A prominent Dallas-based home-flipping franchisee of HomeVestors of America — known for its “We Buy Ugly Houses” ads — is being accused of operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of tens of millions of dollars.According to lawsuits and ProPublica interviews with alleged victims, Charle

Servant leadership is more than a lazy LinkedIn buzzword cooked up by corporate PR teams. It’s a crucial reason why new school brokerages like The Agency and Real outsold Keller Williams last year. If you want to scale your team or brokerage in 2025, lead by example, or get left behind.Not convinced

To add to the list of dramatic events in 2025, Moody’s downgraded U.S. credit by one notch on Friday — from Aaa to Aa1 — raising concerns about mortgage rates. Moody’s pointed to increasing debt and interest payment ratios notably higher than those of comparable sovereign nations. This downgrade has

One of the lesser known storylines in housing economics is that the improvement in mortgage spreads since 2023 has contributed to a noticeable trend in purchase application data for 2025, which is now showing 15 consecutive weeks of positive year-over-year growth. Mortgage spreads recently turned ne