More than a quarter of real estate professionals falsely believe interactions between agents and appraisers are illegal. Find out what you actually can do to work more collaboratively.

Reframing your nerves before a presentation as feeling ready and remembering that the audience is on your side can reduce anxiety, write speaker coaches Nicole Lowenbraun and Josh Storie. They offer five habits to develop to become a confident speaker, including having a pre-talk ritual, breathing or meditating beforehand and pausing when your nerves show up during your talk.

Professional home stager Patti Stern shares her personal experience neutralizing, depersonalizing and sprucing up her property to get it ready for showings. You can follow her staging principles for your own listing.

Suburban markets remain hot as people look for affordable and comfortable options with the flexibility of remote work. Suburbs such as The Woodlands planned community north of Houston, Phoenix's high-end suburb Paradise Valley, Ariz., and tech hub Cambridge, Mass., are attracting residents.

After soaring mortgage rates and inflation hit cities across the country, some markets are seeing prices drop from sky-high levels. The markets cooling the fastest are Denver, Las Vegas, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose and Seattle, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index.

Electronic signature technologies allow real estate agents to easily track signatures, reduce expenses, enhance security and increase convenience in the home-buying process. Popular electronic signature software for real estate includes DocuSign Agreement Cloud for Real Estate, eSignly, signNow and Foxit eSign.

It's 5 o'clock somewhere—and another agent is just now eating their first proper meal of the day. Don't fall into these nutrition traps when you're trying to push yourself to work longer hours.

Boston has teamed up with a nonprofit to buy a $47 million portfolio of rental properties in the city to provide affordable housing and combat displacement. The properties will be owned and managed by a community trust that splits control between nonprofits, funders and tenants.

A mixed-use housing development in Belmont, Calif., opens this month with 66 affordable housing units, 3,750 square feet of commercial space and amenities including a day care area, playground and green spaces. The property was acquired in 2018 through a partnership between MidPen Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing provider, and the Sares Regis real estate group, and was supported by the city's plan to revitalize the downtown area.

Minnesota's new Climate Action Framework aims to reduce emissions from existing buildings by 50% in 13 years, relying on home weatherization programs and uptake of electric appliances in new and existing homes. While federal funding is available to assist with some programs, some homeowners and homebuilder groups worry that the provisions are too costly when inflation is already raising the cost of homeownership.