Above, Fed Chair Jerome Powell The Federal Reserve has announced its interest rates will remain unchanged during its Jan. 28 meeting. This follows three straight rate cuts from the prior three Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings of 2025. The FOMC announced at its first meeting of 2026 that it has kept interest rates at…

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The LGBTQ+ Real Estate Alliance has filed a First Amended Complaint against former CEO Ryan A. Weyandt in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, seeking substantial damages across eight counts, and claiming he misappropriated the organization’s valuable 10,000-member customer list and engaged in a pattern of false statements designed to damage its…

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From left, Steve and Hans Wydler  For years as luxury real-estate brokers in the DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia), we’ve watched a stubborn trend erode housing mobility: Long-time homeowners are increasingly choosing not to sell. It is not because they don’t want to, but because the U.S. tax code penalizes them for doing so. Under current…

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PropStream announced the release of two new dialing workflows and an enhanced skip tracing experience to help simplify how real estate professionals move from property research to real conversations within the PropStream platform. The update enhances how skip tracing—provided by third parties—is accessed across the platform while introducing flexible dialing workflows that support both one-to-one…

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Bright MLS has announced that industry veteran Rajeev Sajja has been named the company’s first Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, a new role created to accelerate the MLS’s transformation as an AI-native, enterprise-scale technology and data platform. Bright said this appointment reflects its belief that AI will redefine how listing data is managed, insights are delivered,…

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Above, Lacey Conway HomeServices of America has announced that Lacey Conway has been named President of Long & Foster Real Estate, a leading real estate brokerage and a HomeServices of America company serving the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. Conway will partner closely with Patrick Bain, CEO and president of The Long & Foster Companies, to…

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A federal class-action complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Jan. 16 accuses MC James Mortgage Corp, doing business as Liberty Financial, of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) by placing unsolicited prerecorded calls promoting loan products. The suit, brought by Illinois-based David Torres on behalf of…

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SkySlope has announced a major collaboration with OneKey® MLS to roll out an integration of SkySlope Forms directly into the MLS’s Matrix platform. SkySlope stated that Forms streamlines the form-filling process with intelligent automation and seamless MLS syncing, giving agents more control and speed in managing transactions. With single Sign-On (SSO) and data integration, members…

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As the corporate infighting continues between CoStar Group and billionaire investor Daniel Loeb’s hedge fund Third Point, with Third Point on Jan. 27 announcing it would seek to replace a majority of CoStar’s eight-person board, CoStar responded with a lengthy statement released on Jan. 28 highlighting new planned initiatives. “The CoStar Group Board of Directors…

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Above: “Hoby” Hanna IV (left) and Art Herling (right) Howard Hanna Real Estate Services has entered the Philadelphia market through a partnership with longtime team leader Art Herling. According to the company, the move strengthens the company’s presence in Pennsylvania and extends its agent-first model into one of the region’s biggest real estate markets. “This…

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