A battle has brewed over residential lot sizes in Texas after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law last year reducing them in the state’s biggest cities. Since the law didn’t apply statewide, Montgomery County, which abuts Houston, is trying again to increase its lot sizes after doing so last March. County planners say the increase this time is needed to correct a clerical error in the size approved in...
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Visibility used to win. Now it’s just noise. For the past 20 years, real estate agents have been told the same thing: build your personal brand. Post consistently. Shoot video. Be everywhere. The belief was simple — if people saw you often enough, they would eventually do business with you. And for a while, that worked. But the environment that made that strategy effective has changed, and...
Recruiting Insight has released a new strategic guide, “Real Estate Personas and Avatars,” designed to help brokerage leaders diagnose agent motivations and tailor recruiting pitches to specific career stages, the company announced Monday. The framework, built from findings in the firm’s 2026 Agent Migration Report, organizes real estate agents into 11 core personas and introduces a quantitative...
This Trending Now story features the most-saved bedroom photos uploaded to Houzz between Dec. 15, 2025, and March 15, 2026.A cozy, calming bedroom designed for relaxation is a goal many homeowners share, and these inspiring spaces offer plenty of ideas for achieving it....
Image Gardner says REITs can now extract insights from leases and other unstructured data sources that were previously difficult to...
Image Mike McTiernan of Hogan Lovells discusses evolving SEC engagement, disclosure burdens, and opportunities to improve capital...
Image First quarter REIT performance and upcoming trends to help benchmark and analyze exposure within the sector were the focus of the April 7 FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Indexes in Review & What’s Next...
Artificial intelligence is expected to significantly reshape the global real estate industry, a sector often valued in the hundreds of trillions of dollars when including residential, commercial, and land markets worldwide. While real estate has historically lagged other industries in adopting new technologies, advances in AI are accelerating automation, compressing timelines, and changing how value is...
California lawmakers have been at the forefront of zoning reforms to increase housing supply and affordability. New legislation filed Tuesday would put the state on the path to joining single-stair reform that other states and cities have already adopted. Assemblymember Alex Lee’s newly filed bill proposes increasing housing construction by reforming California’s building code to allow mid-rise...
True Footage has raised a $40 million Series C round led by Cox Enterprises’ Socium Ventures that will fund expansion of its staff appraiser model and its data and analytics platform for lenders and consumers. True Footage launched in 2021 with a thesis that appraisal quality and turn times could be improved by combining W-2 staff appraisers with standardized data collection and software rather than...
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