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CoStar Focuses on Homes.com Salesforce Growth in 2025, Touts Core Businesses
In a fourth quarter and full year 2024 earnings call February 18, CoStar Group Founder and CEO Andy Florance touted the company’s revenue growth and offered insights into the company’s goals for 2025. A large investment, CoStar Group intends to grow the salesforce from 1,390 in December 2024 to reach 1,890 by the end of…
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Best Places to Invest in Real Estate in 2025 - U.S News & World Report Money
Best Places to Invest in Real Estate in 2025 U.S News & World Report Money
Stop the presses! NAR ceases printing its flagship magazine
As it seeks to slash costs to pay a $418 million lawsuit settlement, the National Association of Realtors announced on Tuesday it would stop printing "Realtor" magazine and move to a digital-only format.
Study: CT residents pay among highest property taxes in U.S. - Westfair Online
Study: CT residents pay among highest property taxes in U.S. Westfair Online
Reffkin knocks NAR, says rules ‘prop up’ inexperienced agents
The Compass CEO said that NAR's rules have held back top agents and brokerages. But Robert Reffkin also believes that as those rules end, big brokerages like his will pull further ahead.
RealReports launches listing lead capture capability
RealReports’ core competency is in producing extensive, data-rich property and community reports for use in a variety of real estate business applications, from listing presentations to investment strategies.
Newsmakers Spotlight: How Julia Lashay Israel Is Shaping a More Inclusive Real Estate Industry
Julia Lashay Israel, head of Inclusion and Belonging at Keller Williams Realty International, was named an Influencer on RISMedia’s 2025 Real Estate Newsmakers list earlier this month. She was recognized for her workshops and leadership courses held throughout 2024, as well as her “Color of Money” podcast, covering ways to increase housing wealth in Black…
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CENTURY 21 Brings on Middleton Group Realty as Latest Affiliate
Century 21 Real Estate LLC. has announced it is continuing to expand its presence in south-central Texas with its latest affiliation of veteran-oriented Middleton Group Realty based in San Antonio. Now doing business as CENTURY 21 Middleton, the five-year-old firm is led by Bobby Middleton, who joined the real estate industry in 2009 after spending…
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US investors in Europe: short or long stay? - Hospitality Investor
US investors in Europe: short or long stay? Hospitality Investor
New Residential Construction Trends Down Almost 10% in January
This year kicked off with a downturn in construction—seasonally adjusted, there were only 1,366,000 privately-owned housing starts in January, 9.8% lower than the number of starts from December 2024. These numbers come courtesy of the latest report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Census Bureau. The January 2025…
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Compass Q4: Revenues and Agent Count Up, Losses Trimmed, CEO Bullish
In a Q4 and full year 2024 earnings call February 18, Compass—the tech-focused real estate services company that trumpets itself as the largest residential real estate brokerage in the U.S. by sales volume—announced strong Q4 results, a lessening of year-over-year losses and impressive agent-count growth. “Despite a year in which resale transactions experienced a 29-year…
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Housing starts decline in January as homebuilder uncertainty rises
Multifamily housing starts fell 9.8 percent, reaching a seasonally adjusted rate of 1,366,000, while single-family housing starts fell 8.4 percent month over month, according to data released Wednesday.
