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| Closing the Gap Between What Consumers Expect and What They Experience: A Q&A With Matt Hendricks | ||
| 8/27/2026 3:23 PM | ||
| You’ve spent your career at the intersection of real estate and technology. Tell us about your role at Zillow and what you’re most focused on right now. My role at Zillow is about making sure the industry serves consumers. I help lead our industry relations and partner education efforts, and a big part of that… The post ...Read More | ||
| NAR Report Finds Nearly Two-Thirds of Realtors® Volunteer Monthly | ||
| 8/27/2026 2:34 PM | ||
| The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) released the 2026 Community Aid and Real Estate (CARE) report, highlighting the monetary and volunteer contributions of NAR members, broker/owners, association and MLS staff. The report found that 64% of Realtors® volunteer in their communities every month, and 84% made charitable donations o...Read More | ||
| Smart Kitchen Gadgets Worth Buying…and Ones to Avoid | ||
| 8/27/2026 1:24 PM | ||
| In last week’s Sunday Showcase, we offered The One-Week Kitchen Test to Take Before Renovating. A week earlier we spotlighted How Owners Can Make Kitchens Look Expensive Without Renovating. Here we present the third kitchen segment of the trilogy . Recent kitchen-based research from Virlo, a short-form video trend intelligence platform, featured...Read More | ||
| Mortgage Rates See Little Change; Inflation Sidelining Would-Be Buyers | ||
| 8/27/2026 12:59 PM | ||
| Buyers who are waiting for rates to come down before making their home purchase will likely have to wait until next year for that to happen, according to economists commenting on this week’s mortgage data. Mortgage rates changed little from last week, with the latest Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey® showing the 30-year fixe...Read More | ||
| AI Pulse: Leading LLMs Bomb Mortgage Test; Google Rolls Back AI Satellite Images | ||
| 8/27/2026 11:40 AM | ||
| Editor’s note: AI Pulse is RISMedia’s ongoing roundup of AI happenings, providing hype-free trends and real-world use cases to help navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini fail as originators, show “extreme” bias As the mortgage industry appears just as eager as the real estate agent and broker community to boost t...Read More | ||
| REMAX Mourns Loss of Co-Founder Gail Liniger | ||
| 8/27/2026 11:12 AM | ||
| REMAX, part of the Real REMAX Group family of brands, announced on Aug. 27 with deep sorrow the passing of REMAX co-founder Gail Liniger. She was 81. A business visionary and luminary whose leadership built one of real estate’s most recognized and respected brands, REMAX called Liniger “a force of nature whose courage, brilliance and… ...Read More | ||
| Judge Blocks HUD From Upending Fair Housing Program | ||
| 8/27/2026 7:42 AM | ||
| On Wednesday, Aug. 26, U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in the federal district of Massachusetts ruled that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) failed to justify a significant restructuring of a landmark fair housing program, after HUD said it would not disburse monies to hundreds of nonprofits that are charged with combatting h...Read More | ||
| Inflation Ticks Back Up, Reaches Nearly Double Fed’s 2% Goal | ||
| 8/26/2026 1:40 PM | ||
| Inflation slowly ticked back up according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) in its latest report, coinciding with several economic challenges faced throughout July. The Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index rose 0.2% month-over-month in July, a minor increase after June’s index fell 0.1%, according to the report. On a ...Read More | ||
| Subtle Scent and Sight Signals That Can Swiftly Stymie Sales | ||
| 8/26/2026 1:23 PM | ||
| Accompanying buyers to tour homes can be a more slippery endeavor than most agents realize. Clients will always share the big things they like about a home, and often ones they don’t like. But many may not provide opinions about “minor” turnoffs, especially if they feel they could be insulting to the owners. So it’s… The post Read More | ||
| AI-Lender Better Launches Crypto Down Payment Loan | ||
| 8/26/2026 12:51 PM | ||
| For the lucky (or prescient) people who stacked some Bitcoin back when the digital currency sold for a few dollars instead of tens of thousands, there aren’t a lot of direct benefits if you don’t cash out. Crypto doesn’t pay dividends, and not a lot of banks are excited to see your bitcoin as collateral… The post Read More | ||