Craig C. Rowe

RentSpree has announced its first fintech feature, a banking solution to empower small landlords to better manage property finances. The move is expected to attract a larger swath of the investor market. Owner-operators of institutional rental properties are often bogged down by the financial demands of running single-family rental portfolios, Class-B and C apartment communities, student housing units, or other rental classes traded on the retail market.

Luxury Presence is starting off 2026 with a resolution to change how real estate brokerages manage customer relationships. The company raised the money to fuel the development of Presence CRM, a product that it called in a Jan. 8 press release, “the first AI relationship engine that transforms an agent’s sphere into a proactive source of new business.” The Series C consists of $22 million in equity financing led by repeat lead investor Bessemer Venture Partners.

Tech expert Craig Rowe reviews Klipster. “The mobile application helps real estate agents create and share listing and social marketing content on its own consumer-facing network,” he writes. Klipster is a TikTok-inspired listing marketing application for real estate agents who work with sellers and renters.