Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh will lead his first policy meeting next week as investors increasingly question whether interest rates could rise again if inflation remains stubbornly high. The Fed is widely expected to leave rates unchanged, but markets will be closely watching Warsh’s first pres

Google made waves on Thursday, announcing the nationwide expansion of its real estate listing ads. A pilot program version of these listing ads launched in select markets in December 2025 and, at the time, the move caused quite a stir with some fearing the impact this may have on real estate portals

Ivan & Mike Team, a Compass-affiliated ultra-luxury real estate group serving South Florida’s high-end housing market, finished No. 19 among medium-sized teams by sales volume in RealTrends Verified’s 2026 rankings — recording $298.32 million in transaction volume during 2025. Led by co-founders Iva

Guild Mortgage is advocating for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to adopt residual income analysis at scale through ongoing conversations and data sharing. The California-based lender has used this model since 2022 in its “Complete Rate Program” that’s available for government loans. Because Guild retain

For decades, the homebuying journey followed a relatively predictable path. Buyers would visit communities, meet with sales representatives to gather information and gradually move toward a purchase decision. Today, that process looks dramatically different. Modern homebuyers move fluidly between we

Stylecraft Builders, a second-generation-led Texas homebuilder more than four decades in the making, is not letting homebuilding’s underwhelming 2026 Spring Selling Season go to waste.  Nor, in spite of hesitant homebuyer demand plaguing many of Texas’ submarkets, has Stylecraft’s momentum slowed. T

Buffini & Company has added three senior executives — Steve Pacinelli as chief revenue officer, JB Bolton as chief operating officer and Ethan Beute as chief ambassador — as the coaching firm looks to scale its relationship-driven business model in an AI-focused market, the company announced earlier

Rechat has expanded its platform to allow brokerages, teams, technology providers and vendors to build and deploy custom branded applications directly on top of its real estate operating system. Custom app features are available immediately. The initiative builds on work that began more than a year

New York state’s most sweeping reform of a 50-year-old environmental review law is on the books. Gov. Kathy Hochul secured the changes as part of the state budget, cutting red tape on housing construction. Developers, municipalities and environmental advocates are watching to see how the law works i

eXp World Holdings, Inc. has completed its corporate transformation to AGNT, Inc., including a formal name change and a move of its legal domicile from Delaware to Texas, the company announced Thursday. The holding company for eXp Realty, NextHome, FrameVR.io and SUCCESS Enterprises now trades on Na

Long before she became a real estate agent helping lead one of the nation’s top-performing small teams, Molly Horak was spending her days in an infant carrier beneath her mother’s desk. The story has become part of The Horak Group’s family lore — and part of the reason the team’s connection to REMAX

President Donald Trump confirmed Thursday that Bill Pulte’s tenure as acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) will be temporary. He announced on social media the nomination of Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to the permanent position. “Few people anywhere in

On Thursday morning, real estate professionals in Washington state woke up having to comply with a new law requiring them to publicly market their residential real estate listings to all consumers, unless the seller can show doing so would negatively impact their health or safety. The statute, forme

U.S. foreclosure activity continued its gradual annual rise in May 2026 even as filings declined from April, according to ATTOM’s latest Foreclosure Market Report. The report, released Thursday, found 40,355 properties with foreclosure filings — including default notices, scheduled auctions or bank

Every technology adoption cycle reaches a point where the question shifts from “should we?” to “how fast can we?” In mortgage lending, AI has reached that moment. Lenders are deploying AI tools for document processing, income analysis, borrower communication and, increasingly, credit decisioning. Th

Every year, thousands of aspiring real estate agents complete their pre-licensing education only to discover that earning course credit and passing the licensing exam are not the same thing. Industry estimates suggest that only about 50% to 60% of candidates pass the real estate licensing exam on th

As mortgage originators navigate one of the tightest margin environments in a generation, the pressure to slash operational costs has reached a fever pitch. In response, a polarizing debate has emerged across the industry: Can lenders safely cut corners on credit data to achieve short-term line-item

AppFolio has announced a new integration between its Realm-X AI platform and Anthropic’s Claude, enabling property management professionals to trigger and execute operational tasks directly through Claude while maintaining AppFolio’s built-in compliance, accounting and workflow safeguards. The new a

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s push to reshape the state’s housing landscape ended with nary a whimper last week, with no votes as National Homeownership Month began. His sweeping Building Up Illinois Developments plan stalled before the legislature adjourned, leaving the most ambitious housing propo

From teaming up with brokerages to expand private listing networks nationwide, to opening up membership to real estate professionals outside of their traditional service area, to launching joint ventures supplying listing input and distribution technology, MLSs are employing a variety of diverse str