How Monopoly and The Sims Reflect the Housing Market

It’s getting harder to become a homeowner. But in Monopoly, The Game of Life and The Sims, the rules are simple: Play your cards right, and you’ll get a house.

Next question for Opendoor: ‘Kill agent partnership,’ or work with real estate pros?

After a stock rally and CEO ouster, investors are turning their attention to what’s next for Opendoor. Some say the company must work with agents. Others disagree.

What today’s skills-based market demands of real estate agents

The market has shifted. If you’re working the same way you did a year ago, you’re likely getting half the results, coach Verl Workman writes. Talent is rewarded over timing.

How ‘pig butchering’ financial scam puts real estate agents at risk

Scammers prey on the loneliness epidemic and desire for genuine connection, security expert Robert Siciliano writes, a feeling that even the most successful among us can experience.

Making the Most of Their Second Chance in the Bay Area

After the pandemic forced them to leave Oakland, Calif., a couple returned five years later to realize their dream of owning a home there. Would $600,000 be enough?

Homes for Sale in New York and Connecticut

This week’s properties are a five-bedroom 1920 house in Hastings-on-Hudson, and a four-bedroom farmhouse in Redding.

Homes for Sale in Manhattan and Queens

This week’s properties are in Turtle Bay, Hell’s Kitchen and Flushing.

Spike in Florida Condo Supply Is Creating a Buyers’ Market

Inspections mandated after a 2021 building collapse have led to expensive repair costs, forcing many to list their units.

Trump tells Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook to ‘resign now’

The president asked Cook to resign from her post after FHFA Director Bill Pulte accused her of mortgage fraud. Pulte has leveled similar accusations against other political adversaries

How Opendoor’s CEO resignation underscores the power of visibility

Being visible is not optional, communications expert Cristin Culver writes. It's fuel for growth, and now, it's an existential imperative.

Some Momfluencers Are Making Money Online by Helping College Students Master Dorm Life

Influencers are making money online by recommending dorm products and designs to families, who spend thousands of dollars on back-to-college shopping.

How Do You Ask Your Parents to Help You Buy a House?

In today’s tough housing market, some first-time home buyers are looking to their parents for help. Here’s what to know if you plan to do the same.

$2.8 Million Homes in Connecticut, Florida and South Carolina

A stone house in Old Lyme, a midcentury house in Miami and a rowhouse in Charleston

How 1 newbie real estate agent gets 75% of her clients by insulting people on Instagram

Early in her career, Kaitlin Hannig found a supportive group of female real estate agents on Instagram and quickly realized the social platform could help grow her business. Two years later, 75 percent of her business is generated that way.

These agents are ‘drowning.’ AI was supposed to save them

Who really wins when your brokerage uses AI? For broker Holly Brink, tech adoption should never come at the price of personal client service.

Your real estate listing isn’t selling? Consider these 5 factors

If your listing has been sitting on the market for too long, trainer Bernice Ross shares five elements of a successful strategy to get it sold.

How HUD’s English-only policy undermines fair housing

Realtors cannot stand idly by in the face of discriminatory housing policies, coach Darryl Davis writes. It's time to fight for the homeownership rights of non-English-speaking clients and neighbors.

From glass ceiling to glass cliff: Why women leaders still face an uphill battle

Women don’t lack the ability to lead, eXp's Wendy Forsythe writes. What’s missing is the willingness of organizations to give them the same chance at success that men have long been afforded.

Let mortgage lenders pull one credit score, trade group says

The tri-merge system is "an anachronism from the days when there were significant disparities in coverage by the credit bureaus," MBA says in advocating new approach.

Fannie Mae dials back sales expectations by 220,000 homes

Driving the revised forecast are expectations for slightly cooler economic growth and hotter inflation, which could mean mortgage rates come down a little more slowly.

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