Pending home sales saw a slight uptick in February, continuing an optimistic trend ahead of a long-awaited spring boom, according to the latest data from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). However, this spring boom may now be delayed due to geopolitical tensions, economists warn. NAR’s Pending Home Sales report found that sales grew 1.8%…
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Updates in eXp sexual assault case eXp World Holdings argued in a March 13 motion that it is essentially the wrong defendant. The company says it is a separate corporate entity from eXp…
PropStream announced the return of its 3-day webinar series Connect to Close: Your 2026 Reset. This live webinar series is designed to help agents, investors and wholesalers build disciplined outbound systems that turn PropStream data into consistent conversations and conversations into contracts. A release noted that each day of the webinar series builds logically from…
It was April of 2025 that portal behemoth Zillow announced its “listing access standards,” taking a hard stance against so-called “selective access” to listings. As some brokerages—most notably Compass—pushed for “private exclusive” marketing plans, Zillow argued that properties for sale should be listed everywhere. Just under a year later, the company has joined what has…
Above, Angela Rastellini Angela Rastellini Broker of Record – Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island; Vice President of Transactions Management Lamacchia Realty Waltham, Massachusetts https://www.lamacchiarealty.com Region served: New England and South Florida Years in real estate: 17 Number of offices: 24 Number of agents: 750 Favorite part of your job: Helping people solve problems. Your…
For much of my career in real estate, I’ve been told—sometimes directly, sometimes subtly—that there are limits to what an MLS can be. Limits to how flexible it can be. Limits to how innovative it should be. Limits to how deeply it can integrate into a broker’s or agent’s broader business strategy. Those assumptions are…
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A large housing bill, currently dubbed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, is moving through Congress, but the House and Senate versions are not quite the same package. The bill that passed the House was initially dubbed the Housing for the 21st Century Act, a competing version of the Senate’s ROAD to Housing Act.…
The presence of institutional investors in the single-family housing market has been a lightning rod for controversy. In January 2026, President Trump issued an executive order calling for Congress to take action to limit these investors, and the comprehensive 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (passed by the Senate) includes provisions limiting those investors. However,…
While confidence among homebuilders remains overall negative, there was a slight uptick in positivity in March as some market conditions observed slight improvement, according to the latest data from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). However, the future ahead remains unclear. The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for March saw builder confidence rise…
Most sellers breathe a sigh of relief after accepting an offer. In a perfect real estate world, that means the home’s status can be switched from active to pending, the buyer’s loan will go through with flying colors, the For Sale sign can be removed, and closing day will be within a month or so.
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