Succeeding in the current marketing means preparing yourself and your agents for the next one.

Still don't understand the National Flood Insurance Program's new pricing methodology? Get an update from NAR's Insurance Committee chair.

Ford Motor introduced a "concierge spirit" to its marketing, shifting from focusing on the product to prioritizing the buying experience, writes Metaforce's Allen Adamson in this excerpt from his book "Seeing the How: Transforming What People Do, Not Buy, To Gain Market Advantage." Ford's former marketing chief, Suzy Deering, shifted the brand's mindset, explaining, "We see experience as a growing and important part of what makes people act: to buy, to share about their purpose, to repeat that act of buying."

Imposter syndrome, a sense of nagging unworthiness, can undermine performance and advancement and can lead to burnout, writes Jennifer Gendron, global chief commercial officer for Koa Health. It is a common experience, though rarely admitted to, and it can be countered by providing employees a psychologically safe environment where self-doubt is normal and success is celebrated, Gendron writes.

The eco-friendly home is in demand. Here's how to make yours one.

Demand for Puerto Rico's real estate is driving prices to record levels as wealthy buyers look to take advantage of favorable tax policies in a tropical climate. Local real estate agents say the coronavirus pandemic drove many deals at the upper end of the market.

U.K. startup Orbital Witness, which links the worlds of legaltech and real estate, has raised more than $9 million in venture capital funding. The company uses artificial intelligence to help handle the extensive paperwork involved in property transactions.

Across the U.S., mobile home parks are being razed to make room for costlier developments, displacing many working families. "Mobile homes are a much bigger part of our affordable housing stock than people know," said Mark Stapp of Arizona State University.

Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., have called for President Joe Biden to select independent, nonpartisan experts to examine regulatory procedures with regard to recent bank collapses. The bipartisan call comes after the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. released reports on their handling of the banks' failures, with the senators saying that "self-reflection" is "insufficient to ensure stressors to our financial system of this magnitude are not repeated."

President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., are planning to meet today on the debt ceiling after their negotiators convened for more than two hours on Sunday. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reiterated the urgency of the situation, calling early June a "hard deadline" to resolve the impasse.