FNF Family of Companies has hired nine experienced professionals across its New England agency operations during the first quarter of 2026, adding senior underwriting and sales capacity in Massachusetts and the broader region, according to an announcement earlier this week. The additions, announced by the company, are intended to strengthen underwriting support, agency relations and commercial capabilities...

Visibility used to win. Now it’s just noise. For the past 20 years, real estate agents have been told the same thing: build your personal brand. Post consistently. Shoot video. Be everywhere. The belief was simple — if people saw you often enough, they would eventually do business with you. And for a while, that worked. But the environment that made that strategy effective has changed, and...

This Trending Now story features the most-saved bedroom photos uploaded to Houzz between Dec. 15, 2025, and March 15, 2026.A cozy, calming bedroom designed for relaxation is a goal many homeowners share, and these inspiring spaces offer plenty of ideas for achieving it....

Image Gardner says REITs can now extract insights from leases and other unstructured data sources that were previously difficult to...

Image Mike McTiernan of Hogan Lovells discusses evolving SEC engagement, disclosure burdens, and opportunities to improve capital...

Image First quarter REIT performance and upcoming trends to help benchmark and analyze exposure within the sector were the focus of the April 7 FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Indexes in Review & What’s Next...

Artificial intelligence is expected to significantly reshape the global real estate industry, a sector often valued in the hundreds of trillions of dollars when including residential, commercial, and land markets worldwide. While real estate has historically lagged other industries in adopting new technologies, advances in AI are accelerating automation, compressing timelines, and changing how value is...

True Footage has raised a $40 million Series C round led by Cox Enterprises’ Socium Ventures that will fund expansion of its staff appraiser model and its data and analytics platform for lenders and consumers. True Footage launched in 2021 with a thesis that appraisal quality and turn times could be improved by combining W-2 staff appraisers with standardized data collection and software rather than...

The use of artificial intelligence in residential contracting is still in its early stages, with only a minority of contractors fully integrating AI into their workflows. That said, interest in leveraging new technologies is steadily increasing across the industry. That was one of the main findings from ServiceTitan’s 2026 Residential State of the Trades report released on Tuesday. The report...

California lawmakers have been at the forefront of zoning reforms to increase housing supply and affordability. New legislation filed Tuesday would put the state on the path to joining single-stair reform that other states and cities have already adopted. Assemblymember Alex Lee’s newly filed bill proposes increasing housing construction by reforming California’s building code to allow mid-rise...