Tips to successfully navigate disagreements, miscommunications and misunderstandings with clients, cooperating agents and your broker.

Finding ways to be helpful to customers doesn't prevent your sales team from meeting their quotas, sales consultant David Brock writes. However, solving problems that don't really exist for customers who aren't even seeking solutions is a time-waster, so it's important to focus only on the problems that prevent customers from saying yes, Brock asserts.

Business-to-business marketers can use content personas to emotionally connect with buyers at every stage in their journey, writes Gravity Global's Mark Morse. Create a mix of content to address specific issues, such as showing an understanding of emotional journeys, explaining the category, educating via videos and supporting buyers with storytelling.

Buyers are turning to the new-home market to find more housing options. Read more about the outlook for home sales from NAR's latest report.

REALTORS® Traci and Dave Gagnon ventured into the virtual world for their nuptials in 2021, exploring the many possibilities of the metaverse.

Some sellers are deciding to cash in on their equity, despite the current higher mortgage rates. "A lot of people have earned a substantial amount of housing equity," says Jessica Lautz, deputy chief economist for the National Association of REALTORS®. "Even if they have low interest rates on their current loans, they may be willing to make a trade because they're paying all cash for the next property."

This New York retreat showcases minimalist design and modern use of wall panels as a textural element.

NAR Fair Housing Champion Sofia Crisp leverages her industry knowledge and community connections to build bridges to homeownership.

For the first time ever, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Federal Housing Administration, the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Government National Mortgage Association all have women in top leadership. These leaders are prioritizing housing affordability in the U.S. and tackling a market that leaves homeownership out of reach for many Americans.

If Congress does not raise the debt ceiling and prevent a default on U.S. government debt, this would lead to an "economic catastrophe" that will push interest rates higher for even longer, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said. "A default would raise the cost of borrowing into perpetuity. Future investments would become substantially more costly," Yellen said.