2025

Names to Note: July 2025

Image Each month, Nareit highlights recent executive career moves, board changes, and other notable individual achievements within the REIT and publicly listed real estate...

U.S. Condo Market Struggles in 2025

The U.S. condominium market is showing signs of structural strain in 2025, weighed down by shifting generational preferences, growing inventories, and regional overconcentration. While millennials continue to lead in mortgage applications across the housing sector, older generations are the backbone of condo demand -- offering both resilience and risk in a cooling sales environment, says real estate data...

Rocket returns to profitability in Q2, yields early benefits from Redfin deal

Rocket Companies, the parent of Rocket Mortgage, has returned to profitability despite a challenging second quarter for the mortgage industry, marked by economic uncertainties in the U.S. The company is now focusing on integrating the recently acquired real estate brokerage firm Redfin, which has already shown early benefits. In the second quarter, Rocket reported a GAAP net income of $34 million, a...

Redfin integrates CubiCasa interactive floor plans

Redfin has partnered with CubiCasa to integrate interactive floor plans and virtual tours into its real estate listings. Redfin is the first major home search platform to adopt CubiCasa’s interactive media directly into listings, supporting a growing demand among buyers for visual tools that help to assess a home’s suitability. “A home’s layout can make or break whether it’s the right fit,...

Connecticut firms merge under Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate brand

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gaetano Marra Homes and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Bannon & Hebert have merged operations — expanding their presence across Connecticut and consolidating under the Gaetano Marra Homes name. The merger brings together approximately 150 affiliated sales associates across four offices in Monroe, Bridgeport, Newtown and Middlebury, Connecticut. Plans...

John L. Scott CEO unpacks AI strategies and MLS consolidation

On this week’s RealTrending podcast, host Tracey Velt welcomes Lennox Scott, CEO of John L. Scott Real Estate, a company with nearly a century of legacy and leadership. With close to five decades of industry experience, Scott brings deep insights into both the past and future of real estate. Their conversation spans the transformative impact of artificial intelligence across sectors, the urgent...

Agent count a bright spot for eXp in Q2 2025

The second quarter of 2025 may not have shaken out exactly as the leaders of eXp World Holdings would have liked, but one bright spot was agent count at eXp Realty.  Although agent count was down 5% annually to 82,704 agents, Q2 2025 marked the first time in a year that eXp recorded sequential quarter-over-quarter agent-count growth. “This is a great indication that our strategies and programs...

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