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Your brokerage sets the tone for your business, Jessica Souza writes. Here’s how to find the one that aligns with your goals, your culture and your long-term vision.

With the U.S. housing market stagnant, many buyers are eyeing older homes for affordability and location, Andrew Reichek writes, but structural risks make due diligence essential.

Zillow delayed the rollout of its ban on privately marketed listings in the nation’s third largest market, but the portal appears ready to crack down on widely used Private Listing Network.

3rd Circ. Says FBI, US Attorneys Fumbled FOIA Requests  Law360

New Inman contributor and finance expert Sofia Nadjibi offers strategies for overcoming some of the market’s most challenging barriers to helping clients buy their next home. 

Aquilius raises US$1bil for real estate secondaries  The Star | Malaysia

The cash offer platform hired former WarnerMedia executive Chris Carpenter as COO, but expects 'heightened seasonality' through the winter months in targeting a return to a near-term goal of 1,000 transactions per quarter. 

Simon Property Group raises annual real estate FFO forecast on resilient leasing demand  FashionNetwork.com

In her first public speech since President Trump’s attempt to remove her, the economist said she expects a "one-time increase" in prices, with inflation trending back down toward the 2 percent target once "the effects are behind us."

U.S. Economy: Major Problems On 2 Commercial Real Estate Fronts  Seeking Alpha

Follow Up Boss (FUB), owned by Zillow, has updated its terms of service and privacy notice to enable deeper integration and next-generation features designed to help agents work smarter and connect more effectively with clients. The update was driven by the deeper integration between Follow Up Boss and new functionality the company will roll out…

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Just three weeks after its release, “The REAL AI Guide for Real Estate Agents: No Hype. No BS. Just Real ChatGPT Skills You’ll Use Every Day” has reached No. 3 on Amazon’s best-seller list for real estate sales books. Written by Kevin Hawkins, a well known speaker and educator of AI in real estate, the…

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U.S. Black Chambers acquires former BET campus in D.C., plans to lease most of the site  The Business Journals

Above, Gretchen Coley Gretchen Coley grew up poor, waiting tables and doing menial chores to pay her way through the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She took her degree in finance to Wall Street, where she interned long enough to realize that neither trading nor the New York vibe suited her taste for gracious…

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Chester County Homeowners Hold Firm as U.S. Equity Levels Ease in 2025  MyChesCo

The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Compass’s request for Zillow/Redfin documents currently denied  This past week saw new developments in the ongoing litigation between Compass and Zillow, the crux of which is Compass’s objections to Zillow’s new rules that remove listings…

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The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Compass’s request for Zillow/Redfin documents currently denied  This past week saw new developments in the ongoing litigation between Compass and Zillow, the crux of which is Compass’s objections to Zillow’s new rules that remove listings…

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Ahead of the Nov. 18 hearing over its legal challenge to Zillow’s new listing rules, Compass filed a supplemental brief against the portal, accusing it of weaponizing its dominance in the home portal market to crush competition and force home sellers and agents to list properties on its platform first.  In the pre-hearing brief submitted…

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Ahead of the Nov. 18 hearing over its legal challenge to Zillow’s new listing rules, Compass filed a supplemental brief against the portal, accusing it of weaponizing its dominance in the home portal market to crush competition and force home sellers and agents to list properties on its platform first.  In the pre-hearing brief submitted…

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They’re the opposite ends of the home-buying spectrum. One phrase lights up a potential owner’s face, while the other forces a frown. The former is a no-brainer for you, the agent, while the latter can test your ability to keep a client in check. It’s plug-and-play versus quasi-fixer-upper. It is easy to accentuate the positives,…

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