James Clark is a staff reporter for RealtyWire, where he covers residential real estate, home sales, brokerage trends, seller strategy, marketing, home preparation, new construction, renovations, and the practical issues that affect buyers, sellers, agents, brokers, and property owners.
Before joining RealtyWire, James spent 15 years as a residential real estate agent in the Denver, Colorado metro area. During his real estate career, he worked with three different brokerage firms and focused heavily on representing home sellers, giving him firsthand experience with pricing strategy, listing preparation, negotiations, marketing, buyer behavior, and the challenges sellers face in changing market conditions.
James brings a practical, agent-level understanding of the real estate business to his reporting. His background gives him insight into real estate regulation, mortgage issues, sales trends, listing strategy, home staging, new construction, renovations, interior design, and the updates that can help improve a property's marketability and resale value.
His reporting focuses on making real estate news, trends, and market analysis useful for readers who want to better understand how the industry works at the ground level.
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California’s FAIR Plan, the state-created insurer of last resort for homeowners who cannot find coverage in the private market, will raise rates by an average of 29.1% starting Oct. 15, according to reporting confirmed Aug. 11. The increase will hit the roughly 700,000 California households now covered by the plan, whose ranks have grown sharply … Read more
The five highest-priced home sales reported in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026 totaled $13.38 million, led by a $3,350,000 closing in Atlanta’s Powers Ferry Estates.
Five home sales in the Washington, D.C. metro area combined for $27.29 million in the week ending August 9, 2026, led by the $8,750,000 sale of the historic Under Oak estate in Northwest Washington.
Five home sales in the Riverside, California metro area combined for $32.10 million in the week ending August 9, 2026, led by a $14.5 million newly built estate at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert.
The five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Detroit, Michigan metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026 combined for $11.38 million, led by the $2,850,000 sale of a waterfront estate in Orchard Lake.
Five home sales in the Orlando, Florida metro area combined for $14.00 million in the week ending August 9, 2026, led by a $3.9 million lakefront sale in Montverde’s Bella Collina.
The five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Tampa, Florida metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026, totaled $18.59 million, led by a $4,900,000 closing on Davis Islands.
The five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Pittsburgh metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026, led by a $2,600,000 renovated 1902 residence in Sewickley Village.
Proptech firm Altrio launched Altrio Pro, an AI tool that automatically scores and organizes commercial real estate deals from broker emails, and rebranded its Origin platform as Altrio Enterprise.
Austin’s luxury home price threshold fell 9.6% year over year in July, more than three times the national pace and the steepest decline of any metro Realtor.com tracks, as the market normalizes after its pandemic-era boom.
New York Attorney General Letitia James secured a $700,000-plus settlement from SME Capital Ventures over its handling of a 441 West 37th Street condo building in Hudson Yards, forcing the firm to turn the board over to residents.
Infrastructure investor Stonepeak acquired an 860,100-square-foot rail-served logistics facility in Fort Worth’s Alliance submarket, extending a multiyear buying spree that now totals nearly 2.7 million square feet in the corridor since 2024.
U.S. existing-home sales dropped 1.7% in July to a 4.06 million annual rate as mortgage rates hit a 2026 high, even as the median price set a record for the 37th straight month, NAR reported.
A Staten Island judge temporarily blocked New York City’s enforcement of its new pied-a-terre tax on luxury second homes, but the city’s automatic appeal kept the rollout in force pending an Aug. 31 hearing, as brokers report owners shifting high-value units into the rental market.
The mall and outlet REIT lifted its full-year 2026 Real Estate FFO outlook to $13.20-$13.30 per share after occupancy held at 96% and retailer sales per square foot jumped nearly 14%.
H&R REIT has agreed to sell 27 Sunbelt and New York properties to GO Residential REIT and split its remaining assets among Blackstone Real Estate and other partners in a $6.7 billion transaction expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026.
U.S. mortgage holders held a record $18 trillion in home equity as of the second quarter, even as delinquencies and active foreclosures climbed to their highest levels in years, according to ICE’s August Mortgage Monitor report.
Sonida Senior Living closed a $372.5 million term loan with Ally Bank, retiring the remaining bridge debt from its CNL Healthcare Properties acquisition, as Q2 revenue more than doubled to $207.6 million.
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries signed a $675.6 million contract with Corban Energy Group to supply 1,000 megawatts of generator capacity for a U.S. data center, its largest power-generation order to date.
California, Texas and Florida account for more than a fifth of U.S. remodeling spending, NAHB’s latest state-level data shows, even as national remodeling activity declined for a third straight quarter.
Healthpeak Properties raised full-year guidance after senior housing same-store NOI grew 19.2% in the second quarter, even as its life science lab segment continued to lag.
Zillow Group is expanding CFO Jeremy Hofmann’s role to also cover operations and naming Cassandra Knight as its first chief legal and policy officer, a day after cutting 500 jobs.
The Ardent Companies launched a continuation vehicle backed by StepStone Group to recapitalize an eight-property, 742,855-square-foot Class A self-storage portfolio across seven states.
New analysis from BloombergNEF puts a dollar figure on Texas’s data center interconnection freeze: up to $15 billion in at-risk revenue and a possible three-month delay for nearly 50 gigawatts of capacity, with the state’s Batch Zero fast-track process the likely real target.
The U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, and the prior two months were revised sharply lower, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Aug. 7. The unemployment rate held at 4.1%, but the combination of a payroll decline and steep downward revisions points to a labor market that is cooling faster than headline numbers first … Read more
TPG AG U.S. Real Estate and Redfearn Capital have acquired a 53-building industrial portfolio for $628 million, the companies announced, adding 5.4 million square feet of shallow-bay logistics and manufacturing space concentrated in fast-growing Southeast markets. The portfolio, purchased from seller DRA Advisors, is roughly 87% occupied and spans seven states: Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, … Read more
RE/MAX Holdings swung to a $4.3 million net loss in the second quarter as U.S. agent count kept shrinking, the franchisor reported Aug. 6, just over a week before shareholders vote on the company’s pending merger with The Real Brokerage. The loss compares with net income of $4.7 million in the same quarter last year, … Read more
Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce a resolution letting local communities reject data center construction, part of a growing national backlash over AI infrastructure’s toll on electricity bills and water supplies.
A Leon County judge ruled Florida’s property tax amendment ballot language was biased, ordering a rewrite of phrases like the ‘Save Our Homes’ title before the measure appears on the November ballot.
LTC Properties expanded its partnership with operator Lifespark, buying two Minnesota senior living communities for $95 million at a 7.4% cap rate as its SHOP portfolio grows to 39 properties.
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