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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Doug Middleton, who ran CBRE’s New York institutional investment sales group for eight years, joins Cushman & Wakefield as executive vice chairman with Jack Stillwagon.
An average of 47% of builders reported shortages across the nine trades NAHB has tracked since 1996 — a higher reading than any during the last housing boom, at nearly 30% fewer housing starts.
Three newly built homes shared the list with a country property on a dozen acres and a 1990s home with a pool.
Homes built across nearly two centuries, from 1830 to 2000, made up the top of the market, with an equestrian property in Uxbridge in first place.
A Fayetteville home built in 1820, with a barn and a pool house on its grounds, led a week of sales that reached from Skaneateles to Baldwinsville.
Wilbraham had two of the week’s five highest-priced sales, and the other three were spread across Longmeadow, Agawam and West Springfield.
Three of the five highest-priced sales were in Clarks Summit, and the homes were built across more than a century, from 1888 to 1992.
A home built in 1915 on Lake Ontario and a townhouse finished in 2025 mark the two ends of a week that also brought a ranch built for two households and a pair of wooded suburban homes.
A renovated Colonial with a resort-style backyard led a week in which every one of the five top sales landed between $1,075,000 and $1,300,000.
A penthouse condominium in the city, a villa on a golf course and three single-family homes made up the week’s top sales.
A wooded Blue Mountain ranch on five acres, a 2023 home in Stray Winds Farm and a pool-and-pool-house property in Lisburn Meadows were among the week’s top sales, and every one of the five went under contract within 10 days of listing.
A home on the water, a brand-new build in Grandover, a custom home in Wolf Ridge, a Lands End townhouse and a golf course property in Summerfield made up the week’s top five.
A six-bedroom two-story in Hope Mills led the week, with the five sales ranging from $378,500 to $510,000.
A custom Ranch on more than two acres in Clarence Center led a group of sales that stretched from Buffalo’s Park Meadow neighborhood to Youngstown.
Optimal Blue’s September Market Advantage report shows adjustable-rate loans at 14 percent of locks and non-QM at 12 percent of production, while rate-and-term refinancing fell 82 percent year over year and the conforming 30-year ended the month at 7.39 percent.
ISS and Glass Lewis both recommended that Sunrise Realty Trust shareholders approve the stock issuance behind its merger with Southern Realty Trust, a deal that would consolidate 12 shared loans onto one balance sheet and trigger a conditional $20 million buyback.
Existing-home sales rose 1.5% in September to a 3.99 million annual rate, NAR said Oct. 13, but remained 2.2% below a year earlier as investors and second-home buyers took 20% of transactions.
A stone-walled farmstead with a barn and a pond tops a week that also brought two Colonials on an acre or more and a pair of New Jersey sales in Warren County.
Three newly built homes took the top three places, and two homes built in the 1990s in Clemmons completed the list.
Three shoreline homes and two on more than two acres made the list, from a just-built waterfront home to a Colonial dating from the 1980s.
A condominium facing Congress Park led the week, followed by a lake home on more than 15 acres, a Pine Bush colonial and two homes that each sold for $800,000.
A restored Victorian and a centuries-old stone farm estate topped a week that also brought a riverfront contemporary and a newly built ranch home.
Two oceanfront homes led the week, followed by a newer home in Lewes, a townhouse in Dewey Beach and a wooded property in Bridgeville.
Two condominiums in New York County, a newly built estate in East Hampton and two waterfront homes in New Jersey made up the week’s top sales.
Farmland outside the city, a newer home in Mills River, a Tudor, a downtown condominium and a home near a golf course made up the week’s top sales.
Two furnished vacation homes in Corolla’s Ocean Sands community framed the list, with three Williamsburg sales, from a country estate to a newly built home, in between.
A mid-century home in the city, two newly built homes and a pair of renovated homes on one Midlothian road made up the week’s top tier.
A log home on a Bridgton lake led the list, ahead of a downtown Portland condominium, a Sebago Lake retreat, a beachfront home in Wells built in 1920 and a penthouse in the East End.
Homes on a river and a lake lead the list, followed by a Rocky Hill property built around recreation, a West Hartford condominium and a Glastonbury Colonial with views of Hartford.
A Durham estate led a week that also brought two sales in Chapel Hill’s Meadowmont, a home in Apex and a 19th-century farmhouse in Rougemont.
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