with an unnamed AI lab for a second 10-year term, doubling the Colorado City, Texas campus’s contracted life and adding about $5.2 billion in revenue.

Blossom Capital led the Series A for a company selling AI agents to the in-house teams that manage corporate office portfolios. Meta, Uber, Merck and Cohesity are named as customers, and the former head of Google’s real estate expansion joins as an adviser.

HouseCanary and several affiliates filed for Chapter 11 protection in New Jersey on Sept. 22, the day secured creditor Ocean II PLO LLC had scheduled a California foreclosure sale covering substantially all of the company’s assets. Its $175 million Texas trade-secrets judgment was carved out of the collateral.

PLACE has closed its acquisition of Maxwell, whose point-of-sale software and outsourced fulfillment services help facilitate more than $130 billion in mortgage transactions a year, moving the real estate platform onto the financing side of the deals its agents already work.

MetroList, Northern Nevada Regional MLS and Oregon Data Share have named their joint repository Orion, giving subscribers of each service access to the others’ listings, with direct integration into each MLS planned for a later phase.

The bills require data centers of 10 megawatts or more to report power use to the California Energy Commission, direct the CPUC to write new large-load tariffs by 2028, and strip categorical CEQA exemptions in exchange for a conditional fast lane.

The New York company said Sept. 22 it acquired Zuma, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed maker of AI agents that apartment operators use to capture leads, book tours and collect rent, as Venn approaches one million units under management.

NAR’s 2026 Realtors Technology Report, released Sept. 22, found 23% of agents use AI daily and 25% weekly, while the share ruling it out fell to 12% from the 32% who had not tried it a year earlier.

Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to halt all data center permits on Sept. 21, and told every state agency to hold regulatory approvals until grid and water audits are complete.

The mapping platform’s new tool assembles public records and licensed data for an address, then uses AI to explain what matters and map it. The announcement does not say how the answers are tested.

Data Center Watch counted at least 45 U.S. data center projects worth nearly $68 billion blocked or delayed between April and June, keeping 2026 far ahead of last year’s pace even after state legislative sessions ended.

Gov. Joe Lombardo’s Executive Order 2026-005 bars data center abatement applications from reaching Nevada’s economic development board unless developers pay the Local School Support Tax in full and sign a binding water, ratepayer and grid commitment.

The Denver developer behind the Abilene, Texas, AI campus closed an initial $3.9 billion Series F and added Digital Realty’s former chief executive to its board.

Bilt bought Livly’s property operations platform and signed a separate deal to run resident experience across Collective Residential’s communities. Terms were not disclosed.

Scaffold raised $15 million led by Navitas Capital, with D.R. Horton, Pulte Homes and Builders FirstSource investing in an AI layer that connects the systems 29 of the top 30 builders already run.

The construction intelligence firm said Sept. 14 it raised $130 million led by O.G. Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $297 million, as owners including Intel and Digital Realty push schedule-critical data center projects.

An NBC News Decision Desk Poll released Sept. 6 found 69% of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their local area — including 57% of Republicans — as entitlement risk becomes the binding constraint on the largest growth category in U.S. nonresidential construction.

Cushman & Wakefield’s 2026 Data Center Development Cost Guide puts all-in greenfield cost at $17.6 million per megawatt in the U.S. and Canada, up 21% since late 2024, with power infrastructure the largest single line item and powered land up 51% year over year.

The Blackstone-backed developer has 4 gigawatts of leased capacity operating and more than 15 gigawatts of powered land in the pipeline — the scarce commodity in the AI buildout.

A stipulated order filed the morning trial was set to open requires Redfin to rebuild the rental advertising business it exited in 2025, and strips the restrictions the FTC said Zillow’s $100 million payment bought.

Zurich-based Lookthrough and Berlin-based BuildingMinds are combining to build an AI decision-intelligence platform covering more than 100,000 buildings across 64 countries.

RealReports’ redesigned Business Momentum Engine expands its Aiden AI assistant to proactively surface prospecting and past-client opportunities as existing-home sales sit near a 30-year low.

California Regional MLS launched REcore Workspace, a customizable hub replacing its static dashboard for more than 100,000 subscribers across Matrix, Paragon and Flexmls.

The Data Center Coalition agreed to comply with Gov. Greg Abbott’s five development standards, and at least one operator ended a Texas project rather than meet them, as ERCOT works through a 474-gigawatt interconnection queue.

Unframe says Cushman & Wakefield reduced lease abstraction from as long as three days to minutes and has expanded to more than 15 active AI projects. Cushman & Wakefield has not issued its own announcement.

RentCafe launched Ren, a conversational AI apartment search agent available nationwide, letting renters describe what they want instead of setting filters. The site says it serves more than 40 million renters.