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 […]

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

Mortgage insurers will be required to keep a larger safety net for mortgages originated using VantageScore 4.0 than for comparable loans using Classic FICO, according to new guidance from the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). In late July, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac published a new grid for their Private Mortgage Insurer Eligibility Requirements (PMIERs) that, for