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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A 2025 house in downtown Bentonville sold for $1.95 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Fayetteville, Arkansas metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026, with the four remaining closings recorded in Rogers.
Five reported home sales in the Raleigh, North Carolina metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026 totaled $15.60 million, led by a Country Club Hills estate that sold for $3.75 million.
Five reported home sales in the Cleveland, Ohio metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026 totaled $7.33 million, led by a 2023-built custom house on Tulip Lane in Chagrin Falls that sold for $1.95 million.
Five reported home sales in the Columbus, Ohio metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026 totaled $9.66 million, led by a 1941 Canterbury house that sold for $2.30 million.
An oceanfront house on Highway A1A in Melbourne Beach sold for $4.66 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Palm Bay, Florida metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A renovated 1959 lakefront house on Rubicon Bay sold for $7.02 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Sacramento, California metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A gated 2004 estate in Lake Oswego sold for $2.88 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Portland, Oregon metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
Multifamily mortgage originations rebounded sharply last year as 2,530 lenders participated in the market, up from 2,463 in 2024, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual survey found.
The all-stock deal pushes Global Net Lease’s industrial exposure to roughly half its rent roll, immediately adding about 4% to AFFO per share as the REIT continues shedding office and retail assets.
The Chamber’s new council, with James Hardie, Citi and UMH Properties also on board, aims to turn recently enacted federal housing reforms into local zoning, financing and workforce changes.
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
A 2008 custom home in Atlanta’s Powers Ferry Estates sold for $3.35 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Atlanta, Georgia metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
Under Oak, a French Norman Revival estate on 2.27 acres in American University Park, sold for $8.75 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Washington, D.C. metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A newly completed contemporary home overlooking the golf course at Bighorn Golf Club in Palm Desert sold for $14.50 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Riverside, California metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A 2017 waterfront house on Upper Straits Lake in Orchard Lake sold for $2.85 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Detroit, Michigan metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A newly completed home in the Bella Collina community at Montverde sold for $3.90 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Orlando, Florida metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A 2023 house on Riviera Drive in Tampa sold for $4.9 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Tampa, Florida metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A renovated 1902 residence on Academy Avenue in Sewickley sold for $2.60 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
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.
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