Buyers are traveling greater distances to find a home. What's driving the change, and how can real estate practitioners pivot to navigate through it?

Akintoye Akindele outlines four ways leaders can prevent a fear of failure from hampering success. Remember that failure is common, can spark personal growth, is simply a detour on your journey and can be overcome by perseverance, writes Akindele, CEO of Platform Capital Group.

Coaching isn't about sucking oxygen out of an employee's realm; rather, it's about "creating space to be filled by the employee," executive coach Ed Batista writes. A successful coaching style involves connecting, reflecting, directing and then asking.

Mortgage fee changes announced by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lead to both legitimate concerns and misunderstandings.

New single-family home sales reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 683,000 units in March, climbing 9.6% to reach a one-year high, according to the Commerce Department. A dip in mortgage rates may have helped spur the activity, with sales climbing especially fast in the Northeast. However, sales were down 3.4% year over year.

Real estate-related employment in Southern California is on the downswing even as other industries continue to hire. Industries seeing declines include real estate services, construction and lending.

Knowing what's available in smart home technology is a value-add for agents selling new and existing homes. Broaden your expertise with this collection of articles.

NAR Fair Housing Champion Abra Barnes is carrying on the work of her grandfathers while widening the circle of homeowners in her Birmingham, Ala., community.

Cara Hansen of Downstreet Housing & Community Development in Vermont points to drivers of the affordable housing shortage, including "decades of inequitable housing policies, intentionally exclusionary regulations and the monetization of housing as a commodity." Hansen calls for updates to zoning laws that will support an increase in home supply.

The Mortgage Bankers Association has filed an amicus brief with a U.S. District Court in Maryland that objects to a move by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Department of Justice to establish a liability standard that would hold lenders responsible for the actions of the appraisers they employ in the event of disputes. Centered on a case in which a Black couple say an appraiser was racially biased in downgrading the assessed value of their home, the MBA says the CFPB and DOJ stance "attempts to impose requirements on lenders beyond the existing federal legal framework for their interactions with third-party appraisers."

Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the credit ratings of 11 U.S. banks and lowered its outlooks for nine others in light of recent headwinds. The rating firm cited struggles to retain deposits and growing anxiety over some banks' exposure to the commercial real estate market.