Canadian-based RARE Real Estate has launched operations in South Florida, marking its official entry into the U.S. market. The move is part of a broader expansion strategy by the fast-growing brokerage, which gained recent attention through its feature on the Amazon reality series “Luxe Listings Toronto.” RARE’s entry into the U.S. market is led by company founder Adam Stern, who has more than...

Glenn Kelman’s wife was starting to get worried. The Redfin founder and CEO’s behavior was unusual lately. He was staying up late into the night exchanging texts with someone. But there was no other woman. Kelman was group texting Varun Krishna, the CEO of Rocket Companies, and Jay Bray, the CEO of Mr. Cooper. They would share their unified vision for transforming the homeownership journey and —...

Discussions about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) have dominated conversations on stage at HousingWire‘s The Gathering. But there seems to be little common ground as some lenders are excited for the chance to scale their businesses to new heights by taking away menial tasks, while others are concerned about information security and job insecurity. Jason Bressler, chief technology officer...

Despite a raft of what might seem like contradictory economic data points and a challenged housing market, the reverse mortgage industry largely proceeded as normal based on key performance metrics for May 2025. Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements dropped by 1% in May to 2,296 loans, despite recent increases in the expected interest rate alongside solid performance from some key lenders....

Choosing beautiful finishes and fixtures for your new kitchen is one thing, but if you get the layout wrong, it won’t function as well as you want it to. Houzz asked three design experts to reveal the 10 most common layout errors that kitchen renovators make and what to do to avoid them....

For years, Minnesota builder Dorian Thompson and O’Hara Interiors senior designer Gabe Lindberg have collaborated on beautiful custom homes. So when Lindberg and her husband decided to replace their tiny lakefront cottage with something more spacious and inviting, it was only natural to turn to...

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South Florida Still Top Target; Texas Emerges as New Key Market A new report from Realtor.com reveals a modest uptick in international interest in U.S. real estate, with 1.9% of the platform's traffic in the first quarter of 2025 coming from global home shoppers -- up slightly from the same period in 2024. However, this overall growth masks notable shifts among individual countries, particularly a sharp...

Private listings and Clear Cooperation (CCP) have been Compass’s headline calling cards over the past several months, but at HousingWire’s The Gathering on Sunday, mergers and acquisitions were the primary focus.  In a conversation with Diego Sanchez, the president of HousingWire, Lacey Conway, the CEO of Latter & Blum and Compass executive vice president of M&A, discussed her firm’s...

Real estate brokerages have had to grapple with heaps of forced change over the past year — legal threats and business practice changes, to a slow housing market and the breakneck pace of technological development. Some wonder if we are on the precipice of a brokerage mass extinction event. Panelists Craig McClelland, James Dwiggins, Linda O’Koniewski and Byron Lazine contemplated this question on...