Though real estate professionals tend to focus on serving home buyers and sellers, there may be more business opportunity in the rental market amid tight For Sale inventory.

Real estate pros—especially buyer's agents—need guidance on how to explain their services to clients.

If you can't seem to get things done on time or forget to finish (or start) essential tasks, you have "time blindness," which means you have trouble analyzing how long something will take, say experts. There is support through time-management apps, virtual or physical to-do lists, attention to self-care, and being compassionate with yourself, say experts.

Storage is a coveted amenity for homeowners, and some of the latest design trends are helping to clear the clutter discreetly—and stylishly.

A new study from Clever Real Estate finds that millennial buyers have accepted the high-interest-rate environment, with many willing to pay more to reach their goal of homeownership.

One bright spot in the housing market has been sales of new homes, which increased 4.2% in 2023, according to the Census Bureau. The trend has been beneficial for companies such as Howard Hughes Holdings, which reported that its new home sales doubled in the third quarter compared with the prior year. "Our job is to make sure we have enough houses to meet that buyer demand," said CEO David O'Reilly.

Leaders must take time now to become well-versed in how AI will affect their company, deciding on matters ranging from ethics, which jobs will be reserved for humans, how it will affect culture and what kind of processes and policies will be needed, write BTS executives Andrew Atkins and Peter Mulford. Make all of these decisions in concert with your executive team and employees so everyone can feel involved in the final outcome, they write.

Plaintiffs in some of the cooperative compensation lawsuits filed a motion last month seeking to centralize and transfer various cases to the Western District of Missouri. NAR filed a response to that motion this week, arguing that all relevant cases should be centralized in the Northern District of Illinois to address the industry-wide issues they present. Visit competition.realtor for litigation updates.

Unsustainable increases in lot rental fees at this Washington mobile home park are leaving residents with few options, but two companies have offered to build a new park and sell the land to residents at a more affordable rate as a way to enable housing security.

Several of the largest U.S. banks have reported that credit card spending, which has been rising since 2020, reached a peak with a combined total of around $2.25 trillion in 2023. Unpaid balances have also risen past the high that was reached in 2019, while delinquencies rose sharply for all four of the leading banks last year.