Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Joe Ventrone’s April 17 opinion piece comments on decoupling real estate commissions based on a recent Consumer Federation of America/Urban League report, on past research by me as a CFA senior fellow, and on my more recent research as a senior fellow at the Consumer Policy Center, among other consumer sources.  The article suggests that settlement […]

Greg Hague, founder of 72SOLD and a 50-year real estate industry veteran, has been appointed director of home sale strategy at Compass International Holdings (CIH), the company announced on Thursday.  In the new role, Hague will provide voluntary, no-cost strategy training to more than 300,000 agents across CIH’s portfolio of brands. The training is aimed

More investor deals are getting harder to finance cleanly on standard DSCR, not always because the investment is weak, but because current rents do not tell the whole story. That pressure is showing up in the numbers. ATTOM’s March 2026 Single-Family Rental Market Report found that potential rental yields declined in 54.8% of analyzed U.S.