Author name: Ricky Vasquez

While national brands dominate real estate headlines, an independent brokerage based in Pennsylvania’s chocolate capital has quietly posted one of the industry’s strongest five-year growth runs. Iron Valley Real Estate — now rebranding as IVRE — placed No. 10 nationally for five-year volume growth and No. 3 for five-year transaction side growth on RealTrends Verified’s […]

Tennessee-based MLS Realtracs has replaced its traditional MLS participation agreement with a new Brokerage Services Agreement that explicitly affirms brokers own their listings and the associated data, according to an April 14, 2026 company blog post by president and CEO Stuart White. In the post, White said years of evolving rules, licensing structures and layered

Loan officer mobility is continuing to decline even as the overall pool of active producers rebounds from recent low points. This appears to signal a shift in how originators are weighing risk, compensation and opportunity, according to a recent mortgage market intelligence report from RETR. Loan officer movement has long served as a proxy for