RE/MAX purchases Compass’ North Shore offices in Chicago

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.

Mr. Cooper shareholders approve merger with Rocket Companies

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.

America’s homeowner population declines for the 1st time since 2016

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.

$475,000 Homes in New York, Ohio and Kentucky

A former schoolhouse in Canaan, a semidetached house in Columbus and a wood-frame house in Louisville.

The Teachers Lurking in Your Garden: Hungry Rabbits and Ancient Insects

Tending to a garden provides a lifelong education in science and wonder, if you get in the dirt and look closely.

How 1 agent pivoted when his social media leads peaked

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.

How to escape the secret agent trap and embrace visibility

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.

Single-family rentals continue to grow as a desirable asset class

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.

What are the basics agents should be getting back to in 2025? Pulse

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?

How Glenn Sanford built eXp into a billion-dollar brokerage

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.

You’re broke because you don’t track these 3 lead-gen metrics

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

RMLS launches an AI use agents can get behind: getting paid

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.

Fed Governor Lisa Cook didn’t commit mortgage fraud: attorneys

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."

Trump administration ‘in no rush’ to do Fannie, Freddie IPO this year

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.

Texas bans some foreign buyers from purchasing real estate

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.

NAR fires back at Mauricio Umansky’s PLS in new legal filing

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.

Stephen Muss, Developer Who Helped Revive Miami Beach, Dies at 97

The scion of a New York family of builders, he rescued the Fontainebleau hotel from bankruptcy, spurring a real estate boom.

D.I.Y. Repairs Turned Into a Gut Renovation in Philadelphia

A couple of architects liked their rowhouse so much that they transformed it two different times to suit their evolving needs.

‘If our nurses, firefighters, and teachers can’t live here, then our community stops functioning’

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

The 90-day restart your real estate pipeline needs

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

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