You can't misrepresent a property, but there are ethical ways to use images generated by artificial intelligence to improve your clients' experiences and better serve their needs.

Nervous in front of the camera? Use this simple storytelling approach to help calm your fears around what to say and how to structure your videos.

Sales toolkits now require strong video skills, but ineffective body language is amplified during video chats or presentations, writes Virtual Sapiens' Rachel Cossar, a former Boston Ballet dancer who has prepared four videos as examples. Facial expressions and eye gaze are particularly important, Cossar writes.

Social media advertisers are confident in their investments and returns and are poised to increase allocations next year while general marketers make cutbacks due to a turbulent world economy, Hootsuite reports. Hootsuite also predicts increased collaborator partnerships, a shift toward content that's customized for each channel's distinct audience, a rise in the use of social media as a search tool, and growth in social commerce.

These real-world properties have made a name for themselves by hosting fictional households. Can you match each residence with the film or TV show that made it a star?

Survey results released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York find reluctance among Americans to move, citing low mortgage rates that cannot be matched in the current environment. Moving intentions have declined in concert with rising mortgage rates.

Mexican architects Gonzalez Muchow Arquitectura selected pigmented concrete to blend their design for the Casa Tejocote residential dwelling into the local landscape and lighting conditions. The decision to place the concrete for the building's construction in more than 30-inch layers ultimately determined its form and scale.

Some of the better contractors are being more selective about the jobs they take because of the construction labor shortage, says insurance executive Tobias Cushing of Zurich North America. Rather than trying to hire extra workers, these firms are only bidding on projects they can handle with existing crews, Cushing said.

Robots and drones are finding their way onto more construction sites this year as major contractors turn to these and other technologies for a variety of reasons aimed at achieving greater efficiency and countering the effects of the pandemic. John Caulfield explores examples and the purposes served, as well as contractors' growing focus on workplace diversity, equity and inclusion.

Real estate pros are in a key position to help undo some of the harm of housing discrimination and lead cultural change in the profession.

Dwindling demand for mortgage bonds by banks and other investors has helped to drive up mortgage rates, with the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate recently surpassing 7%. "Banks stepping back, the Fed stepping back, foreign investors stepping back—that has widened the spread that mortgages trade at versus Treasurys, which directly translates to the borrower's mortgage rate," noted Nick Maciunas of JPMorgan Chase.