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Backed with $10M, Buyside rebrands as Percy, expands into mortgage

Original Story of Percy expanding into mortgage appears on Inman.com
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Rebranding and strategic alliance with Black Knight, reflect data analytics and marketing company’s ability to identify not only homebuyer, but seller leads.

Highlighting the company’s ability to identify not only homebuyer but seller leads, data analytics and marketing company Buyside has rebranded as Percy and expanded into mortgage — bolstered by $10 million in new equity funding from backers including Howard Hanna Real Estate Services and Leading Real Estate Companies of the World.

Now, Percy also has a strategic alliance with real estate software, data and analytics provider Black Knight Inc., allowing Black Knight to offer a new customer engagement solution powered by machine learning, to monitor homeowner behavior “signals,” the companies announced Tuesday. 

Launched to help brokerages match buyers to listings, Buyside “evolved into an ecosystem that spans mortgages as well as real estate, across both the buy and sell sides of the real estate equation,” said Percy founder and CEO Charles Williams, in a statement. “Today, Percy analyzes billions of pre-buying as well as pre-selling signals in real estate consumers’ behavior to empower loan officers, real estate agents and brokers with actionable intelligence.” 

Black Knight is the target of a $13.1 billion acquisition bid by Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE), which seeks to integrate solutions built by both companies to create a “life of loan” mortgage platform that will produce cost saving efficiencies. 

The strategic alliance with Percy — which claims to be “real estate’s leading provider of homebuyer intent and seller leads” — expands Black Knight’s lead generation capabilities. 

“Today’s housing market is categorized by record-low inventory and record-high home prices, which – together with sharply rising rates – continue to put downward pressure on purchase lending,” said Ben Graboske, president of data and analytics at Black Knight, in a statement. “As everyone in our industry is aware, generating inventory is key to lessening affordability pressures as well as keeping lender and real estate agent pipelines full. This strategic alliance with Percy will allow our clients across real estate and mortgage to use an AI-powered, big-data-fueled approach to intelligently engage with those customers, to build business while also generating inventory.” 

That track record helped Percy land HomeServices of America subsidiary Prosperity Home Mortgage as a client, said Ron Wivagg, national sales manager for Prosperity Home Mortgage. 

“With Percy’s success and adoption from our real estate brands, it only made sense for PHM to leverage the same application for our loan officers,” Wivagg said in a statement. “We now have a tech ecosystem that services both the real estate and mortgage businesses, which helps us maintain oversight of our client’s intent to transact.” 

Read the full story in Inman. to see how Percy expands into mortgage.

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