We've represented buyers and sellers. Financed homes. Negotiated hundreds of transactions. Built sophisticated technology. And we've bought and sold homes ourselves.
From every perspective, we kept seeing the same thing: one of the most important parts of real estate—the offer and negotiation—is still unnecessarily complicated, fragmented and opaque.
We believed there had to be a better way. So we started building it.
OFFER1.
Consumers can discover virtually every home from their phones.
Properties can be marketed to thousands of buyers almost instantly.
Documents can be electronically signed from anywhere.
Data that once took days to obtain can now be accessed in seconds.
Yet when a buyer decides “I want this house,” the transaction can suddenly fall backward decades.
And consumers frequently have very little visibility into what's happening. For something involving hundreds of thousands—or millions—of dollars, we thought that was remarkable.
OFFER1 was shaped by three very different perspectives.
We understand the process because we've done the work.
Real estate transactions are complicated. The technology doesn't have to be.
Improving real estate isn't only about agent efficiency. The transaction needs to work better for the people buying and selling the home too.
The problems OFFER1 solves weren't discovered in a focus group.
They were discovered one transaction at a time.
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OFFER1 was born at the intersection of those experiences.
When offers move through private emails, PDFs, phone calls and text messages, consumers are asked to place enormous trust in a process they often cannot see.
Over the years, we've seen what can happen.
Sometimes the explanation is perfectly legitimate. Sometimes it's human error. Sometimes it's poor communication. Sometimes it's simply a broken process.
But in an opaque system, consumers may never know.
Most real estate professionals want to do the right thing for their clients. Great technology should help them demonstrate that they did.
Transparency protects consumers.
Transparency also protects great agents.
A more structured process can create a clearer record that offers were received, information was presented, changes were documented and decisions were made by the people authorized to make them. Good agents shouldn't fear that kind of transparency. They should benefit from it.
Imagine several qualified buyers want the same property. Each submits an offer privately. None of them knows where they stand.
One offer is selected. The negotiation ends. Those buyers' true willingness to pay was never discovered—and the seller may never know what the market was actually willing to pay.
That's not necessarily wrongdoing. It's a limitation of the process.
OFFER1 is designed to enable something different. When appropriate— and when the seller and listing agent choose to run a competitive process—buyers can be given appropriate visibility into their competitive position and the opportunity to improve their offers.
Now the buyers decide. Stay. Improve. Or walk away.
That creates something traditional offer management struggles to create efficiently: a marketplace.
May have been willing to pay another $10,000.
May have been willing to pay another $25,000.
May have wanted the property badly enough to pay substantially more.
OFFER1 isn't designed to decide what a property is worth. It's designed to help create an environment where the market has a better opportunity to reveal it. The seller remains in control. The listing agent remains the strategist. Buyers decide what the property is worth to them.
Built around the transaction as a whole—not just one participant.
Building infrastructure for real estate requires more than understanding individual transactions. It requires perspective on the broader ecosystem—MLS infrastructure, property data, technology, standards and the systems connecting real estate professionals and consumers. OFFER1 benefits from the guidance of experienced leaders across that ecosystem.
Chief Executive Officer
California Regional Multiple Listing Service (CRMLS)
Art Carter leads California Regional Multiple Listing Service, one of the largest and most influential MLS organizations in the United States, serving tens of thousands of real estate professionals. His perspective brings decades of experience across MLS infrastructure, real estate technology, industry standards and the systems professionals rely on every day.
Advisor to OFFER1Chief Product & Technology Officer
ATTOM
Todd Teta leads product and technology at ATTOM, a major provider of property and real estate data used throughout the housing and proptech industries. His experience across real estate data, technology infrastructure, product development and large-scale property information systems provides valuable perspective as OFFER1 builds the next generation of offer infrastructure.
Advisor to OFFER1Advisors participate in an individual capacity. Their organizations do not sponsor, endorse or own OFFER1, and no affiliation between OFFER1 and CRMLS or ATTOM is implied.
Residential real estate experience
Homes sold in the first year
Of residential transactions
Mortgage financing experience
Complex offers should be easier for consumers and professionals to understand.
Buyers and sellers deserve greater visibility into a process involving some of the largest financial decisions they'll ever make.
When appropriate, sellers and their agents should have better tools to turn buyer interest into genuine competition and price discovery.
Important decisions deserve an organized process and a clearer record of what happened.
Technology should handle the mechanics. Agents should provide the strategy and advice. Consumers should make informed decisions.
OFFER1 isn't being built to replace agents. It isn't being built to make decisions for sellers. It isn't being built to tell buyers what a home is worth to them. And it isn't being built to automate judgment.
Great agents provide something technology cannot: experience, advice, strategy, negotiation, context and human connection.
Our job is to give them better infrastructure.
We're building OFFER1 because we believe the offer should become one of the most transparent, organized and understandable parts of a real estate transaction—not one of the least.
We've been the agent.
We've been the technologist.
We've been the buyer.
We've been the seller.
We've seen what works. We've seen what doesn't.
And we believe real estate deserves a better way to make an offer.
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