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The trade record for transaction coordinators
Every figure on this site is attributed to a named primary source, dated, and corroborated where vendor data is involved.
Everything filed, newest first. 20 stories.
Client-touch campaigns are ordinary practice in this business. A TREC rule and a 2020 CFPB guidance note between them decide how much of one a coordinator can run, and who is allowed to pay for it.
NAR's 2026 survey counts 67,100 purchases concentrated in Florida, California and Texas. The all-cash share is the figure that rewrites a coordinator's checklist, and the seller side carries a withholding rule most files never meet.
TC Bulletin put the questions from its July story to the published material of ListedKit, Rebillion.ai, DocJacket, Trackxi and Nekst. Every one of them describes the speed. Not one describes the citation, the confidence level, or what becomes of your clients' documents.
Freehold enforces workspace separation with Postgres row-level security and logs who performed each sensitive action. For a desk holding wire instructions and client logins, the difference between those two places is most of the argument.
The services sale closed on 3 August. The title deal, covering an underwriter and a national agency, is so far only an agreement and needs regulatory approval before it can complete in the fourth quarter.
Three specialist brokers describe the same claim profile: missed deadlines, missing signatures, the wrong version of a contract. One publishes a premium range. The market-size and premium-saving figures circulating alongside them are not sourced at all.
Nobody was covering this profession as a beat. Five sections, one rule: every number names its source and its date.
The AI-native coordinator platforms are not just competing on features. They are pricing on completely different axes, and at ordinary file volumes the gap between the two models runs to hundreds of dollars a month.
The category grew out of back offices, which is why so much of it is organised around the brokerage rather than the file. Freehold's per-transaction email addresses and contract-anchored deadlines are built from the other side of the desk.
FundingShield's first-quarter screen flagged 43.72% of transactions in a $106.7 billion portfolio. That is an improvement on the record it set last autumn, and it is still four files in ten.
The 2026 State of Wire Fraud report surveyed more than 1,400 consumers and real estate professionals. Its sharpest finding is not the attack rate. It is that 56% of consumers would not use the same firm again.
California publishes a checklist and a guide. Texas answers the question with 'it depends'. Florida has no single page at all, and the statute does the work instead.
ListedKit, Rebillion.ai, DocJacket, Trackxi and Nekst all shipped AI tooling between 2024 and 2026. No standard governs what the extraction may be trusted to do.
NAR's state-by-state PDF is still the document handed to new coordinators. State regulators have published a great deal since it was written.
Written buyer agreements became mandatory on 17 August 2024. The forms work that created is now routine, and there is nothing in the record to suggest it is going back.
C.A.R.'s programme runs to 17 hours or more, is open to licensed and unlicensed coordinators, and renews every two years. No national equivalent exists.
Brokermint became BoldTrail BackOffice in June 2024. Dotloop answers to Zillow Group, zipForm to Lone Wolf, and RealTrends to HousingWire.
The FBI complaint centre logged 1,008,597 complaints. For anyone covering closing fraud, it is the one figure with no product attached to it.
The Real Estate Bulletin posts in the middle of March, June, September and December. Winter 2026 is the current issue.
The integration closes a double-entry gap that coordinators running a Trackxi board against a SkySlope compliance file have been filling by hand.