Decade-long accessibility push earns Seattle agent fair housing honor
Home accessibility search standards co-developed by agent Barry Long are being adopted by multiple listing services nationwide.
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Don’t give away your future: Why servicing is becoming a strategic asset
A servicing portfolio gives you access, but it doesn’t automatically create loyalty. This is where customer experience becomes critical.
Florida homebuyers sue Compass over $475 transaction fee
Florida buyers sue Compass over a $475 closing transaction fee, seeking class status for fees charged from June 2022 to June 2026.
KB Home Q2 2026 earnings point to scale vs execution debate
Homebuilding’s mid-year public company earnings season is now looking through the prism of the back half of 2026. Each of the sector’s players had better have put themselves in a good position for some heavy lifting and outperformance, rather than lugging around a forgettable first half. In that light, it’s welcome news that one of […]
Experienced Realtors hold the line in a tough housing market
NAR 2026 Member Profile shows 13 years experience, nine sides in 2025, and affordability as the top buyer constraint at 27%.
Senators push bipartisan plan to ‘save Social Security’
Proposals come as policymakers and financial professionals warn of looming funding shortfalls and confusion about how the program works.
Young buyers are priced out in most U.S. metros, Pew data shows
Buying a first home has gotten materially harder for young adults in most major U.S. metros since 2019, as home values have far outpaced income gains and higher mortgage rates push monthly payments out of reach, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of American Community Survey data. The study focuses on households headed […]
JPMorgan Chase names co-presidents as Dimon succession plan takes shape
JPMorgan Chase has named Doug Petno and Troy Rohrbaugh as co-presidents effective immediately — the clearest step yet in the board’s planning for an eventual successor to CEO Jamie Dimon.
ROAD work ahead
A fiendishly brilliant advertising copywriter working for Benetton during the “hanging chads” Presidential election controversy in 1992 took a circa-1973 Yogi Berraism and transformed it for a New York City billboard on the heavily trafficked northbound West Side Highway. “It ain’t Oval ‘til it’s Oval!” the message read, as the matter made its way up […]
FHFA pushes GSEs to embrace chattel loans in Duty to Serve proposal
The FHFA has proposed replacing its existing Duty to Serve regulation with an outcome-based framework that would change how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac support manufactured housing, affordable housing preservation and rural housing.