July 2025

‘I want one source’: Consolidation is picking up in the MLS space

The housing industry is currently rife with consolidation, but the same wave of mergers and acquisitions has not taken the multiple listing service (MLS) sector by storm.  Over the past two decades, the number of MLSs across the country has greatly decreased. As recently as a decade ago, there were more than 900 MLSs. But […]

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Zillow: US housing shortage hit 4.7 million in 2023

The U.S. faced a shortfall of 4.7 million homes in 2023 — the largest housing deficit on record — according to a new Zillow analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. Persistent inventory shortages continue to drive the national housing affordability crisis, limiting access to homeownership and forcing millions of people to share homes with non-relatives.

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GTCR announces investment in Clear Capital

Private equity firm GTCR announced on Tuesday that it has made a significant investment in national real estate analytics and data solutions company Clear Capital. As part of the investment, GTCR is partnering with Clear Capital co-founder and CEO Duane Andrews. The transaction represents Clear Capital’s first outside investment, with GTCR becoming the company’s majority

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