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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The Federal Reserve’s Oct. 27-28 meeting falls between September new-home sales and the first estimate of third-quarter GDP, with D.R. Horton’s year-end results and UWM’s rights-offering pricing window also on the calendar.
The closing software company’s new Earnest Money Deposit and Cash to Close products let title and escrow firms collect buyers’ funds by secure link inside Qualia Core, replacing checks and emailed wire instructions.
NMHC’s October survey found all four apartment market indexes below 50, with debt financing at 10 and 17% of executives with maturing loans warning of possible foreclosures.
Rexford Industrial raised its 2026 Core FFO guidance after same-property occupancy rose 200 basis points, while cash rents on new leases fell 7% and buybacks reached $708.7 million.
Zillow and Thumbtack put the typical homeowner’s maintenance, tax and insurance bill at $16,566 a year. Insurance rose 54% in five years, led by Dallas, Tampa and Denver.
Equity LifeStyle’s core manufactured home rents rose 5.7% in the third quarter and it expects about 5.1% growth in 2027, while seasonal and transient RV revenue fell 5.6%.
Vornado, Ken Griffin and Rudin closed their 350 Park Avenue joint venture, Citadel’s 1.05 million-square-foot lease and a $3.3 billion construction loan from seven banks on Oct. 21.
Spring Grove had the two highest-priced sales of the week, and only one of the five homes came with less than nine acres of land.
Two contemporaries, a Craftsman lake home and a pair of Colonials that sold for the same price made up the week’s top tier in five different towns.
A townhouse took the top spot, and all five sales landed between $849,950 and $1,008,000.
Three beach homes in Corolla, a sound-view home in Harbinger and a waterfront contemporary in Port Haywood made up the top of the market.
A compound on Cazenovia Lake and a ridgetop home on more than 25 acres outside the same village led a week of country and lake properties.
Sales in five towns, from West Springfield to Wilbraham, made up the week’s top tier, with prices running from $620,000 to $900,000.
Every home in the week’s top five sits on more than an acre, and four of the five are in Lackawanna County.
The week’s top sales ran from a condominium in Rochester’s Central Business District to a home on a golf course in Victor.
A home finished in 2025 on nearly three acres led the week, followed by a custom West End home and three older brick homes in the city of Richmond, the oldest of them designed in 1921.
Two sales in Cary, two in Wake Forest and one in Raleigh, ranging from $1.515 million to $1.95 million, made up the week’s top five.
Shoreline homes in Washington County took four of the five places, and a Craftsman-inspired home on Blackstone Boulevard rounded out the list.
A restored farm in Pawling, a gated retreat in Tuxedo Park and three homes in Hopewell Junction, Beacon and Pleasant Valley made up the week’s top sales.
From the coast at Cumberland Foreside and Bailey Island to the lakes of Bridgton and Raymond, each of the week’s top sales came from a different Cumberland County town.
A brick townhouse above the city, a Southern Colonial by a private lake and an estate of nearly 13 acres in Butler County lead a week of brick homes.
Sales in Cheshire, Madison, Middlebury and North Haven filled out a week that ranged from a new-construction Colonial to a mid-century ranch.
A working farm, a wooded Colonial, a brand-new home in Lititz and a downtown ranch with its own pool were among the week’s highest-priced closings across Lancaster County.
Two homes near the water in Westbrook and Old Saybrook joined three large Colonials in Farmington and Avon among the week’s top sales.
Two renovated ranch homes from the 1950s and 1960s led the week, followed by a wooded Middletown property and a pair of Mechanicsburg homes.
Homes on golf courses, a country property of more than 10 acres and two newly built homes made up the week’s top sales across Guilford and Randolph counties.
Two Fayetteville homes tied for second place at $590,000, and a newly built home in Raeford was the only sale outside Cumberland County.
A renovated modern home in Hunts Reserve led the list, followed by a horse property on open land in Hillsborough.
A Colonial on more than four acres, a century-old home near Buffalo’s parks and a 1970s architect-designed Contemporary were among the week’s top sales.
Two Stevensville properties, a West Severna Park Colonial, a Magothy River retreat in Pasadena and a golf-course home in Edgewater made up the week’s top sales.
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