• IRVE: The independent brokerage that grew $2B in five years,Jonathan Delozier

    IRVE: The independent brokerage that grew $2B in five years

    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 a

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  • How the post-war homebuilders built the modern playbook,Scott Finfer

    How the post-war homebuilders built the modern playbook

    If you want to understand the DNA of the modern American homebuilding industry, you don’t start in a boardroom or on Wall Street. You start in the aftermath of World War II. The men (and they were almost entirely men at the time) who came home from that war didn’t just return with discipline and gri

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  • Real estate brokers own the listing data, says Realtracs,HousingWire Automation

    Real estate brokers own the listing data, says Realtracs

    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,

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