HousingWireHousingWire The Real Brokerage’s explosive growth continues. The company has added the Grant Johnson Group, based in the Minneapolis area, bringing 55 agents to Real and pushing the brokerage’s total agent count past 22,000. “It’s fitting that a fast-growing team, focused on building a strong culture, has helped us surpass…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Ongoing supply and affordability challenges in the housing market have frustrated many homeowners who have looked to trade up or relocate for various reasons. In response, some consumers have turned to renovation projects to meet their needs. According to survey data released this week by St. Louis-based Clever Real…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWireThe National Association of Realtors has taken its fight with the Department of Justice to the Supreme Court. As it previously indicated it would, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) filed a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court on Thursday. The trade group is asking the nation’s highest court…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Social Security benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments will rise by 2.5% in 2025, the lowest such increase since 2021. This reflects cooling levels of inflation after a period of historic increases, which pushed the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to its own heights during and after the COVID-19 pandemic….
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWireAgents and LOs are grappling with heavily damaged housing markets in the Southeast. Housing markets in the Southeast are reeling from a one-two punch of devastating hurricanes that are believed to have caused at least $100 billion in damage. The housing markets in Tampa, Florida, and Asheville, North Carolina, have…
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