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Image Tom Fisher described how market volatility, technology adoption, and urban demand trends are shaping Pebblebrook’s investment...

Funding Aimed to Accelerate Global Real Estate Platform Development and Growth World Property Markets, a wholly owned portfolio company of Miami-based real estate technology developer World Property Ventures, announced this week that it is preparing to launch a major funding round in the second half of 2025. The capital raise is intended to accelerate the development and global deployment of the company's...

Despite ongoing challenges in new loan originations, commercial and multifamily mortgage debt levels in the U.S. continued to climb in the first quarter of 2025, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's (MBA) latest Commercial/Multifamily Mortgage Debt Outstanding quarterly report. Total commercial and multifamily mortgage debt outstanding rose by $46.8 billion, or 1.0%, to reach a record $4.81...

Image Flynn joined the 500 th episode of the REIT Report to discuss Kimco’s strategy and...

Kyler Ferris — the founder of Ferris Realty in Conroe, Texas — has rejoined eXp Realty, bringing with him a 45-agent team and a reported sales volume of $164 million in 2024. The move marks a return to the national brokerage after Ferris Realty’s brief stint as an independent firm. Ferris, whose “Living in Houston Texas” YouTube channel reportedly accounted for nearly half of his team’s...

As more companies embrace the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into their business- and customer-facing operations, a concern has emerged among firms focused on delivering services to older people AI training typically occurs with younger staffers, who could then incorporate unconscious institutional biases that might leave seniors feeling alienated from the technology. Representatives...

The countdown is on to Zillow’s new listing standards policy, which bans publicly marketed private listings. While it’s possible for agents at any firm to end up with a banned listing, most industry observers expect that agents at Compass — a vocal critic of the Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP) and Zillow’s policy — will face the greatest impact.  As it currently stands, roughly 7,000 private...

The housing affordability crisis often conjures images of coastal urban cities with acute housing supply shortages and heavy land-use regulations. While these places do tend to have the highest home prices, it’s not where costs are rising the most. That’s according to a sprawling new study from JPMorgan Chase that examines affordability from a number of different angles, with a particular focus on...

Aging in place is gaining momentum among older homeowners, and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has taken notice. The organization recently reported that 73% of homebuilding industry leaders say that requests for aging-in-place features have significantly or somewhat increased in the past five years, while 56% of remodelers are involved in home-modification work related to aging in...

Zillow surveyed over 4,000 buyers to find out which paint colors influence sale...