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 week’s list ran from a home built in 1845 to one completed this year, with stops at a pool-centered retreat in the Cliff neighborhood and nearly two acres in Edgartown.
Two condominiums in Boston led the week, followed by a French Country-style home in Brookline and two 19th-century homes in Cambridge.
Early returns show Prop 1’s $11.25 billion housing bond at 59.4% and Prop 37, a CalHFA loan program covering up to 17% of a new home’s price, at 61%. Prop 45, which would have sped up environmental review for housing and other projects, is failing with 45.9%.
A custom-built Craftsman, more than 24 acres of fields and pasture in Perry County and a brand-new five-bedroom home were among the week’s top sales.
Three condominiums, a townhouse on the water and a home in a gated Berlin golf community made up the week’s top sales.
A brick rambler on rural acreage tops a week otherwise led by Upper Marlboro homes in golf and planned communities, including one newly built home.
A renovated 19th-century home on the Stonington waterfront led a week of sales that ran from the Mystic River to a Lords Point beach community.
Lakefront homes in three communities shared the week’s top sales with a sprawling early-20th-century Colonial and a historic country estate.
Vornado’s third-quarter results show cash rents on 283,000 square feet of re-leased Manhattan office space up 25.9%, same-store NOI up 9%, and a roughly $485 million 350 Park Avenue gain coming in the fourth quarter.
A renovated Kensington Colonial led a week of established single-family homes, from a 1930s Cape Cod in Takoma Park to a wooded acre in Rockville.
Contemporary homes, ranches and a post-and-beam Cape made up a week of sales in five towns, from Southampton to East Longmeadow.
Homes on the water, new construction and an older Pinehurst home with a pool filled out a week of sales across Pinehurst and West End.
Country acreage took the top two spots, while three Winchester homes, one of them brand new, rounded out the list.
A Colonial on nearly 20 acres beside a land trust preserve sold for the top price, followed by two lake properties in Morris and a pair of Colonials in New Milford.
Two Glastonbury homes, a Marlborough Cape Cod, a South Windsor ranch and a waterfront Colonial in Manchester make up the five highest-priced sales of the week.
Thor Equities bought the 22-story, 486,000-square-foot Midtown Manhattan building, home to Progyny and Bloomsbury Publishing, for about $448 a square foot.
Gaithersburg had two of the week’s top sales, and the rest went to Damascus, Sandy Spring and Clarksburg.
A golf community home in Nevillewood topped the week, ahead of a newly built home in Parkside Meadows and three suburban Colonials from Oakmont to Southpointe.
Single-family homes in four Worcester County towns made up the week’s top sales, from early-1980s contemporaries to a home finished last year.
Backyard pools, a private sport court and 11 acres of open countryside set apart a group of four-bedroom colonials spread across five Lehigh County towns.
Two newer homes in Lancaster’s Brooklawn neighborhood shared the list with three properties on anywhere from 4.10 to 50 acres.
Two brick ramblers on wooded acreage in Clarksville, a four-level townhome in Maple Lawn and a pair of Colonials filled out the week’s top tier.
Three of the week’s five most expensive sales were in Bel Air, with the other two in Havre De Grace and Forest Hill.
A Reidsville horse property on 18 acres, a lakefront home in Stokesdale and three Summerfield homes, one of them brand new, made up the top of the market.
Milford supplied four of the five sales, from a home on the Housatonic River to a condominium above its harbor, while New Haven contributed the oldest and largest home in the group.
Trumbull claimed three of the week’s five highest-priced home sales, led by a $1.2 million sale in the Hillandale neighborhood.
Five single-family homes in Frederick, Ijamsville, Middletown and Smithsburg led the week, with prices from $715,000 to $945,000.
A century-old stucco Colonial near West Hartford Center led a week in which every one of the top five homes went under contract within six days of listing.
A riverfront home in Oxford led the list, a working farm in Preston came second, and new construction in Chester filled out the week.
A family compound on Skaneateles Lake led the week, ahead of four homes that each sold for between $680,000 and $780,000.
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