Premier Sotheby’s International Realty names CFO, promotes two Premier Sotheby’s International Realty, headquartered in Naples, Florida, has named and promoted Abigail Tezniarz to chief financial officer and promoted Melissa Morehouse to associate vice president of marketing operations and Frank Russell to associate vice president of creative services.  Tezniarz joined the brokerage in 2004 and has…

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REMAX® has announced Rhode Island-based HomeSmart Professionals has joined its brand. Owned and operated by Dean deTonnancourt, the brokerage will now operate as REMAX Revolution, bringing more than 300 agents from six offices into the network.  “Dean and his agents add to the leading market share REMAX has in Rhode Island, and we’re excited to…

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California Regional MLS (CRMLS) has announced that it is expanding access to RealReports, the property analysis platform powered by the latest AI, to all users at no additional cost.  Previously, RealReports was available as an opt-in product for individual CRMLS Associations via the Product Co-Op, as stated by the MLS. After seeing such enthusiastic adoption…

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Editor’s note: This is part two of a two-part story examining the impact of the Redfin-Compass deal. Read part one here. “Real estate isn’t a transaction. It’s a process.” Those words, from Compass CEO Robert Reffkin on the company’s recent earnings call, were in response to a question about how Compass agents can communicate value…

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Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Judges appear inclined to allow Anywhere copycat settlement to proceed Two federal judges last week denied a series of requests from the Batton plaintiffs—including a motion to intervene in the Tuccori case, a…

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Rayse, Inc. announced RAE (Rayse Assistant Engine), a conversational AI built directly into its Agent Value Platform. Designed to function as a personal assistant that lives on the agent’s phone, RAE lets real estate agents log work, update client journeys and drive the entire platform through natural voice or text conversation, distributed through MLS and…

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After two and a half days of deliberations following a month-long trial in Manhattan federal court before U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, jurors on March 9 convicted luxury real estate brokers and brothers Alon and Oren Alexander, both 38, and Tal Alexander, 39, on all 10 counts of sex trafficking, inducing women to travel for…

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PropStream has announced a new partnership with LoanGeek that allows users to navigate directly to LoanGeek to explore loan options directly based on their project details without disrupting their existing workflow.  “We built this integration to support and help our customers in their real estate journey. With LoanGeek, we simplify the workflow for real estate…

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The New First Showing Is Online

Monday, March 9th, 2026

Above, a listing photo of a room staged by Alexandria Pearl. Homes are not purchased with logic alone. They are purchased with emotion.  Thoughtful staging creates the emotional connection that allows buyers to envision their life unfolding within a space. I often refer to it as the “Disney effect” for homes. It’s about creating an…

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Brown Harris Stevens has announced that agent Chloe Chasanoff has returned to the firm from fellow Manhattan-based brokerage Magnetic RE. Chasanoff will be based out of Brown Harris Stevens’ West Side office in Manhattan. Brown Harris Stevens shares that Chasanoff first joined the company in 2018. She grew up in a real estate family, surrounded…

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