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Purchase loan demand eased last week, but rates are expected to keep falling on a new report showing there are more people unemployed than there are job openings for the first time since the pandemic.

RE/MAX has purchased Compass's Chicago North Shore office locations, Inman learned on Wednesday. Compass offloaded the brick-and-mortar locations as a result of its $444 million acquisition of @properties Christie's International Real Estate, which closed in January.

Rocket hopes the $9.4 billion deal will help it capture 20 percent of all mortgage refinancing and wrest back its title as the nation's biggest mortgage lender from rival United Wholesale Mortgage.

During the second quarter of 2025, the number of homeowner households in the U.S. dipped by 0.1 percent year over year to about 86.2 million households while the number of renter households grew by 2.6 percent to roughly 46.4 million households.

Ian Grossman hit a high point of gaining leads through social media that coincided with the Austin market hitting its pandemic peak. Once the market cooled and those leads started to fall off, he pivoted by adjusting his social strategy and nurturing his database.

Don't be a secret agent in your market. Coach Darryl Davis shares why being visible can be fun, fulfilling and vital to the growth of your real estate business.

Growth in the single family rental asset class, Michael Zaransky writes, reflects lasting demographic realities, housing affordability constraints, and evolving cultural preferences around mobility and stability.

Forget new fangled bells and whistles to run your real estate business. What are the tried-and-true rules of the game that agents should focus on now?

In this episode of Real Estate Insiders Unfiltered — exclusively on Inman — the founder and CEO of eXp World Holdings gets raw and unfiltered about his journey from housing crash to CEO.

When you start tracking these three lead-generation metrics, Josh Ries writes, you set yourself up for top performance in any market cycle.

Real estate agents in Oregon belonging to Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS) will be a bit quicker to verify the integrity of their deal documents thanks to the latest artificial intelligence offering by Restb.ai.

Hundreds of economists say Trump adminstration's move to fire Cook "threatens the fundamental principle of central bank independence and undermines trust in one of America’s most important institutions."

Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Schumer and Cory Booker have asked federal regluator to pause any efforts to reprivatize Fannie and Freddie and study potential impact on mortgage rates.

The law that went into effect on Monday prohibits individuals and companies from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia from buying or leasing property for more than one year.

The trade association essentially denied all allegations that The PLS made against it, arguing that Clear Cooperation and NAR policies are "lawful, justified, procompetitive [and] pro-consumer," and that they were conducted with NAR's legitimate business interests in mind.

Workforce housing initiatives offer one part of the affordability solution for discouraged buyers, but still fall short of the need.

Broker and lead-gen consultant Josh Reis outlines the 5×3×90 Program, a zero-dollar way to restart a quiet real estate pipeline.

From Taylor Swift’s viral engagement moment to Cracker Barrel’s rebrand misstep, timing, tone and cultural fluency shape brand perception.