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Build-to-rent explodes in Atlanta — and agents are taking notice

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No major U.S. metro area has more single-family rental (SFR) homes owned by institutional investors than Atlanta, with current totals sitting at roughly 72,000 houses — nearly doubling No. 2 Phoenix. That concentration represents about 30% of Atlanta’s single-family rental market, a share 10 times the national average, according to a new report from the […]

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New Luxury Presence platform combines AI tools and marketing

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Luxury Presence has introduced a new technology platform designed to consolidate marketing, customer management and advertising tools into a single system for real estate agents. The product — called the Presence Platform — brings together several functions typically handled across multiple vendors, including customer relationship management (CRM), social media marketing, listing advertising and client engagement

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Compass posts strong Q1 following Anywhere acquisition

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Compass, Inc. reported strong first-quarter 2026 financial results Tuesday — reflecting its first full quarter as a combined company following its acquisition of Anywhere in January. Year-over-year comparisons reflect combined results of Compass and Anywhere for 2025, providing a like-for-like comparison with the newly merged company. The firm posted $2.7 billion in revenue for the

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New Jersey real estate teams merge and join eXp Realty

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Sharif Hatab moved his Team Sharif Sells operation to eXp Realty from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices FOX & ROACH, Realtors and merged with Peter Boutros’ Stunning NJ Homes to launch the Unify Real Estate Team in New Jersey, the company announced on Tuesday. eXp Realty, the cloud-based brokerage subsidiary of eXp World Holdings, said the move

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Zillow, Realtor.com team up to broaden pre-market home access

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Zillow and Realtor.com are joining forces to display Zillow’s pre-market Preview listings on both portals, extending early access to for-sale homes to buyers across the two largest U.S. real estate search sites, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Beginning this summer, homes entered as Zillow Preview listings will also appear as Realtor.com Preview listings on

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New book gives agents a system to target life events, not random leads

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New Kendall Bonner book gives agents a system to target life events, not random leads The book, titled The Motivated Mover Method: A Repeatable System for Real Estate Agents to Build a Predictable Pipeline of Clients Ready to Move, is now available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle, Bonner announced May 5. Rather than adding

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FirstTeam and Brown Harris Stevens form marketing partnership

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As large national brokerages and franchisors consolidate, two regional independent firms, the West Coast-based FirstTeam Real Estate and the East Coast-based Brown Harris Stevens, are teaming up to show that there is a way for independents to compete more aggressively while maintaining their independence.  On Tuesday, the two companies announced a strategic multi-year marketing partnership,

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One portal’s share of agent discovery traffic dropped for the first time ever. Here’s why.

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A benchmark study tracking 8.2 million real estate conversations in AI search models finds that buyer behavior has changed faster than any channel in real estate marketing history. And portals are losing ground because of it. For the first time since AI search tracking began in 2024, Zillow‘s share of agent-discovery traffic declined year over

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CoStar CEO Andy Florance buys over 70,000 shares

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CoStar Group founder and CEO Andy Florance purchased over 70,000 securities belonging to his firm last Friday.  A Form 4 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday shows that Florance purchased non-derivative securities from the open market.  According to the filing, Florance acquired a total of 71,430 securities via two transactions, one which

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Veterans cite upfront costs as top VA loan barrier in 2026

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Nearly all veterans who have used a VA home loan, 98%, say they’re satisfied with the experience. Almost half say they couldn’t have purchased a home without it. And more than two-thirds of veterans and service members who don’t yet own a home call homeownership a major life milestone. The motivation is there. The benefit

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