It was after a distressing discovery that REALTORⓇ Jeffrey Decatur, a longtime broker associate with RE/MAX Capital, in Latham, New York, decided less is definitely more when it comes to open house food and drink offerings. “I am no longer a fan of food at open houses,” he asserts. ...read more
Following a brief uptick in new home sizes in 2021, the average size of a new home continues to inch smaller—dropping from 2,479 square feet in 2022 to 2,411 square feet in 2023, the smallest average size in 13 years—to match home buyer preferences for less square footage. According...
ERA Real Estate announced ERA top producer awards for 2023. The awards feature the No. 1 ranked affiliated company, sales associate team, broker team and individual broker and agent at a national level in both number of transactions and total sales volume. The 2023 top producer award winners are ...read more
Century 21 Real Estate LLC has announced the affiliation of female-led Florida-based brokerage, Soflo Home Realty Corp. Located north of downtown Miami in Delray Beach, the six-year-old multilingual firm assists affluent clients in markets from luxury pre-construction and new construction homes. As of January 2024, the firm will be...
Above, Dawn McKenna Dawn McKenna had a taste for luxury before she hit her teens. “I was brought up on Chicago's South Side with very little means,” she said. “But my mother and loved to tour high-end open houses and prowl through exclusive antique shops—and I found early on...
Editor's note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia's weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. The wheels of justice may turn slowly, but the last week of February (into the first week of March) brought updates aplenty to the legal action facing...
Century 21 Real Estate LLC is strengthening its presence in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains with the affiliation of Asheville-based brokerage, Modern Mountain Real Estate LLC. The white glove service firm has assisted several communities along North Carolina's westernmost mountain ranges since 2019, including parts of Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, ...read more
Professionals interested in forming a team will likely take into account that the team, properly developed, will become one of the main assets they have. In 1965, Dr. Bruce Tuckman, who studied group dynamics and educational psychology, published a theory titled, “Tuckman's stages of group development.” The theory listed...
Minority homeownership—specifically the state of Black homeownership—has been an ever-present topic of conversation in the real estate sphere for years. Beyond the current common challenges of homebuying, Black homebuyers are faced with hurdles created from systemic issues within the housing market and other facets of the U.S. While there...
United Real Estate Partners, an affiliate of United Real Estate, announced a merger with New Orleans Northshore agency, Team Geaux Realty. The move expands Metairie-based United Real Estate Partners to Mandeville. Agents will have access to United Real Estate's comprehensive marketing, expanded training opportunities, healthcare plans, lead-generation tools and...