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A traditional real estate brokerage is getting deeper into new approaches to buying and selling homes, and relying on a partnership with a Blackstone Inc. company to do it.
Realogy Holdings Corp. and Home Partners of America, a single-family landlord that Blackstone acquired this year, are expanding a joint venture that competes with Zillow Group Inc., Opendoor Technologies Inc. and other companies seeking to simplify the process of selling a home.