Blogs

NAR pulls ARA into legal battle with Umansky’s thePLS.com

The National Association of Realtors has asked the American Real Estate Association to hand over documents relating to the NAR Accountability Project — and ARA is saying 'no.'

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Is the housing market turning a corner? What the numbers say

Windermere’s Principal Economist Jeff Tucker looks at oil, inflation and pending home sales and explains what they could mean for summer home sales.

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Fathom to agents: Beyond deal means income between deals

The deal represents a different kind of vertical integration than the industry has recently seen — one that moves laterally into homeownership itself rather than deeper into the transaction.

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New antitrust suit targets CoStar’s commercial data empire

The case does not target Homes.com, but it lands as CoStar pushes deeper into residential and new construction data.

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Teams That Scale — On Their Terms

As brokerages consolidate and new models reshape the industry, team leaders face a growing challenge: scaling without giving up control. For many of HomeSmart’s most successful team leads, the answer is finding the right balance between autonomy and support. “The 100% model gives us the ability to control expenses and compensation…We want our agents to […]

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Negotiation hasn’t been all bad for real estate brokerages. So why are margins tightening? Intel explores.

More brokerage leaders this year say it's tough to turn a profit. Intel breaks down its recent survey of broker-owners and executives.

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Fello’s co-founder sees abundance, not doom, in real estate AI

Fello co-founder Stephen London discusses why teams are missing deals hiding in their own databases, how AI agent Felix is changing outreach, and what the agentic AI wave means for real estate.

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Now business or future business? Run both, starting this week

Bring balance to your real estate business with these strategies for managing near-term transactions and long-term lead generation from coach Darryl Davis.

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