Most indie brokers Inman spoke with as news of the Compass and Anywhere transaction unfolded on Monday felt that the brokerages becoming one huge entity would make the indie experience even more attractive to agents.

Andrew Robertson, who ran BBDO Worldwide for 20 years, and his wife, Susan, are selling their six-acre home. The asking price is $13.75 million.

A tour through the Fox News host’s New Jersey beach home

In acquiring Anywhere, Compass would absorb a smattering of business models and a load of debt. But it might gain something its CEO has long sought, observers say: more sway over industry affairs.

Compliance expert Summer Goralik put AI to the test on California real estate law. Here’s what it got right, wrong and dangerously incomplete.

Without a brand, you will spend your career chasing deals. Alyssa Stalker explains why recognition and presence are the difference between hustling harder and selling more.

Bernice Ross shares strategies for showing sellers that real estate staging can add value and save time between listing and going under contract.

The FTC and Department of Justice are expected to scrutinize the impacts of the deal — which would give the merged companies a combined market share of 18 percent

As Realtor Safety Month approaches its end, Robert Siciliano offers a reminder that agent safety requires vigilance and planning.

Agents said the deal gives the combined firms increased bargaining power and could help move the needle in Compass's legal battles.

The proposed merger with Anywhere Real Estate would create a nationwide real estate behemoth.

EMJ Capital's founder posted a thesis on X that Better Home & Finance is "the Shopify of mortgages" with the potential for AI to boost capacity and fuel explosive growth.

Compass has long had a contentious relationship with the National Association of Realtors. Real estate veterans speculated Monday that NAR could thus suffer as Compass grows.

CEO Mickey Alam Khan writes that with its new merger, Compass will finally achieve its goal to become the Amazon of real estate.

Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and D.E.I. in disguise.

The upstart Compass had already grown to the top residential brokerage by sales volume. Now, it's moving to acquire its chief rival.

A new program will put manufactured homes at the center of a statewide effort to make housing more affordable.

Emma Kemper, founder of the design firm Emma Beryl Interiors, and her husband, Benjamin, bought a retreat from Brooklyn and undertook a complete renovation.

A Craftsman in Los Angeles, a farmhouse in Healdsburg and a Moroccan-inspired house in Yucca Valley.

An assistant at the Shinnecock housing office says that perseverance and the personal touch, however unlikely, can work in landing vouchers.