Blackstone held a fire sale on an Aventura senior living facility, selling the site for a $36.5 million discount. Aventura-based BH Group, led by Isaac and Liat Toledano, and Fort Lauderdale-based Gold Standard of Care bought Sterling Aventura at 2777 Northeast 183rd Street in Aventura for $12 milli

Social media can be a very powerful tool, but simply chasing likes or trying to go “viral” won’t do anything to help a real estate professional’s career, panelists warned during a discussion on the business of digital marketing during The Real Deal Miami Forum on Thursday. Michael Ruiz, president an

Title and real estate services company Stewart Information Services Corp., owned by SISCO Holdings, has entered into an agreement to acquire the mortgage services of property preservation provider Mortgage Contracting Services (MCS) for $330 million. The transaction, announced Friday, expands Stewar

The typical age of a first-time homebuyer has reached a record. High prices, stubborn borrowing costs, and limited inventory have steadily pushed the milestone up from age 28 in 1991 to 36 in 2022, 38 in 2024, and 40 today. It’s a troubling sign, underscoring just how hard it’s become to break into

Opendoor’s recently appointed CEO Kaz Nejatian used the firm’s third-quarter earnings call with investors and analysts to introduce himself and reintroduce the company he has been tasked with turning around.  “I’m a computer nerd turned lawyer, turned founder, but I think of myself primarily as a pr

There's a Texas size boom happening just outside the capital of the Lone Star State. A rural area full of farms, 40 minutes from Austin, is set to see mega-growth as the site of a new film studio, an Elon Musk technology hub, and a new luxury housing community. Bastrop, TX—population only about 13,0

Developer Edgardo Defortuna and brokerage head Craig Studnicky said the foreign buyers they work with have not been deterred by the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration.  “They already have their visa, their status or they already own property here, and they’re trying to [purchase] someth

Kentucky’s housing market continues to deliver on affordability and steady growth. The state earned a C+ on the Realtor.com® State-by-State Housing Report Card, part of the Let America Build campaign that evaluates how states balance housing costs and new construction. While doing well, this isn't t

Without key government data during this record-breaking shutdown, the signals we do have on the economy are mixed and housing is caught in the middle. The federal government shutdown is now the longest one on record, surpassing the 2018–19 shutdown that lasted 35 days. While lenders have workarounds

Two Maryland-based retail mortgage lenders struck an M&A deal this week as NFM Lending has agreed to acquire Homespire Mortgage, the companies confirmed on Friday. The financial terms were not disclosed. With the acquisition, Linthicum-based NFM will expand its presence along the East Coast, while H

The Real Brokerage and its former chief financial officer Michelle Ressler have reached a settlement agreement in the lawsuit Ressler filed in early June 2025.  Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the lawsuit claims that Real orchestrated Ressler’s termination und

Multifamily developers Bruce Menin, Erik Rutter and Joe Lubeck say South Florida needs more housing, but skittish equity investment is among the many barriers to entry.  The trio, who spoke during The Real Deal Miami Real Estate Forum 2025, pushed back on the notion the tri-county region is struggli

Picture this: a Realtor® walks into a new-home sales office, client in tow, ready to collaborate. The builder’s rep glances up from the desk, wary smile in place. Both sides want the same thing — a sold home — but the air crackles with tension. That moment, repeated across the country, defines one o

Georgia continues to be one of the South’s housing success stories. The state earned a B on Realtor.com® State-by-State Housing Report Card, part of the Let America Build campaign that evaluates how well states balance affordability with new home construction. While doing well, this isn't the case i

In the spring of last year, Patrick Carroll posted a video on his Instagram account that showed him on his boat clutching a shotgun, sporting a red “Make America Great Again” hat and a white towel draped over his shoulders. Carroll fired off a couple of rounds that he later claimed were blanks after

Maine’s picturesque coastal towns and small cities have long drawn new residents—but that popularity has come with a cost. The state earned a C on the Realtor.com® State-by-State Housing Report Card, part of the Let America Build campaign that evaluates how states balance affordability and new const

Ellington Financial reported strong financial performance from its reverse mortgage subsidiary, Longbridge Financial, during its third-quarter earnings call on Thursday. Longbridge posted net income of $8.6 million from July through September — down from the $10.7 million profit it achieved in the s

Hollywood superstar Sydney Sweeney has become a red carpet mainstay in recent years—but she has refused to stray too far from her roots in rural Idaho, where she is the proud owner of a stunning lake house where she and her family have been causing chaos for years. Sweeney, 28, whose latest on-scree

Florida’s housing market remains one of the most active in the nation, balancing rapid population growth with a steady stream of new construction. The state earned a C+ on the Realtor.com® State-by-State Housing Report Card, part of the Let America Build campaign tracking how well states manage affo

Opendoor is teaming up with Roam, a platform that enables homebuyers to purchase homes with assumable low-rate mortgages, according to an announcement on Friday.  Through this partnership, Roam’s assumable mortgage tools and transaction support will be available to homebuyers shopping for homes on O