June 2026

RealTrends Verified 2026 shows higher sales volume for teams, agents in 2025

Despite yet another year of sluggish home sales, the nation’s top-performing real estate agents and teams continued to produce strong results in 2025.  Over 50,000 agents and teams earned a spot on the 2026 RealTrends Verified rankings, published on Friday. While this is roughly 5,000 more qualifiers than last year, those ranked in the RealTrends […]

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U.S. Bank, Rate, loanDepot and AnnieMac make leadership moves

Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. named Timothy Rhyne as Michigan underwriting counsel in the central states region, KC West as region manager for its north central states region, John Kulasa as south central states regional manager, Deborah Lake as agency representative for the Miami-Dade, Florida, area, Natalie Koonce as mountain states region manager and Emilio

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Berkshire Taylor Morrison deal puts vertical integration in focus

Berkshire Hathaway’s planned acquisition of Taylor Morrison has opened the door for us to explore a set of uber-themed questions: about homebuilders’ present and future valuations, leadership and scale, and to the question that public homebuilder boards may now be asking: whether to build toward greater scale or join it. A related question may be

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