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| Your Social Media Profile Is the First Place Clients Look—Make Sure It’s Working for You | ||
| 3/17/2026 2:35 PM | ||
| Editor’s Note: Social Skills is a bi-monthly feature in RISMedia’s Daily News focused on social media and digital marketing tips, trends and solutions for agents and brokers. When potential clients hear your name, the first thing they often do is look you up online. More often than not, the first result they click is not… The post <...Read More | ||
| Michael Saunders & Company Wins Top Honor at Global Real Estate Conference | ||
| 3/17/2026 12:51 PM | ||
| Above, from left, Kate Reisinger, Michael Saunders and Paul Boomsma Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE) announced Sarasota, Florida-based Michael Saunders & Company has been awarded its Diamond Award, presented recently at LeadingRE’s awards gala at Wynn Las Vegas, concluding LeadingRE LIMITLESS, a series of sp...Read More | ||
| Home Sales Power ‘Resilient’ 2026, but Pendings Indicate Spring Market May Be ‘Delayed’ | ||
| 3/17/2026 12:24 PM | ||
| Pending home sales saw a slight uptick in February, continuing an optimistic trend ahead of a long-awaited spring boom, according to the latest data from the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). However, this spring boom may now be delayed due to geopolitical tensions, economists warn. NAR’s Pending Home Sales report found that sales gr...Read More | ||
| COURT REPORT: Dismissal Sought in eXp Sexual Misconduct Case; Howard Hanna Commission Suit Moves Forward | ||
| 3/17/2026 12:20 PM | ||
| Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Updates in eXp sexual assault case eXp World Holdings argued in a March 13 motion that it is essentially the wrong defendant. The company says it is a separate corporate entity from eXp…...Read More | ||
| PropStream Brings Back 3-Day Webinar Series ‘Connect to Close: Your 2026 Reset’ | ||
| 3/17/2026 10:59 AM | ||
| PropStream announced the return of its 3-day webinar series Connect to Close: Your 2026 Reset. This live webinar series is designed to help agents, investors and wholesalers build disciplined outbound systems that turn PropStream data into consistent conversations and conversations into contracts. A release noted that each day of the webin...Read More | ||
| Zillow Jumps Into Premarketing With Exclusive Listing Partnerships | ||
| 3/17/2026 8:01 AM | ||
| It was April of 2025 that portal behemoth Zillow announced its “listing access standards,” taking a hard stance against so-called “selective access” to listings. As some brokerages—most notably Compass—pushed for “private exclusive” marketing plans, Zillow argued that properties for sale should be listed everywhere. Just under a year later, the ...Read More | ||
| Guiding Agents Through Change and Opportunity | ||
| 3/16/2026 3:07 PM | ||
| Above, Angela Rastellini Angela Rastellini Broker of Record – Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island; Vice President of Transactions Management Lamacchia Realty Waltham, Massachusetts https://www.lamacchiarealty.com Region served: New England and South Florida Years in real estate: 17 Number of offices: 24 Number of agents: 750 Favo...Read More | ||
| Maximizing MLS Strategic Partnerships | ||
| 3/16/2026 2:40 PM | ||
| For much of my career in real estate, I’ve been told—sometimes directly, sometimes subtly—that there are limits to what an MLS can be. Limits to how flexible it can be. Limits to how innovative it should be. Limits to how deeply it can integrate into a broker’s or agent’s broader business strategy. Those assumptions are…
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| The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act: What Is in the Landmark Bill Passed by the Senate? | ||
| 3/16/2026 1:52 PM | ||
| A large housing bill, currently dubbed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, is moving through Congress, but the House and Senate versions are not quite the same package. The bill that passed the House was initially dubbed the Housing for the 21st Century Act, a competing version of the Senate’s ROAD to Housing Act.… The post Read More | ||
| As Lawmakers Mull Ban, Report Finds Institutional Investors Are ‘Small Segment’ of Buyers | ||
| 3/16/2026 1:47 PM | ||
| The presence of institutional investors in the single-family housing market has been a lightning rod for controversy. In January 2026, President Trump issued an executive order calling for Congress to take action to limit these investors, and the comprehensive 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (passed by the Senate) includes provisions limiting t...Read More | ||