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Ahead of Inman Connect New York, Howard Hanna Real Estate Services CEO Hoby Hanna mused on the Compass-Anywhere merger, consolidation and why he's resolute in his fight against Clear Cooperation.

Stoneweg Europe Stapled Trust Sets Date for FY2025 Results and Investor Briefing  TipRanks

Institutional Investors Are Snapping Up Homes Across the U.S.—They're Taking the Biggest Share in These 5 Metros  Realtor.com

Diversity isn't a flaw in the American experiment, Darryl Davis writes. It's the founding blueprint, and real estate professionals have a role to play as doorkeepers of the American dream.

News | Derwent London announces two senior promotions  CoStar

London Developers Are Snapping Up Empty Air Above Rooftops  Bloomberg.com

Khamenei's son built secret overseas property empire - Bloomberg  ایران اینترنشنال

OPINION: Don’t write off super-prime London yet!  Property Investor Today

Estate Planning Strategies for Transferring California Real Estate  USA Today

Clamor is growing in Europe to boycott Trump’s World Cup  The Boston Globe

As Troy Palmquist prepares to attend ICNY next week, he shares the can’t-miss speakers, sessions and extra events he’s most excited about.

Quiet beginnings can produce loud destinies, Kuba Jewgieniew, founder and CEO of Realty ONE Group, writes in this story of his professional journey.

How the Son of Iran’s Supreme Leader Built a Global Property Empire  Bloomberg.com

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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One economist said Wednesday that "homebuyers remain active at the start of 2026." And another expert noted that "mortgage rates are nearly a full percentage point lower than they were a year ago."

Baltimore County Council won’t landmark Ruxton house, saving owner a $160,000 window tab  thebanner.com