Michigan-based Clients First Realtors of Canton has joined the Real Estate One Family of Companies. Founded in 1995, Clients First has operated within Michigan for more than 25 years. “Clients First Realtors’ values align closely with our own, especially when it comes to giving back to the communities where we live and work,” said Dan […]
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Dave and Patricia Smith — a husband-and-wife real estate team with more than two decades of experience in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia region — have joined Compass. The pair has closed more than $500 million in career sales volume, averaging about $50 million annually. They have consistently ranked among the top 1% of
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Coldwell Banker Realty has added Oscar Arellano, one of Miami-Dade’s top-producing real estate professionals, and the Oscar Arellano Team to its Coral Gables, Fla. office. Arellano joins from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices EWM Realty — bringing more than 20 years of experience and nearly $1 billion in career home sales. Arellano launched his real estate career
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Artificial intelligence is elbowing its way into real estate, promising efficiency while threatening the very thing agents trade on: human connection. For Jeff Funk in Orlando and Michael Franco in New York City, the daily experiment isn’t whether to use AI, but how far to lean in without losing authenticity. Funk, leader of eXp Realty-affiliated
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As the real estate industry undergoes rapid change, questions around listing display, agent attribution, and new technology are reshaping how consumers connect with agents. Andy Stearns, Senior Vice President, Sales at Homes.com, speaks with us about building scalable teams, creating an agent-first platform, and how his experience leading growth at large organizations informs Homes.com’s go-to-market
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Welcome back to Tech Pulse — HousingWire‘s weekly series rounding up the latest in technology news, including tools, integrations and trends that impact mortgage and real estate. Here’s what happened this week: Where Are They Now? Looking back at the first class of Tech Trendsetters As HousingWire opens nominations for the 2025 Tech Trendsetters award, we’re looking back at the
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Nēv Schulman, known for hosting MTV reality show “Catfish,” has joined Coldwell Banker Warburg (CBW) as a real estate agent, the brokerage announced Thursday. His father, Robert Schulman, has been a broker at the firm for more than 30 years and recorded more than $10 million in 2024 volume with an average sale price of
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Top-producing real estate agent Mary Bee has affiliated with Coldwell Banker Realty’s office in Burlingame, Calif., the company announced. She was previously affiliated with RE/MAX Capital in San Mateo. In 2024, Bee closed 27 transactions totaling more than $74.2 million in sales volume — and has surpassed $1 billion over her 40-year career. Mary Bee
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From business practice changes, to a slowing housing market, to rapidly advancing technology, real estate agents have had to adapt quite a bit over the past few years. Still, homebuyers find them more important than ever. Data from Cotality shows that while more than 500,000 agents have entered the industry over the past decade, home
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Nationally, existing home sales remain muted even as housing inventory grows, according to a new First American analysis of the 75 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Inventory in July was nearly 20% higher than a year ago, yet the flow of new listings rose only 5% compared with 2024. That distinction matters, said Odeta Kushi, deputy
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