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Mortgage rates and oil prices haven’t skyrocketed — in fact, oil prices and the 10-year yield have tended to fade lower after each headline.

Two plaintiffs have joined a federal class-action lawsuit in Colorado against home equity investment company Unison Agreement Corp. and its affiliates.

Stylecraft Builders lifted sales volume 17% in 2025 to 973 homes, $310 million, and projects 1,100 to 1,200 sales in 2026.

Residential construction input costs jumped in May at their fastest pace in more than three years, putting fresh pressure on builder margins and project underwriting just as many builders were counting on cost stability to offset higher mortgage rates. According to new analysis from the National Ass...

Google is expanding enhanced LSAs for home listings to 50 states, showing listing details and routing leads to local agents.

MISMO launched FRAME, an AI governance toolkit with templates, inventories, and risk tools for lenders, servicers, and vendors.

Op-ed warns private listings can limit buyer reach, weaken price discovery and increase conflicts for agents.

CMLS appointed Jessica Edgerton as CEO effective July 1, joining from LeadingRE where she served nine years as chief legal officer.

Howard Hanna partners with Portside, gaining Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts reach, and expanding to 18 states and 500+ offices.

While AARP agrees Congress must address Social Security, the organization wants lawmakers to do so through traditional legislative processes.

With CrossCountry Mortgage’s deal to acquire Two Harbors Investment Corp. one step closer to the finish line after securing shareholder approval, the focus is shifting to what may be the next major challenge: integrating the businesses.

The new membership platform will give independent firms access to enterprise-grade artificial intelligence-powered operations.

Pareja and Dwiggins say private listings and consolidation threaten MLS access, pushing eXp to expand distribution and AI search readiness.

EXp World Holdings is now AGNT, Inc. The company teased the name change when it updated its Nasdaq ticker to AGNT in May.

The leaders who outperform over a full cycle aren't always the ones who predicted when conditions would improve. They're the ones who stayed close to their business during the hard part, asked better questions and built the habits that let their teams move fast when the window opened.

Brokerage leaders are making increasingly difficult decisions about where their operational investments matter most.

CoStar filed an amicus brief in support of Compass and MRED MLS, saying the portal's pre-marketing program undercuts any criticism it has of private listing networks.

Kimberly Vu pretended to be a real estate agent and took security deposits and first month's rent from dozens of victims.

Rechat is opening its app-building platform to any brokerage, letting teams build and deploy custom tools on top of its MLS integrations, CRM data, and compliance infrastructure — without starting from scratch.

Google is expanding its HouseCanary-powered home-listing ads nationwide, bringing more home listings into mobile search results.