Editor’s Note: Social Skills is a bi-monthly feature in RISMedia’s Daily News focused on social media and digital marketing tips, trends and solutions for agents and brokers. Being successful in your social media marketing is not just about frequent posting of good content, you have to balance the styles and types of content you are…
The headlines about the real estate industry are everywhere. Compass acquired Anywhere Real Estate to create the largest real estate company by agent count. Zillow and Compass are locked in a Goliath-versus-Goliath legal battle over private listings. A wave of RESPA-related lawsuits alleges undisclosed referral kickbacks between real estate agents and mortgage companies. And then…
Housing construction has faced a plethora of challenges in recent years, as the country falls further behind in the number of homes needed to meet demand. The latest data from Realtor.com® has found these challenges once again widened the “housing supply gap,” with the future looking uncertain without “meaningful” policy changes. Realtor.com’s 2026 Housing Supply…
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. After defeat in Zillow injunction, Compass wants judge to distinguish MLS power In two major legal battles over private listings, Compass is seemingly seeking to draw a distinction between listing service market power…
Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s biweekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it every other Friday afternoon. Michelle Bowman, a governor at the Federal Reserve and the Fed’s Vice Chair for Supervision, told the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, February 26 that she intends to announce an update to the Basel…
In the culmination of what was a busy year for Rocket Companies, after acquiring both Redfin and Mr. Cooper, the company detailed another large milestone in its recent earnings call with investors—a partnership with Compass. In its own recent earnings call, Compass CEO Robert Reffkin dropped the news that it had entered into a three-year…
Compass used its fourth-quarter 2025 earnings call to unveil a sweeping three-year exclusive alliance with Rocket Companies that will push the brokerage’s private and coming-soon listings onto Redfin—a direct shot at the “Zillow ban” just weeks after a federal judge handed Compass a significant setback in its antitrust lawsuit against the portal. Under the deal,…
United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) has, during its previous quarterly earnings calls in 2025, touted a strong performance. Despite a year-over-year decline in annual net income, Q4 did not break this winning streak. During Q4 2025, UWM originated $49.2 billion in loans, compared to $41.7 billion in Q3 2025 and $38.7 billion in Q4 2024. UWM…
The cold of winter slows many things down, but the frosty season should not keep you from trying to heat up your sails. Even if you work from a home office and don’t have to worry about that commute during the winter, real estate professionals (especially ones with open houses to show) still spend plenty…
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Real estate professionals can be the first line of defense for upholding fair housing laws and principles, and a new bill under debate in Massachusetts wants to ensure that agents know how to perform this job. The current draft of the legislation, which has been backed by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors® (MAR), mandates that…
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