The Problem Isn’t Growth. It’s Operations.
Today, many brokerages feel caught between two priorities: growing the business and protecting the agent experience. Too often, growth wins...
Posts by Claudia Larsen
Compass Pressures MLSs Who ‘Double Down’ on Premarket Restrictions With Fiery Open Letter
As a cascade of “premarketing” partnerships and programs sweep through the industry, Compass International Holdings (CIH), Rocket and Redfin have...
Local Investors Outpace Builders in Delivering Affordable Starter Homes: Report
America’s housing affordability crisis isn’t solely caused by too few homes. It’s also because of too few usable ones. A...
New-Home Sales Hit Significant Low Amid Winter Weather and Market Challenges
Winter weather and market constraints put significant downward pressure on new-home sales to start off 2026, according to the latest...
Lioce Properties Group Joins Lamacchia Realty Following Merger
Above, Anthony Lamacchia, Josh Lioce and Jackie Louh Lamacchia Realty announced that Lioce Properties Group, based in Milford, Massachusetts, has...
Teresa Palacios Smith on Embedding Inclusion Into Real Estate’s Largest Brokerage Network
For Teresa Palacios Smith, inclusion is not a program—it is a practice. As chief inclusion and engagement officer at HomeServices...
Washington Bill to Ban Private Listings Signed Into Law
In more news surrounding the hot topic of private listings, a Washington state bill designed to severely restrict private listings...
Bang for Your Buck: Where $400,000 Gets You a Mansion, and Where It Gets You a Studio
Housing affordability—the issue we all know, and definitely do not love. In the past couple years, the national median home...
Home Sales Power ‘Resilient’ 2026, but Pendings Indicate Spring Market May Be ‘Delayed’
Pending home sales saw a slight uptick in February, continuing an optimistic trend ahead of a long-awaited spring boom, according...
Maximizing MLS Strategic Partnerships
For much of my career in real estate, I’ve been told—sometimes directly, sometimes subtly—that there are limits to what an...
What Recent Pre-Marketing Studies Say About Pricing, Policy and Privacy
How can the industry (and you) use data to steer policy and clients in a direction that best serves everyone—whether that is toward “seller choice” or “transparency,” or perhaps both? Read more.
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