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| Nov 10, 2026 | Seller’s choice or Compass choice? Here’s what Robert Reffkin said to his investors | For two years, the case for private listings has come down to two words: seller’s choice. The homeowner decides. Who could argue with that? Not me. I’ve said for years that a seller who understands the trade-offs has every right to keep a s... |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Homeowners tap equity as HELOC balances post biggest jump since 2005: New York Fed report | The outstanding amount owed on home equity lines of credit is now $481 billion, according to the latest quarterly report on consumer debt from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Just under half of outstanding mortgages — 49.1% — carried ... |
| Nov 6, 2026 | Women In Tech: Top 8 Women In Proptech In 2026 | For years, property lagged behind other sectors in adopting technology, leaning on paper files and broker intuition instead. Proptech is changing that old approach, and many women are at the forefront of the shift.
The market they’re buildi... |
| Nov 5, 2026 | Homeownership divides widen as older, wealthier buyers dominate 2026 market | The 2026 “Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers” from the National Association of Realtors paints a housing market increasingly split between older, equity-rich owners and younger households still locked out by high costs.
The report, based on... |
| Nov 4, 2026 | NAR advances strategic plan with new tools, MLS outreach and housing initiatives | The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is moving from policy wins to implementation as it rolls out fraud-prevention tools, MLS engagement and housing supply efforts tied to its 2026–2028 strategic plan, according to a third-quarter pro... |
| Oct 29, 2026 | Home prices fall and rents rise, both for the first time in three years | The median home price in October fell 0.1% year over year.
The median rent price in October rose 0.1% year over year.
The national multifamily vacancy rate stood at 7% in October.
High mortgage rates and concern over the broader economy hav... |
| Oct 27, 2026 | Frozen housing market sends remodelers mixed messages | Annual spending on home improvements and repairs is expected to remain relatively flat through late 2027, according to the latest Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) from the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Ho... |
| Oct 26, 2026 | Mortgage rates above 7% are the ‘new normal’—here’s why | Everyone seems to agree that mortgage rates above 7% are the new “normal.”
The phrase keeps popping up lately in public comments from housing economists, including Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, and ... |
| Oct 26, 2026 | At 7.28%, the American dream just got a $215-a-month surcharge | The 30-year mortgage rate crossed 7% last week for the first time in 19 months. This week it hit 7.28%, the highest since November 2023 and the biggest one-week jump in four years. A year ago it was 6.34%.
It is not the highest ever. In 198... |
| Oct 21, 2026 | Real estate agents say they are holding their ground, their expenses say otherwise | 19% vs. 1.9%: This is the number nobody’s talking about. That’s not a typo. According to NAR’s 2026 Member Profile, median agent business expenses rose 19% to $9,530, up from $8,010. Median gross income rose 1.9% to $59,200, up from $58,100... |
| Oct 21, 2026 | AIPAC retreats from candidate endorsements and direct giving as political backlash grows | AIPAC will stop endorsing candidates, making direct PAC contributions and earmarking donations to candidates, reversing a strategy it adopted in 2021.
The group said it will continue operating its United Democracy Project super PAC while sh... |
| Oct 20, 2026 | The borrowers traditional underwriting wasn’t built for | Mortgage lending has spent the last several years focused on interest rates, affordability and, more recently, artificial intelligence. Those are important conversations. But another shift may prove just as significant over the next decade:... |
| Oct 15, 2026 | What midterms could mean for Realtors and the housing market | Housing affordability remains a central issue in the lead-up to November’s midterm elections — with congressional and gubernatorial candidates proposing changes to homebuyer assistance, mortgage financing, property taxes, zoning and housing... |
| Oct 15, 2026 | The real reason teams outperform solo agents: someone always answers | A showing runs 15 minutes over. A signing takes longer than expected. Somewhere in that stretch, an agent’s phone rings, then rings again, then stops. By the time there’s a free minute to call back, the person on the other end has usually m... |
| Oct 15, 2026 | NAR/NARI Report Estimates 83% Cost Recovery for Closet Renovations | Strickland's Home shares national remodeling and homebuyer-preference research as coastal Carolina homeowners evaluate functional storage projects. WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES, October 15, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Stric... |
| Oct 15, 2026 | What midterms could mean for agents and the housing market | Housing affordability remains a central issue in the lead-up to November’s midterm elections — with congressional and gubernatorial candidates proposing changes to homebuyer assistance, mortgage financing, property taxes, zoning and housing... |
| Oct 13, 2026 | The next AI advantage in real estate is remembering the buyer | An agent opens the CRM before calling a prospective buyer. There’s a phone number, a listing and a note saying the inquiry is qualified. The buyer has already spent time explaining their search to an AI assistant, but little of that convers... |
| Oct 12, 2026 | Criminals used 79 dormant domains to impersonate a top real estate team | Real estate professionals spend thousands of dollars generating leads and building recognizable brands. But forgotten website domains can become an overlooked security risk — allowing criminals to impersonate agents and brokerages in emails... |
| Oct 10, 2026 | Myrtle Beach Buyers Are Asking AI Where to Buy New. Here’s What It Misses. | Share
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Home shoppers looking for new construction increasingly start with a question instead of a search filter. They type something like “new-home communities near Myrtle Beach under $400,000 with a pool” into ChatGP... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | Civil rights groups warn private listings could widen housing inequities | According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), about 90% of home sellers in the United States are white. That demographic disparity reflects a complicated history. For much of the 20th century, redlining, racial covenants, and oth... |
| Oct 7, 2026 | A third of renters say they’ll never afford a home—here’s what’s holding them back | For a third of U.S. renters, owning a home feels like a lost cause.
That’s according to the latest CNBC/SurveyMonkey quarterly survey, in which 34% of renters selected “I want to own a home, but I will never be able to afford it” as a respo... |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Cold call cost-per-deal benchmarks are leaving out most of the math | Cold-call cost-per-deal benchmarks are leaving out most of the math. Have you ever thought really deeply about the true cost of having people book appointments for you from the leads you are generating?
A lot of team leads and brokers ask m... |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Why real estate agents are mentoring college athletes — and getting referrals | What began in as a small experiment in Salt Lake City and has since grown into a national program connecting college athletes with real estate licensing and mentorship.
Katy Cookston, who now directs NIL Real Estate from her Keller Williams... |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Your best producer is the hardest person in the building to read | In a commission business, leadership watches one signal. Production. It is objective, it updates daily, it is already on a dashboard and it decides compensation, territory and standing. Nobody has to be told to look at it.
The last four yea... |
| Oct 2, 2026 | Private listing ecosystems could deepen the housing affordability crisis | It was encouraging to see lawmakers make good on their promise to prioritize homeownership earlier this year with the bipartisan passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. But more than two months later, it has become clear that the c... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Average long-term US mortgage rate churns upward to its highest level in nearly 3 years at 7.28% | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate jumped this week to its highest level in nearly three years.
The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortga... |
| Sep 30, 2026 | AI can speed up listing media, but buyers notice when it is off | Real estate’s AI media problem is quality control—not content volume I have had buyers tell me, after viewing a home, that the kitchen’s color did not match what they saw in the listing photos. We had increased the color intensity and sharp... |
| Sep 30, 2026 | Older home sellers need better guidance, not faster closings | Real estate has developed a love affair with speed. Respond instantly. Automate the follow-up. Shorten the sales cycle. Remove the friction. In many transactions, those improvements serve the client well.
But when an older homeowner is sell... |
| Sep 22, 2026 | Why more real estate agents are getting their mortgage loan originator license | A buyer signs a purchase agreement with their agent, then gets handed off to a loan officer they’ve never met. From there, the agent is mostly on the outside looking in, texting for updates, hoping the underwriter doesn’t ask for one more d... |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Mortgage rates brush 7%, weighing on buyers, sellers and further straining a bleak housing market | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer
Home shoppers holding out for relief from rising mortgage rates may be in for a long wait.
The weekly average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate home loan has been risin... |
| Sep 17, 2026 | The wrong levers | Conversations can change history. Don’t believe me? Look at trigger leads as a case study.
Who’d have ever thought that a problem first evidenced by complaints from rank-and-file loan originators would escalate into a full legislative effor... |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Fed rate hike likely means more expensive credit cards and mortgages, but savers may rejoice | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve just raised the cost of money — bad news for borrowers, good news for savers.
The Fed increased its benchmark interest rat... |
| Sep 10, 2026 | US home sales weaken to slowest pace in more than a year as mortgage rates, home prices climb | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates an... |
| Sep 5, 2026 | Independent Brokerages Are Winning the Real Estate War — And Here’s Why | Share
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Lifestyle International Realty COO Irving Weighs In on the Battle Between Community-Driven Brokerages and Corporate Giants
NEW JERSEY, September 2026 — As venture-backed technology platforms and national franch... |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Authority compounds on LinkedIn. Absence compounds, too. | Earlier this month, about a hundred loan officers found out their company was being sold. Envoy Mortgage was buying Mason-McDuffie’s distributed retail operation, a billion dollars of production moving with it, closing by the end of August.... |
| Sep 2, 2026 | How to buy a home before your old one sells (without going broke) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
It might feel like a high-wire act at times, but it’s absolutely possible to buy a new home before you’ve sold your old one.
Vickey Barron, a veteran real estate broker at Compass in New York, has ... |
| Aug 31, 2026 | The real estate unbundling trend is moving past commission debates | Nearly two years after real estate compensation rules underwent their biggest overhaul in decades, we finally have enough distance to see what was hard to spot in August 2024: the rules changed, but the basic structure of the transaction re... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Labor Department to propose expansion of association health plans, which could lower insurance costs for some workers | The Trump administration is preparing to propose a rule to address the definition of “employer” as it pertains to health plans offered by associations.
Depending on the specifics of the proposal, it could potentially lower costs for certain... |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Cost per lead vs. cost-per-closed deal for real estate teams | I talk to a lot of team leads and most can quote its response time. Under five minutes. First to call wins. I understand why. Most of the industry is terrible at it. A Harvard Business Review audit back in 2011 found the average first respo... |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Investing in the Place We Call Home | It can be hard to leave a house you’ve lived in for more than a quarter century. We make a lot of memories in our homes, but I think it’s even more difficult when you built the house yourself.
I can’t say for certain because I don’t have th... |
| Aug 27, 2026 | Why real estate brokerages keep losing good agents | The agents walking out of your brokerage outproduce the ones you bring in to replace them. Courted’s 2025 recruiting and retention report put numbers on it. Agents who left a brokerage last year were producing $2.11 million a year. The ones... |
| Aug 27, 2026 | MLSs need to expand options for sellers to improve cooperation | The debate over private listings keeps getting framed as a story about brokerages hiding inventory from the market. That framing gets the story backward. The real question isn’t whether homes are being concealed. It’s whether a homeowner, t... |
| Aug 26, 2026 | The boring real estate habits that keep deals coming back | The type of real estate I like is boring. I said it a few weeks ago to a room that came for a session on scaling, and I watched half of them deflate in real time. They came for a lever. I gave them a list of habits that would put a teenager... |
| Aug 25, 2026 | The real estate industry keeps protecting the transaction. Who is protecting the consumer? | Many real estate downturns are followed by promises of consumer-friendly process reform and increased attention on affordability.
As with the subprime mortgage crisis, many believed the ongoing buyer commission lawsuits would totally realig... |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Cash is no longer king in home sales | The share of cash sales during the first four months of this year was 31.4%, down from 32.3% during the same period a year ago
Cash buyers are dropping out faster than the overall market decline.
As the residential real estate market contin... |
| Aug 24, 2026 | Home Depot Thrives on Smaller Projects Amidst Housing Chill | Home Depot delivered strong second-quarter financial results. Sales and earnings outpaced Wall Street projections. Consumers focused on smaller home improvement projects. This trend fueled growth amidst a challenging housing market. High mo... |
| Aug 24, 2026 | NCJAR Launches Senior REALTORS® Resource Network to Connect Seniors with Trusted Housing Resources | NCJAR Launches Senior REALTORS® Resource Network to Connect Seniors with Trusted Housing Resources
NCJAR launches the Senior REALTORS® Resource Network to connect seniors, caregivers, and families with trusted housing resources and local ex... |
| Aug 22, 2026 | Warren Buffett Watch: It’s Buffett, not Abel, who appears to be calling the shots on stocks | (This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.)
Two weeks ago, Berkshire Hathaway reported its huge... |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Millennials keep closest eye on spending: 4 ways to help offset rising costs | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Consumer prices rose 3.5% over the past 12 months, as of June 2026. And while some inflation is normal for a growing economy, many Americans are feeling the squeeze.
More than 4 in 5 Americans (83%... |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Where commercial real estate demand is the highest, according to new data | The National Association of Realtors has released a new index that uses factors in local economies to indicate future demand.
The index looks at more than 300 metropolitan markets, with separate measures for the office, industrial, retail a... |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Bond Market Breaks From Fed: Fiscal Debt Now Drives Long Treasury Yields | By Scott McCain
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| Aug 18, 2026 | Bond yields are climbing. Here’s what that means for mortgages and other consumer borrowing | Resurging fears about inflation are pushing longer-maturity bond yields to multi-decade highs.
The rate on the 10-year Treasury note is the main benchmark for mortgages, auto loans and student debt.
In some cases, consumers could see their ... |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Small projects lift Home Depot quarterly sales, but outlook unchanged in a slumping housing market | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writer
Home Depot’s sales improved during its second quarter as customers focused on smaller projects during the summer months with the U.S. housing sector still mi... |
| Aug 13, 2026 | Private listings face House and Senate scrutiny but Washington can’t sell a home | The private listings fight now has both chambers of Congress. It still stops one door short of the room where your income is decided.
For four months, the fight over private listings has bounced from a Chicago courtroom to federal regulator... |
| Aug 12, 2026 | AI can help sellers list homes, agents still drive net proceeds | Every few weeks a new headline arrives, and it follows the same recipe. A home seller types a handful of prompts into an AI chatbot, lists their home without an agent and reportedly pockets a five-figure sum they would otherwise have paid i... |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Inventory is down year over year, but months of supply says the market is functioning | Conclusion
Overall, not too much is happening in housing if you read all the data together — prices are up just a smidge, home sales are up 2.4% year to date and there is not much growth in inventory. However, when you look at the internal ... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Waiting until fall won’t make homes more affordable, but here’s what will | In the last six years, the typical American home started requiring a much higher salary. Today, according to the Housing Studies’ 2026 State of the Nation’s Housing report, a household needs an income of more than $120,000 to afford the pay... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | US existing homes fall 1.7% in July as record prices, high mortgage rates stifle would be-buyers | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATT OTT, AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed again in July as record prices and the highest mortgage rates in a year prove to be an insurmountabl... |
| Aug 10, 2026 | ENRG Realty offers health insurance for agents nationwide | ENRG Realty is offering its real estate agents access to medical, dental and vision insurance plans nationwide with no waiting periods or annual enrollment windows, the virtual boutique brokerage announced on Monday.
The coverage is positio... |
| Aug 7, 2026 | The renovation generation: Why millennials are spending more on home projects than anyone else | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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| Aug 7, 2026 | The AI feature race is over. Real estate agents need tools they can trust. | An AI button sits on nearly every real estate platform today. CRMs draft follow-up emails. Virtual staging tools furnish empty rooms in minutes. Video platforms turn listing photos into polished reels while the agent is still finishing anot... |
| Aug 7, 2026 | K-shaped economy shows up in housing: Luxury sales rise as starter-home buyers struggle | The typical value of a starter home — defined as the lowest-priced third of properties — was $202,000 in May, according to Zillow.
Despite 4.5% more inventory than a year earlier, sales are down 5.4%.
In comparison, the median price of an e... |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Homeowners are paying much more for insurance — and keeping coverage is getting harder | Homeowners insurance premiums have soared and holding onto a policy has gotten tougher, according to a new report by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Consumers saw average premiums rise by 18% in the Northeast, 25% in th... |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Stop saying ‘agent’ and ‘salesperson’ and explain the job like a profession | Every profession sorts itself into a family. Ask a biologist to classify an animal and they do not go by just appearance alone. They go by its underlying traits, the characteristics that reveal what it truly is and where it belongs. I would... |
| Aug 1, 2026 | Buying a condo with a mortgage may soon get more complicated. Here’s why | While lenders already review condo associations for many mortgage applications, they will soon be required to do a much more comprehensive assessment for many transactions.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced the changes in March to better... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Vacant land scams: The FBI warns the threat is growing fast | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
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| Jul 31, 2026 | Who decides where listings show up, Zillow, Compass or the MLS? | The briefs are in. The witnesses are done. A federal judge in Chicago now holds the question the whole industry keeps asking: who controls where a listing gets seen? Here is the part no ruling will answer for you.
Zillow, Compass and Midwes... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | The hidden housing multiplier: Why one better buyer match can unlock the next listing | Everyone agrees that housing has a supply problem.
But the industry measures supply mainly by counting units and listings, while nearly everyone surrounding a housing transaction earns revenue from movement: applications, showings, contract... |
| Jul 28, 2026 | The Sitzer/Burnett data motion is a compliance warning | On July 23, plaintiffs in the Sitzer/Burnett and Gibson cases asked Judge Stephen Bough to enforce something this industry already agreed to. As HousingWire reported, they want the listing and commission data that MLSs promised to hand over... |
| Jul 27, 2026 | c in 2026: What Buyers Actually Want vs. What Sellers Think They Want | Share
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There is a persistent mismatch in how sellers approach home staging and what buyers actually respond to. Sellers tend to default to what they believe looks impressive, which usually means extreme minimalism, st... |
| Jul 27, 2026 | Realtor Associations don’t have a value problem. They have a value-communication problem. | When membership numbers soften, the instinct inside most Realtor associations is to assume the value has eroded. Leaders start asking what new benefit they can bolt on, what shiny program might justify the dues. It is the wrong diagnosis, a... |
| Jul 24, 2026 | How to handle the top producer comparison from sellers | At some point in nearly every listing appointment, a seller raises the comparison: Why hire you rather than the top producer in the market? Most agents experience the question as a threat. It is more useful to read it as a signal that the s... |
| Jul 23, 2026 | The best deal in housing might be a brand-new home—how builders are winning over first-time buyers | Buying a brand-new home with modern finishes, new appliances, a builder warranty and perhaps a community pool doesn’t sound like the most affordable way to become a homeowner.
But in many housing markets, the median newly built home now cos... |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Why your next open house should start with the neighbors | Let me ask you something. When was the last time you treated an open house like a one-day event instead of what it actually is: a long-term investment in the street it sits on?
Most agents do it backward, and I get it. You set up Sunday, ho... |
| Jul 20, 2026 | Behind closed doors: The next phase of Compass’s Code of Ethics complaints against Zillow | As the National Association of Realtors (NAR) frequently stresses, one of the main things differentiating a real estate licensee from a Realtor is the Code of Ethics that Realtors are required to abide by in order to be a member of the trad... |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Homebuyer affordability slipped for fifth straight month, real estate index shows | The income needed to qualify for a mortgage on a median-priced single-family home — $446,400 — was $109,152 in June, according to the National Association of Realtors’ housing affordability index.
While affordability has improved from a yea... |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Average 30-year US mortgage rate climbs to 6.55%, highest level in nearly a year | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level in nearly a year, driving up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers.
The benchm... |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Housing costs, delayed marriage and the first-time buyer squeeze | I spent more than a decade as a real estate broker, and the biggest shift I watched wasn’t just what happened to prices. It was what happened to the conversations.
Early in my career, couples sitting across from me led with the dream: the n... |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Here’s why the housing market is hurting so much this summer | Pending home sales in June, a measure of signed contracts on existing homes, fell 5.4% from May.
Homebuilder sentiment, meanwhile, fell to the lowest level in almost a year.
Those insights into the housing market come as the average rate on... |
| Jul 16, 2026 | The REALTOR® Translating the American Dream for Oregon's Global Workforce | Portland-area real estate broker Rakesh Thomas helps international and relocating professionals navigate Oregon homeownership with cultural understanding, multilingual support, and industry leadership.
PORTLAND, Ore., July 16, 2026 /PRNewsw... |
| Jul 13, 2026 | NAR guidance clarifies office exclusive listings, MLS rules | The National Association of Realtors (NAR) released updated guidance last week clarifying how office-exclusive listings and pre-marketing options must operate within multiple listing services, reinforcing brokers’ duties to follow local MLS... |
| Jul 12, 2026 | Housing Law Tackles Affordability Crisis, Faces Gradual Impact | The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act is now law. It passed Congress with bipartisan support. President Trump did not sign it, citing other legislative priorities. The law targets soaring home prices. It aims to increase housing supply. Prov... |
| Jul 11, 2026 | New housing law targets affordability — what it means for homebuyers and sellers | The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which aims to increase the housing supply and address affordability, was passed by Congress on June 23 and automatically became law on Saturday after President Donald Trump declined to sign or veto it.
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| Jul 10, 2026 | Trump says he won’t sign housing bill, which would become law automatically | President Donald Trump said he will not sign a housing bill that Congress passed in June with bipartisan backing.
The bill will automatically become law if Trump does not veto it by late Friday night.
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| Jul 10, 2026 | Trump will let bipartisan housing bill become law without signing in protest over GOP voter ID law | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MICHELLE L. PRICE and JOSH BOAK
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will let the bipartisan housing bill approved by Congress become law without his signature, saying Friday that he was ref... |
| Jul 10, 2026 | Rechat’s Testimonials tool turns client praise into marketing content | Rechat has launched Testimonials, a new feature that enables real estate agents to collect, manage and use client reviews directly within the Rechat platform.
The feature is integrated alongside contacts, transactions and marketing tools, a... |
| Jul 9, 2026 | Average 30-year US mortgage rate rises to 6.49%, pushing up homebuyers’ borrowing costs | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate drew closer this week to 6.5%, pushing up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers.
The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mor... |
| Jul 9, 2026 | US home prices hit an all-time high as sales slow and mortgage rates rise | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in June, but a key measure of home prices climbed to an all-time high, adding to affordability challenges for prospe... |
| Jul 9, 2026 | June home sales disappoint as prices reach an all-time high | Sales of previously owned homes in June dropped 2.4% from May.
Inventory at the end of June was 1.56 million units, down 0.6% from May but 1.3% higher than June 2025.
One quarter of all sales were all-cash, down from 29% last year.
High mor... |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Daily Stock Market Live
Stocks gain as chipmakers rise, oil prices fall: Live updates | Stocks rose on Thursday, supported by a jump in semiconductors and a fall in oil prices, as equity markets tried to recover despite renewed U.S.-Iran tensions.
The Nasdaq Composite gained 1.2%, while the S&P 500 rose 0.8%. The Dow Jones... |
| Jul 8, 2026 | Now’s the time: Market forces and AI align to make property management an appealing option for brokers | The residential real estate market today is fundamentally different than just a few years ago. In April, 5.8% of homes were taken off the market, reaching delisting rates not seen since March 2020. Plus, economic uncertainty and rising infl... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Realtors slam focus on trademark policing: ‘Is this really the next hill NAR is going to stand on?’ | When the National Association of Realtors (NAR) asked its members to help the trade group identify misuses of its trademarks during the association’s legislative meeting late last month, it unsurprisingly stirred up reactions among real est... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Far more real estate agents now report seeing a balanced market, CNBC Housing Market Survey finds | In the second quarter of the year, 44% of real estate agents surveyed in CNBC’s Housing Market Survey said they were seeing a balanced market between buyer and seller.
Agents who reported at least one price cut to active listings dropped dr... |
| Jul 6, 2026 | NAR tells members to report Realtor brand misuse | As part of its three year strategic plan, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) promised members the trade group would work to “elevate” the Realtor brand. For the first half of the year, NAR’s vision for exactly what this effort would... |
| Jul 2, 2026 | Do open houses work? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Depending upon who you ask, the traditional weekend open house is one of the biggest real estate hoaxes ever perpetrated on the real estate consumer or a tried-and-true marketing method.
In reality... |
| Jul 2, 2026 | America 250 is a turning point for American homeownership | When Americans think about infrastructure, they think about roads, bridges and broadband. But they should also think about housing. A home is the foundation from which families build their lives: where children grow up, neighbors become com... |
| Jul 2, 2026 | Celebrating Colorado’s 150th: homeownership and the American dream | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Jay Kalinski
As Colorado celebrates 150 years of statehood and the nation marks 250 years of American independence, it’s a good time to reflect on a cornerstone of the American Dream: homeowners... |
| Jun 29, 2026 | LIV Sotheby’s International Realty Advisor Justin Black Named to National Association of REALTORS® 30 Under 30 2026 | 1453 Ponderosa Road, Alma, Colorado
Georgia Bar, 41750 N US Highway 24, Granite, CO
364 Gold King Way, Breckenridge, Colorado
348 Jade Road, Silverthorne, Colorado
Earns Web Choice Award by the Largest Margin in Program History
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| Jun 29, 2026 | The best real estate offer is not always the highest price, here’s how to spot risk | The agent who stands out in any market is the one who can read the risk inside an offer, not just the price on top of it. That is a skill, and it is one of the most underrated tools you carry as a real estate professional.
Here is the issue... |