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Cotality: US home-price growth holds steady despite jump in interest rates

Looking ahead, Cotality expects home prices to rise 5.3% between April 2026 and April 2027. 

Berkshire Hathaway to acquire Taylor Morrison Home Corp. for $8.5B

Berkshire Hathaway is acquiring Taylor Morrison Home Corp. for approximately $8.5 billion.

Cotality: Chicago leads US in home-price growth

Home prices continued to rise across the country in March, but the rate of increase slowed yet again, according to the latest S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Home Price Index. 

The most popular home trends of 2026

Houzz compared first quarter user activity to year-ago levels to determine the emerging home trends for summer 2026. Here’s what they found.

Housing starts top expectations in April

Despite a monthly decline, the rate of new-home construction still came in above consensus estimates. 

Matthew Gardner’s Q1 2026 housing market recap

Economist Matthew Gardner revisits some predictions for 2026 and looks to the future in this Q1 2026 update.

Cotality rolls out listing-management platform Cotality BLX; HomeServices of America, Keller Williams first to adopt

The platform is designed to allow agents to enter listings once without the need to enter them across different MLSs and real estate portals. 

NAR: Existing-home sales flat in April

The median-existing sales price for all housing types rose 0.9% year over year to $417,700, its 34th consecutive increase. 

eXp acquires NextHome

eXp World Holdings has acquired NextHome, which includes more than 500 franchisees across the United States.

REMAX: Chicago home sales jump in March

Nationally, home sales in the 50 metro areas surveyed by REMAX posted their largest monthly gain in three years, increasing 31.6%. 

Case-Shiller: Chicago home-price growth leads the nation

S&P Dow Jones Indices noted that inflation outpaced national home-price appreciation for the ninth month in a row.

HUD gives green light to agents sharing crime, school-quality data to clients after pullback under Biden

The new guidance says agents are not violating the Fair Housing Act by sharing the information. 

Real Brokerage to acquire REMAX, form Real REMAX Group

Real REMAX Group will be headquartered in Miami and trade on the NASDAQ under the ticker REAX. Real CEO Tamir Poleg will serve as chairman and CEO.

Boomers still buying the most US homes as first-time buyers fall to all-time low

Boomers made up 42% of all homebuyers during the period from July 2024 to June 2025, unchanged from the same time a year prior. Millennials lost market share, making up 26% of buyers, down 3% year over year.

NAR agrees to pay $52.25M to resolve nationwide homebuyer claims

The National Association of REALTORS® has agreed to pay $52.25 million to resolve nationwide homebuyer claims tied to buyer-agent commission litigation from the Tuccori et al. v. At World Properties et al class-action lawsuit, the organization announced Friday. 

28 additional brokerages join Zillow Preview, total count nears 60

Zillow said the response in the three weeks since Preview’s launch demonstrates that agents and their clients prefer “broad, public pre-market exposure” over private listing networks.

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