Amenify Teams With Visa to Launch Intelligent Resident Commerce
Resident commerce and services platform Amenify is teaming up with Visa to enable renters to earn value on rent and local spending as well as use those rewards to access curated services and agentic commerce tools.
Residents will be able to link their existing Visa cards to Amenify and earn value when that card is used for eligible rent payments or everyday spending with select merchants.
“We believe the future is agentic commerce,” said founder and CEO Everett Lynn. “Our collaboration with Visa represents a major milestone toward the next phase of this journey. Amenify’s platform is flexible and built to support both hyper-local density for neighborhood merchants and the scale required by national brands. Visa’s capabilities strengthen our ability to deliver value across the ecosystem for residents, property operators, and commerce partners.” amenify.com
Apprise by Walker & Dunlop Expands Multifamily Valuation Services
Apprise by Walker & Dunlop, Multifamily Executive’s 2025 grand winner for the best use of proptech, has announced the launch of a national Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)/Federal Housing Administration (FHA) multifamily valuation and market study practice group led by Nelson Pratt.
Pratt, managing director and national HUD practice lead, will oversee HUD/FHA appraisal and market study production, strengthen quality control standards, and lead team development alongside a specialized five-person valuation and market study team.
He brings more than 20 years of multifamily valuation and consulting experience, with emphasis on HUD-insured assets, eminent domain, housing needs assessments, and market study assignments. Pratt previously served as managing director at Colliers Valuation & Advisory Services.
Apprise continues to grow its HUD-insured multifamily valuation and market study capabilities across the United States. Launched by Walker & Dunlop, Apprise is focused exclusively on the U.S. market and has a collective track record of valuing over $350 billion worth of commercial real estate properties to date. walkerdunlop.com
Fundrise Launches RealAI
Fundrise, the nation’s largest direct-to-investor alternative asset manager, has launched RealAI, a real estate intelligence platform that transforms how investors and multifamily professionals analyze properties and markets.
Built on a proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) systems trained on tens of thousands of hours of team experience and trillions of data points, RealAI has real-time data on renters, property financials, sales history, demographics, household financials, and market dynamics across U.S. residential properties.
“AI is going disrupt how alpha is generated in the real estate industry,” said Ben Miller, CEO of Fundrise and co-founder of RealAI. “Real estate has always been an information-asymmetry business—who has the data; but now it will also be about who adopts fastest and stays on the edge of technology. RealAI levels the field by giving any professional more advanced tools than are available at the biggest institutional platforms, fundamentally changing the game for who wins and who loses.”
Built on Fundrise’s experiencing owning, financing, and managing over 35,000 residential units, RealAI helps teams to move faster, evaluate more opportunities, and reduce costs. realai.com
Ellipse, a Leasing Automation Platform from H2L Marketing, Debuts
H2L Marketing has launched Ellipse, a leasing automation platform for multifamily properties. The new platform will help empower leasing teams to focus on their work, while it ensures every email, text, or voice call receives a real-time response.
“With Ellipse, our mission is clear, we enable properties to respond to 100% of prospect inquiries and improve property staff utilization through intelligent automation,” said chief operating officer Femi Lakeru. “As a team of property owners, we are dedicated to helping fellow owners and operators protect their investment and improve efficiency. Ellipse enables leasing agents to focus on providing engaging tours, driving resident satisfaction and superior performance.”
Implementation is designed to work seamlessly with existing technology platforms, and its pricing is transparent. ellipseleasing.com
Informed.IQ Survey Delves Into Applicant Verifications
Informed.IQ, a developer of AI-based software income and employment verifications, took the pulse of property managers and landlords on the state of applicant fraud in a recent survey.
Nearly half of the respondents, 46%, said they still conduct verifications manually, while 28% use tenant screening software and 26% outsource screening to third-party services.
According to the findings, over a quarter of respondents, 27%, said the process of verifications is extremely time consuming. In addition, regarding challenges, 18% said they experience a lack of reliable data during the verification process, 17% noted inconsistent results, and 12% cited legal issues.
Property managers are looking to the opportunities that AI brings to verifications. Over half of the respondents, 53%, said while they are not currently leveraging AI, they would like to learn more about it; 23% said they are considering its use; and 60% said they are unsure about the familiarity of how AI may help them in their efforts to battle fraud.
“Despite advancements in technology, property management professionals still face significant challenges with applicant fraud and verifying applicant information,” said Mac Rechan, head of partnerships. “It’s alarming that a substantial number of managers continue to rely on manual application verifications, a process that is not only time-consuming but also prone to errors and fraud. The promise that AI-driven verification technology holds is significant.” informediq.com
New AI Capabilities for Inhabit’s ValenceDocs
ValenceDocs by Inhabit, which specializes in intelligent document management for property operations, has announced an AI-powered lease file audit solution. The solution builds on the organization’s audit capabilities with Blue Moon leases to allow property managers to conduct ongoing, configurable audits on any lease documents, including custom forms and those available through other lease document providers.
The enhanced platform automatically identifies discrepancies between property management system data and executed lease documents, ensuring accuracy in rents, security deposits, lease end dates, rentable items, addendums, and more.
“This AI expansion represents a game-changer for compliance and operational accuracy across the industry,” said Lisa Chall, vice president of screening and compliance at Inhabit. “It removes barriers and provides property teams with unprecedented flexibility, allowing them to reliably and in real time audit any lease automatically—no matter its origin—and instantly surface actionable insights across their portfolio. This ensures complete visibility, protecting net operating income and giving property operators a level of certainty that simply wasn’t possible with manual or partial portfolio audits.” inhabit.com
MRI Software Taps Nihar Malik as Chief Innovation Officer
MRI Software has appointed Nihar Malik as chief innovation officer. He will lead the company’s global innovation strategy and delivery, with an emphasis on enhancing and evolving MRI’s data and software solution capabilities through fully adopted AI enablement that will improve client outcomes across the real estate technology landscape.
Prior to joining MRI Software, Malik served as chief product and transformation officer at Solera, where he led corporate strategy, product road maps, operational excellence, and M&A execution to advance the company’s growth initiatives.
“I couldn’t be more excited to welcome Nihar as the newest member of our executive leadership team,” said CEO Patrick Ghilani. “His deep experience leading large-scale product transformation, unifying large product suites, building data and operating platforms, and scaling teams across international markets will play a central role in advancing our AI-first, next-generation innovation strategy. Nihar will lead our global charge to deliver the most comprehensive proptech capabilities and partner ecosystem in the industry to our amazing clients, all within an operating platform that is intelligent, intuitive, scalable, and secure.” mrisoftware.com
Quadient Launches PREMIER Locker for Upscale Multifamily
The new Parcel Pending by Quadient PREMIER Locker System has been designed specifically for upscale multifamily living and package deliveries. With a sleek and modern aesthetic, the locker’s 15.6-inch HD portrait color touchscreen provides an intuitive premium user interface for residents and package carriers.
The PREMIER locker can be installed with other Quadient indoor locker towers to accommodate a range of needs, including oversized and refrigerated items.
“Class A multifamily operators made it clear they needed a premium, design-driven locker solution to differentiate their communities and protect asset value, and Quadient delivered,” said Austin Maddox, executive vice president of Quadient’s North American locker solutions.
The system also integrates with most major property management platforms, ensuring smooth setup and operation. parcelpending.com
Visitt Raises $22 Million in Series B Funding
Visitt, an AI-native property operations platform for commercial real estate (CRE), has raised $22 million Series B funding from Susquehanna Growth Equity, with participation from existing investors Vertex Ventures Israel, Anfield, and Sarona Ventures.
According to the firm, this funding round follows a year of rapid expansion. Co-founded by CEO Itay Oren, chief technology officer Idan Wender, and chief product officer Jonathan Kroll, the platform is built around real-world workflows informed by live building operations across multifamily, office, industrial, data center, and retail properties.
“As the first platform to deeply embed AI into day-to-day CRE operations, Visitt is purpose-built to meet new expectations for operational excellence and tenant experience. Legacy systems were designed for a different era and can’t meet these demands,” said Oren. “Operators need speed, clarity, and real outcomes through a single interface with AI built into the operational core.”
Visitt plans to expand its single AI interface for property operations inside the workflows teams use daily, building on its existing capabilities such as work order intelligence, its AI agent for certificate of insurance management, and multilingual communication tools. In addition, it plans to add new AI agents that save time on manual work, build more predictive intelligence, scale customer experience teams, and advance its proprietary onboarding technology. visitt.io