Alex Douglas is a business and real estate writer based in suburban Chicago, bringing together professional newsroom experience, firsthand brokerage knowledge, and a practical interest in property investing. He earned a BS from Arizona State University and went on to report for multiple newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, where he covered business and real estate.
Before focusing on real estate journalism, Alex spent five years as a Realtor in Phoenix, giving him direct insight into buyers, sellers, agents, negotiations, and the day-to-day realities of local housing markets. Today, his reporting draws on both his journalism background and his real estate experience to explain market trends, housing developments, and industry changes with clarity and authority. As a novice multifamily real estate investor, Alex also brings a hands-on perspective to coverage of property ownership, investment strategy, and long-term market opportunities.
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Compass said Sept. 22 it is rebuilding Compass.com around See It First, a feature that gathers homes at every marketing stage from nine affiliated brands and lets sellers test pricing without accruing public days on market.
Redfin’s August Home Price Index, released Sept. 22, showed a 0.25% monthly gain and 3.7% annual growth, with San Francisco up 12% and Dallas down 1.4% over the year.
Fannie Mae awarded 919 deeply delinquent loans with $203.3 million of unpaid balance to Residential Credit Opportunities Trust IX-D. The runner-up bid alone was 100.375% of face value, a reflection of 4.31% note rates and 48% loan-to-value ratios.
Silver Lake, Lac La Belle, Lake Michigan and Nagawicka Lake all figure in the Milwaukee metro area’s five highest-priced reported home sales for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A Severn Forest estate with a private pier and a tram to its dock sold for $5.44 million, the highest reported Baltimore-area home sale for the week ending September 20.
A 25-acre farmstead in the Leipers Fork area of Franklin sold for $4.70 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Nashville metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A gated Los Altos estate on about 1.26 acres sold for $17.50 million, the highest reported San Jose-area home sale for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A house in Corolla’s Ocean Beach neighborhood sold for $5.60 million, the highest reported home sale in the Virginia Beach metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A six-bedroom house on Tribute Way sold for $1.15 million, first among the five highest reported home sales in the Bakersfield, California metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A four-bedroom house with private beach access in Kailua’s Beachside sold for $3.96 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Urban Honolulu metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A Red Hook home on nearly eight acres sold for $1.98 million, the highest price among the five home sales reported in the Poughkeepsie, New York metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A Gulf-front house in Villa Primera on Pensacola Beach sold for $2.75 million, leading five reported Pensacola-area home sales for the week ending September 20, 2026.
The mapping platform’s new tool assembles public records and licensed data for an address, then uses AI to explain what matters and map it. The announcement does not say how the answers are tested.
Newmark said on Sept. 18 that it arranged Ares financing for Related Ross’s purchase of the 124-acre Boca Raton Innovation Campus, the former IBM research site where the first IBM PC was developed.
Glass Lewis joined ISS in telling Better Home & Finance shareholders to revoke consent, while Egan-Jones backed founder Vishal Garg’s campaign to remove a board majority.
The Denver developer behind the Abilene, Texas, AI campus closed an initial $3.9 billion Series F and added Digital Realty’s former chief executive to its board.
A 2013 Colonial Revival home in Greenville sold for $3.95 million, the highest-priced reported home sale in the Philadelphia metro area for the week ending September 13, 2026.
An embassy-style Woodway Park estate sold for $7.35 million, the highest-priced reported home sale in the Seattle metro area for the week ending September 13, 2026.
A Wayzata home sold for $6.40 million, the highest reported sale in the Minneapolis metro area for the week ending September 13, 2026.
A Lohi home sold for $3.80 million to lead the Denver metro area’s five highest-priced reported home sales for the week ending September 13, 2026.
A newly built Home A Rama residence in Zionsville’s Wild Air neighborhood sold for $2.69 million, the top reported home sale in the Indianapolis metro area for the week ending September 13.
Harrison Street and The Michaels Organization will build and operate Presidio Terrace Apartments, a $230 million, 321-unit, 700-bed project on the University of San Diego campus, in what the university calls its first public-private partnership.
A 1994 Block Island home on Corn Neck Road sold for $3.35 million, the No. 1 reported home sale in the Providence, Rhode Island metro area for the week ending September 13, 2026.
A Winsfield Drive SE home in Grand Rapids sold for $5.22 million, the highest-priced home sale reported in the Grand Rapids, Michigan metro area for the week ending September 13, 2026.
A four-bedroom Clarence Center home sold for $1.41 million, the highest-priced reported home sale in the Buffalo, New York metro area for the week ending September 13, 2026.
An 1880 property on Seneca Point Road in Canandaigua sold for $975,000, the highest-priced home sale reported in the Rochester, New York metro area for the week ending September 13, 2026.
A Port Charlotte house with a private beach on Charlotte Harbor sold for $1.56 million, the top reported sale in the Punta Gorda metro area for the week ending August 30.
A custom waterfront estate on Pohlman Point in Severna Park sold for $6.25 million, the highest-priced home sale reported in the Baltimore metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
The Federal Open Market Committee opened a two-day meeting Sept. 15 with markets pricing a rate increase at better than 90% odds. The 10-year Treasury has already closed at 4.97%, its highest of 2026, and the 30-year mortgage rate is at 6.76%.
A newly built home in Nashville’s Seven Hills neighborhood sold for $6.26 million — $260,041 above its final asking price — leading the metro area’s five highest-priced reported home sales for the week ending September 6, 2026.
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