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…
CoStar Group, the commercial/residential real estate heavyweight that has come under heavy fire from investors of late, announced in a call with investors Feb. 24 that revenue was up 19% to $3.2 billion in 2025, with CEO Andy Florance fielding questions on how the company would navigate an uncertain future while touting continued investments in…
Virtual megabrokerage eXp, which has long sought to be ahead of the curve on technology in real estate, is seemingly all-in on AI, as executives also touted an ongoing effort to build out and consolidate the company’s platform. Reporting essentially flat agent and broker count at just under 83,000, and a 4% increase in revenue…
As housing experienced some unprecedented levels of affordability and other challenges in recent years, some of the rules of buying and selling have seen a definite shift. As 2026 looks to be shaping up as the year of market stabilization, the question remains on many minds on how fast the rules may see a shift…
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At his first State of the Union address of his second term last night, President Donald Trump had a lot he wanted to cover after a tumultuous first year in office. Clocking in at about an hour and 45 minutes, and over 10,000 words, Trump sprinkled plenty of personal anecdotes and free-wheeling storytelling into a…
The average top-tier mortgage rates dipped below 6% this week, offering up what economists say could be the “psychological push” some buyers are looking for to get them off the sidelines and into a stubborn housing market that continues to be constrained by affordability and inventory challenges. Mortgage News Daily (MND) reported that the average…
Plaintiffs in the largest buyer commission case (known as Batton) filed a motion to intervene Monday in a smaller commission case, Tuccori v. At World Properties, seeking to block preliminary approval of a proposed opt-in settlement by Anywhere Real Estate (a defendant in Batton) that they say would extinguish five years of homebuyer antitrust litigation…
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