Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Small businesses shun retirement plans over cost, complexity fears

Only about half of U.S. private-sector workers participate in an employer-sponsored retirement plan at any given time — a gap driven almost entirely by small employers, according to new research from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. While more than 90% of larger employers offer retirement plans, just 49% of firms with fewer […]

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FirstTeam expands in Midwest with new Kansas City office

FirstTeam has expanded its national brokerage footprint into Kansas and Missouri, partnering with broker-owner Scott Eckhoff and Rival Real Estate to open the company’s first Midwest office in Kansas City, the company announced Tuesday. The move marks the next phase of FirstTeam’s national expansion strategy, which began in April 2025 and has since grown to

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Epique Realty CEO Josh Miller offers 3-point fix for agent tech adoption

Josh Miller, CEO and co-founder of Epique Realty, told attendees at Tuesday’s HousingWire AI Summit that the real estate industry’s most expensive technology investments are often the least used. He offered a three-part prescription to solve the problem. Brokerages spend thousands of dollars on tools their agents refuse to adopt, and the solution lies not

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