2025

In today’s report, new home sales fell short of sales estimates and experienced negative sales revisions, while inventory levels increased, which explains why residential construction is in a recession. However, today’s data doesn’t indicate a crash in new home sales. Instead, it highlights my concerns from December 2024: homebuilders are accumulating a lot of completed units for sale, and they...

Texas-based Goosehead Insurance and Baird & Warner Real Estate have launched a new franchise partnership that will embed home insurance options directly into the real estate transaction process. The venture — named Adaptive Insurance Agency — offers homebuyers access to a broad selection of insurance carriers and guidance from licensed agents as part of their home purchase. “This...

This Seattle couple turned the devastation of fire damage into an opportunity to create the kitchen of their dreams. Working with architect Sara Emhoff and interior designer Abbas Rachaman of Board & Vellum on the renovation, they expanded their existing porch and created strong connections...

There are many factors involved in a renovation project, and each one can prove problematic when it comes to completing the job without issues, but sometimes the biggest challenge is the customer themselves. If you’ve ever had a project where your relationship with the client has become tricky,...

Existing-home sales in the U.S. declined 2.7% month-over-month in June 2025, as persistently high borrowing costs and a constrained inventory environment continued to dampen market momentum. The National Association of Realtors reported an annualized sales pace of 3.93 million units for the month, holding steady year-over-year but reflecting broad regional softness. Despite the sales slump, prices...

Naples Beach Compound Tops 2025's Luxury Home Sales List at $133 Million According to new Redfin research, a beachfront compound in Naples, Florida has set the high-water mark for U.S. residential real estate this year, selling for a record $133 million in April 2025. The nine-figure sale underscores the dominance of Florida and California in the nation's luxury housing market, with every one of the top...

Image CBRE’s Mike Watts says new office deliveries in 2025 to be about 25% of 2019...

Struggling to find a lucrative niche this year? You’re not alone. With leads scarce and deals drying up, you’re probably considering niches you wouldn’t have touched with a ten-foot pole in 2021. Probate, divorce leads, short sales — everything is on the table when you have a mortgage to pay. Leads are leads, right? There’s just one problem: every agent in your office is in the same...

With all the doomsday soundbites about housing, it might be surprising to hear that home prices reached an all-time high today, according to the existing home sales report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). On the bright side, inventory growth has increased in 2025, although this report showed a slight month-to-month decline. This growth in inventory has helped slow down the increase in...

On Wednesday, U.S. Reps. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) and Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) introduced the Identifying Regulatory Barriers to Housing Supply Act. The bipartisan measure aims to increase housing supply by encouraging local governments to examine and reduce restrictive zoning and development policies. “Housing affordability is a major concern for communities nationwide,” said Flood, who chairs the...