The company that brought real estate into new light: HomeLight

The Silicon Review

The vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying for all. HomeLight is the software platform empowering agents and lenders to compete and win in today's tech-enabled world. Unparalleled network as the team partners with 30K+ of the top real estate agents and lenders across the country. Great success rates reflect as the team support over $1B of real estate transactions on the platform every year. Operating at scale as the team has worked with over 1M happy clients across the U.S. and counting. The past decade of innovation in real estate has focused on how to help buyers find the home of their dreams. The team is taking it one step further - giving people everywhere a new way to buy or sell their home, with a top real estate agent and lender by their side.

HomeLight is the essential technology platform used by hundreds of thousands of agents, lenders, and their clients. With the support of HomeLight, the agent and lender partners help their clients win at any step of the real estate journey — whether that's finding a top agent, securing financing with the financial flagship products, or ensuring on-time, easy closing. The commitment to accessibility is impeccable. HomeLight is committed to making the website accessible and user friendly to all. While the team is constantly working to improve, the team welcomes the clients’ feedback and accommodation requests.

Extensive services the organization provides

Finding the perfect agent: The agents don't pay HomeLight to get listed, which ensures that the clients get the best match. It takes just two minutes to match the clients with the best real estate agents, who will contact the clients and guide the clients through the process. Slogging through endless web searches can keep the clients up at night, visiting bait-and-switch open houses is more than frustrating, and clicking through photo after photo can make the clients’ eyes cross. A top real estate agent can take that burden off the clients’ shoulders. They'll only show the clients the properties that meet the clients’ standards and specifications, they'll show the clients more of them, and they'll schedule open house appointments on the clients’ schedule. Top real estate agents have worked with both sellers and buyers in the clients’ area—they've seen all of the ups-and-downs in the market, they've closed more deals in the neighborhood and, at a glance, can point out which homes are underpriced or overvalued. Tap into a top real estate agent's years of real estate experience to save time and energy every step of the way. The clients let the team know what the clients are looking for in a home and in a real estate agent and the team will do the research. The team only recommends the top performing real estate agents working in the clients’ area, those with a proven track record of success handling needs like the clients’.

Sell with speed: Sell the clients’ home for a competitive price in as few as 10 days, with no additional fees, agent commission, or prep‑work. Tell the team about the clients’ home and speak to a Home Consultant. This helps the team get the best possible offer from the investors for the clients’ home. The team uses the clients’ local neighborhood data. The team uses the clients’ local neighborhood data and the extensive investor network to find the best offer for the clients’ home. Accept the clients’ cash offer and choose the clients’ move date. Get paid in 10 days.

Valuation: Most home value algorithms don’t know the little things that make the clients’ home different. That’s where the clients come in. Pair the clients’ answers to a few questions with housing market data from multiple trusted sources and the team can predict the clients’ home’s current value with far greater accuracy. Get all the important parts of a comparative market analysis, throw in a list of the top local real estate agents who are proven to sell homes like the clients’ for more money, and back it all up with the clients’ home’s Simple Sale™ price -- typically 90-95% of the clients’ home’s full market value -- if the clients’ would rather skip the listing process entirely. Kick off the clients’ home sale armed with the right information. Online home valuation tools look at millions of transactions to predict what a home is worth but they're often missing crucial data, making them inaccurate. By asking a few specific questions about the clients’ home, the team can add a new layer of information to the estimates and get closer to an accurate value for the clients’ home. But even that can only get the clients so far.

Meet the leader behind the success of HomeLight

Drew Uher, Founder and CEO

Drew Uher is the Founder and CEO of HomeLight, the real estate technology platform transforming the home buying and selling process for home buyers, sellers, and top real estate agents across the United States. Drew has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Leaders in Real Estate by Inman News and was recognized as a Tech Trendsetter in 2019 by HousingWire. Under his leadership, HomeLight has been recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America by Deloitte, one of America's Best Startups by Forbes, and a best place to work by both Inc. Magazine and the San Francisco Business Times.

Prior to founding HomeLight, Drew co-founded Gameyola, a distribution and monetization platform for casual Flash games. He is a Venture Partner at 1984 Ventures, focusing on seed and early stage startups, and holds a BA in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University, as well as an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.