by Beth McGuire | Aug 18, 2026 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Vishal Garg, founder and former CEO of tech-focused mortgage disruptor Better, briefly was the “main character” of the industry back in 2021—and not in a good way. His casual, chaotic Zoom firing of 900 people right before the Christmas holiday went viral, picked up...
by | Aug 18, 2026 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Economic uncertainty continues to push builders to temper their expectations (and pace of construction) based on the latest monthly new residential construction report by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Bureau’s report for July states that privately owned housing starts...
by | Aug 18, 2026 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Housing transactions happen for a lot of reasons that real estate professionals are intimately familiar with—new job, new baby, new marriage. In the aggregate, though, most of these events can be classified as “household formations”—in simple terms, a new family is...
by | Aug 18, 2026 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
The mid-to-late summer housing market appears to be plodding along, as pending activity in July slipped to a low for the year, according to the latest data from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). NAR’s Pending Home Sales report found that sales dipped 2.3%...
by | Aug 17, 2026 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
The Real Brokerage and RE/MAX—one of the world’s leading franchisors of real estate brokerage services—recently announced that shareholders of both companies approved Real’s proposed acquisition of RE/MAX at their respective special meetings, moving the major...
by | Aug 17, 2026 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Builder sentiment remains muted from economic and geopolitical uncertainty, elevated mortgage rates and rising construction costs, with the latest data and analysis from homebuilders painting an overall still-muddled picture of near-term housing demand and...