Bachman Realty Group joins The Real Brokerage

The Real Brokerage has added Bachman Realty Group — a 65-agent team serving the Dallas–Fort Worth and Houston metro areas. Led by Tiffany and Greg Bachman, the team closed 650 transactions in 2025 totaling $245 million in sales volume, according to the company. The group joins Real from Fathom Realt

Leading the digital shift: DocMagic’s Leah Sommerville on scaling sales and paperless innovation

For more than a decade, the HousingWire Rising Stars award has recognized professionals ages 40 and under who are driving measurable impact across housing. Since being named a 2025 Rising Star, Leah Sommerville has expanded both her leadership scope and her industry influence — transitioning into a

REMAX promotes Chris Lim to president, adds new global sales leaders

REMAX has made some changes to its leadership team. On Wednesday, the company announced the promotion of Chris Lim to president of REMAX.  He will continue to serve as the firm’s chief growth officer. Prior to this promotion, Lim had served as REMAX’s executive vice president and chief growth office

Rate adds seven former Movement Mortgage loan officers

Rate announced Thursday that it added seven loan officers from Movement Mortgage in December 2025, a move the Chicago-headquartered Rate characterized as a “significant wave of competitive talent acquisition momentum to close out the year.” The loan officers who joined Rate are Gabriel Carter of San

The new math of land deals in Texas growth corridors

Two people can look at the same parcel of land and come away with wildly different ideas and “facts” that determine how to value it. While there are more than three categories of landowner, most can be characterized in broad terms as developers, speculators or small parcel farmers/passive heirs.  Ea

Delta Media powers unified digital platform for Keyes and Illustrated Properties

Real estate brokerage firm The Keyes Company and Illustrated Properties is teaming up with Delta Media Group to launch a unified, AI-ready digital platform for its agents and their clients in South Florida.  Developed in partnership with Delta Media Group and built on DeltaNET7, Delta’s enterprise r

Union Home Mortgage brings on M&A veteran Renee Hildebrand

Union Home Mortgage (UHM) indicated a strong appetite for mergers and acquisitions by hiring Renee Hildebrand from Guild Mortgage to seek new opportunities, the company announced Tuesday. ​​The move comes a few years after the Strongsville, Ohio–based UHM, led by CEO Bill Cosgrove, acquired Amerifir

Rayse, OneKey MLS partner on agent value tools in New York

Rayse has partnered with OneKey Multiple Listing Service (MLS) to offer its agent value and transparency platform as an enhanced member benefit to more than 43,000 Realtors serving Long Island, Manhattan, the Hudson Valley and the broader New York metropolitan area. OneKey MLS is the largest Realtor

Property tax burdens vary widely as states debate senior relief

Property taxes can feel like a minor nuisance in some states and a crushing expense in others — a reality detailed in a new WalletHub analysis. The average U.S. household pays $3,119 per year in property taxes, according to U.S. Census Bureau data cited in the report. Even renters are affected. Roug

United’s Dan Duffy on the ‘perfect storm’: Why positioning, not productivity, will define the next brokerage cycle

For Dan Duffy, CEO of United Real Estate Group, the current market is not defined by disruption alone. It is defined by positioning — years of deliberate preparation colliding with a period of industry upheaval. “I have never been this excited about the next phase [of our company],” he said. “There’

Exclusive: UMortgage rolls out flat-fee broker compensation model

UMortgage is rolling out a flat-fee broker model that waives certain charges for originators who close more than 50 loans per year, part of a broader push to more than quadruple its sales force to 1,000 loan officers by December. Under the structure, LOs earn 275 basis points per loan but pay a $995

PHH Mortgage bolsters AI-driven subservicing technology

PHH Mortgage Corp., a subsidiary of Onity Group and the parent of Liberty Reverse Mortgage, on Monday announced updates to its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant for subservicing clients. PHH said the updates build on the tool’s original capabilities and “reflect PHH’s commitment to cont

Mutual of Omaha to sponsor reverse mortgage broker certification program

The National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB) announced Tuesday that leading reverse lender Mutual of Omaha Mortgage is partnering with the trade group as the exclusive sponsor for a reverse mortgage specialist certification program. According to a press release from the companies, the sponsor

Fathom Realty appoints Stephanie Verderose as VP of growth

Fathom Realty, a subsidiary of Fathom Holdings, has appointed Stephanie Verderose as vice president of growth, a newly created role focused on agent production, attraction, retention and community development. Reporting directly to Lori Muller — who was appointed president of Fathom Realty last week

Massachusetts studies single-stair low-rise buildings to add supply

America’s quilt work of states whose governors and lawmakers are bucking for housing policy change to break through supply constraints at the root of the nation’s affordability crisis now counts Massachusetts among them. With a focus on prohibitively constrictive building codes and zoning ordinances

Exclusive: Mike Fawaz announces departure from Rocket Pro

Mike Fawaz said Monday that he’s departing Rocket Pro after roughly 15 years with the company and plans to announce his next steps in March. “After nearly 15 years, I have made the thoughtful decision to step away from Rocket,” Fawaz said in a statement given to HousingWire. “After significant refle

Home equity props up retirees as savings fall short

More than one-third of working-age Americans lack access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan, and those who do have median balances of just $40,000, according to a new study from the National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS). The analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data from December 2022 pai

Fed vice chair pushes Basel regulatory shift to spur bank mortgage lending

Michelle Bowman, the Federal Reserve‘s vice chair for supervision, used a major industry forum to argue that Basel capital rules have helped to drive mortgage lending and servicing away from banks — and that it’s time to reconsider that approach. Addressing the American Bankers Association (ABA)’s 2

PropLogix launches FinCEN reporting service for title agents

PropLogix has launched a reporting service through the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), offering help for title agents to comply with new federal rules. The Department of the Treasury’s Residential Real Estate Reporting Rule mandates reporting on certain residential property purchases

High-producing St. Louis agent returns to Coldwell Banker

Real estate agent Kristin Sprague has rejoined Coldwell Banker Realty-Gundaker — returning to the brokerage where she began her career in 1995. Sprague has worked in the St. Louis metro area for more than 25 years. According to the most recent RealTrends Verified rankings, she remains among the most