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Will rising inventory dampen New England’s summer housing market heat wave?
Housing market conditions in New England are currently some of the hottest in the nation. But while the region’s housing market is still strong compared to many regions, things have slowed compared to a year ago.
Long game: How Paradigm Advisory built a New York real estate powerhouse
For founding parters Scott Hustis and Mark Jovanovic, their 20-year journey is not just a story of survival, it’s a blueprint for success.
July jobs report miss puts September rate cut and lower mortgage rates in play
I believe that if the Federal Reserve had this jobs report in hand two weeks ago, they would have cut rates in the last meeting.
Blue Ridge Bankshares is selling its mortgage banking division
Blue Ridge confirmed that the division, currently operating as Monarch Mortgage, is being sold to an unrelated third-party mortgage company.
Rocket is acquiring Redfin’s huge flow of purchase leads. Can the mortgage giant convert them?
It seems that everyone in mortgage and real estate has an opinion about Rocket Mortgage‘s pending $1.75 billion deal for Redfin. At the ICE Experience 2025 conference, the halls of the Wynn casino were replete with downright spicy takes.
First-time homebuyers becoming first-time home sellers
Many pandemic-era homebuyers are rethinking their decisions, citing changing lifestyles, financial miscalculations and market conditions.
Sherry Chris urges brokers to stick with NAR in 2025
“I think about these brokers and associations that want to decouple and I wonder why. If they’re listening to this podcast, let’s give it a chance. Don’t do anything yet. Let’s give it a chance and see how we can all work together.”
Crye-Leike wants to be covered by NAR’s settlement, but rankings data says otherwise
The firm believes it should be covered by NAR’s settlement, which protects all real estate brokerages with a sales volume of less than $2 billion in 2022. It claims it is protected under NAR’s settlement because only Crye-Leike Inc. — which the company said did $1.75 billion in sales volume in 2022 — is named as a defendant in the Gibson suit.
Insurance exodus left many properties unprotected from the LA fires
The Wall Street Journal reported that State Farm recently dropped about 9,500 policies in neighborhoods impacted by last month’s wildfires.
