The National Association of Realtors® announced it has won Meta’s 2026 Agency Award for Best Use of Automation for the innovative use of AI-powered audience technology to connect more effectively with prospective first-time homebuyers. The Meta Agency Awards recognize agencies and advertisers that use Meta’s advertising solutions in innovative ways to produce measurable business results,…
Pamela Jowers District Director/State Broker Fathom Realty Mission Viejo, California https://pamelajowers.fathomrealty.com Region served: California Years in real estate: 15 Number of agents: Just under 600 Favorite part of your job: The people. I enjoy building relationships, earning the trust of clients and helping them make confident decisions. There’s nothing quite like seeing a client’s excitement…
Online national real estate firm Address Realty USA has announced that Eddie Sturgeon has joined the company as chief growth officer, aiming to strengthen the company’s leadership team as it expands its national brokerage and consumer platform strategy. Sturgeon brings over 18 years of experience in helping real estate organizations grow both domestically and internationally.…
Have you seen this article? If not, you need to read it. And, sorry, but it’s going to make you mad. “I Tried to Sell My House With a Chatbot – Over five frantic days, I gambled my family’s life savings on a hunch that A.I. could outperform a real estate agent.” You need to…
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The majority of listings in the Chicago area disappeared from Zillow this morning, around eight hours after a midnight deadline set by local MLS Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), marking a dramatic escalation in a bitter, high-stakes dispute over restrictions on “private listings” that is playing out nationwide. A sharply-worded announcement from MRED that went…
Broker Public Portal (BPP) and Realtors Property Resource® (RPR®) have announced a new collaboration that will bring RPR’s Realtors Valuation Model® (RVM®) to Cribio, BPP’s consumer home search platform, for participating MLSs and associations that choose to enable the feature. The collaboration connects two industry-backed platforms focused on delivering accurate property data, transparency and consumer…
Above: HomeServices of America CEO Chris Kelly at RISMedia’s CEO & Leadership Exchange Event in 2025. Minnesota-based brokerage giant HomeServices of America and Texas-based franchisor Keller Williams has announced they are joining a “listing data interface” that will replace MLS entry with a “controlled, brokerage-level environment,” while still promising full support and compliance with local…
Above: NextHome Co-CEO James Dwiggins and eXp Realty CEO Leo Pareja Virtual-focused brokerage eXp announced it is buying NextHome, in a move that pairs yet another high-growth tech-focused company with a more traditional franchisor as the industry rapidly accelerates through an unprecedented period of consolidation. In an announcement today, eXp and NextHome executives characterized the…
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) is settling buyer lawsuits for $52.25 million, opting into a copycat lawsuit in Illinois in what is being described as a “broader” release for all NAR members, brokerages and MLSs. The settlement is meant to resolve claims by homebuyers over the same claims put forward in the Burnett case…
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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