Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Realtor.com has launched RealAssist AI, a new artificial intelligence (AI)-driven home search experience developed in collaboration with Google, allowing consumers to search for homes using natural language conversations rather than traditional filters and search fields. Currently available in beta to a select group of logged-in users across desktop, mobile web and the Realtor.com app, RealAssist […]

The spring housing market came in with genuine momentum. Mortgage rates had moderated. Affordability was improving at the margins. Pent-up buyer demand was real. And running beneath all of it, quietly reshaping what buyers could actually afford, was the continued rise of homeowners insurance costs. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in March 2026 found

When an industry’s incumbents can’t win on merit, they stop competing and start restricting. The MLS feed cutoffs to Zillow are the latest version of this pattern. Taxi commissions tried to slow Uber in 2014. They didn’t fight on product. They couldn’t. Uber was easier, cheaper and the cars were cleaner. So they pushed regulators