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 joint venture will turn the 70,000-seat, fixed-roof stadium’s design into a budgeted, buildable plan and run bidding ahead of 2027 sitework and a 2031 opening.
Figure Technology Solutions reported Q3 marketplace volume of $5.8 billion, up 135%, with Kiavi adding investor loans, while its gross take rate fell to 3.9% and is guided lower.
A three-story building at 1321 Flatbush Avenue fell into an excavation pit next door on Nov. 11. City records show the adjacent lot is slated for a nine-story, 64-unit building whose main application is not yet approved.
A pair of prewar homes in Charleston’s South Hills share the list with a brick one-level home in Winfield and ranches in Hurricane and South Charleston.
Every home on this week’s list has four bedrooms and two stories, but the settings range from a cul-de-sac in Bay Tree to wooded acreage with a pond and a country property in Grays Creek.
A log home on more than 10 acres in Clear Spring led a week that also took in country ranches in Williamsport and Hancock and two homes in Hagerstown’s North End.
Three homes along the golf course at Heritage Shores in Bridgeville and two in Milford made up the week’s five highest-priced sales, with one agent on both sides of two of them.
Two log homes led the week’s sales, followed by a river-view contemporary, a Colonial and a custom home.
Two homes on acreage in Amherst and three brick homes with Lynchburg addresses, built between 1957 and 1999, made up the week’s top sales.
A three-story contemporary led a week of single-family sales that took in brick Colonials, a hi-ranch with a backyard pool and a home with a summer kitchen.
This week’s list runs from a home built in the 1920s to one finished in 2006, with prices from $775,000 to just over $1 million.
Bright MLS counted 12% fewer closed sales and 17.4% fewer new contracts across the Mid-Atlantic in October, with the D.C. metro leading the pullback as listings piled up.
Country acreage, a brand-new Colonial and two homes in established York neighborhoods made up the week’s top sales.
Two brick Colonials from the 1960s led the week, and Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. agents listed two of the five homes.
Two-story homes and one-level ranches built from 1960 to 2008 made up the week’s list, spread across four towns.
Prices ran from $673,500 to $970,000, with Warwick’s Heritage Park at the top and a newly built Colonial closing out the list.
Each of the week’s five highest-priced sales was a single-family home in a different town, and the same agent worked both sides of two of them.
Four of the week’s five top sales were in Onondaga County, and the one in Madison County led them all.
A lake community retreat, a Cape Cod on wooded acreage, a new townhouse, a log home and a country property with a barn and pond made up the week’s top sales.
Two colonials and three ranches, among them a pair of homes built in 2025, made up the week’s five priciest sales across Hampden County.
A Winchester Colonial topped the week’s list, with the other four sales in Front Royal, Berryville and Strasburg.
Private docks, creek and river frontage and open acreage ran through the week’s sales, which stretched from Montross to Urbanna.
Country homes in Preston County took three of the five places, and two Morgantown neighborhood homes completed the list.
Colonials, a Ranch bordering conservation land and a log home on wooded acreage made up a week in which three homes sold for the same price.
A new home in Townsend and a midcentury ranch in Newark join two Middletown homes and a Hockessin Colonial on this week’s list.
Homes with private docks on the bay and on a canal share the week with an oceanfront condominium, in sales stretching from West Ocean City to Ocean Pines.
Two new homes, a Colonial in Lititz and a ranch in Willow Street joined a Manor Twp home at the top of the week’s sales.
A home on the water led a week that also took in a golf-course ranch in Newton, a country property on wooded acreage and a brand-new brick home.
A Craftsman on more than nine acres along a creek tops a week in which the other four sales, from a newly built Colonial to a townhouse in a 55-and-over community, were all in Bel Air.
A Colonial on nearly three acres, a Cape with a saltwater pool, an antique home under restoration and a new townhouse in a 55-and-over community joined a Middlebury sale at the top of the list.
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