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 Transitional home with a fenced pool on a wooded Foxcroft cul-de-sac led a week of sales that ran from Eastover to the golf community of Longview and a new home near downtown Davidson.
An architect-designed home on landscaped acreage, a Mid-Country Colonial and three in-town family homes made up the week’s most expensive sales.
Harbor and bay settings, a deepwater dock and a home finished this year mark a week of sales spread across five Cape towns.
MBA’s Oct. 11 forecast puts 2027 one- to four-family originations at $1.994 trillion, a 5% decline from 2026 and $107 billion below what the association projected a month earlier, after it raised its 30-year rate path to 7.1% or higher through next year.
A Victorian townhouse on Swann Street, a new Forest Hills home with a pool and a Craftsman still under construction in Bethesda were among the week’s top sales.
Homes in Glenwood, Country Club Hills and Hayes Barton took the top three places, with sales in Wake Forest and Cary completing the list.
A newly built home by the shore, two historic Colonials in Newport and Providence and a pair of Block Island properties made up the week’s top sales.
A high-rise condominium in the city joined four suburban single-family homes, from Gladwyne and Devon to New Hope and Doylestown, among the week’s top sales.
A full-floor home on Commonwealth Avenue, a renovated Colonial in Wellesley and a Federal-style home in Milton share the list with two New Hampshire homes on the water.
A Bay estate, a restored stone manor on a golf course, a creekside contemporary and two Georgian homes made up the week’s top sales.
Mortgage rates hit a three-year high, September’s Fed minutes showed most officials still expect another increase this year, and a record home-equity figure arrived with sharply slower growth. Plus HUD’s manufactured-housing proposal, Hurricane Isaias and four consolidation moves.
PLACE has agreed to buy Ardley, whose AI reads a lender’s servicing portfolio and pushes pre-structured loan offers to existing borrowers. Terms were not disclosed. It is PLACE’s second mortgage-technology purchase since Sept. 24.
A privately held hospitality investor says it has bid $2 billion in cash for all 93 of Service Properties Trust’s hotels, a price it says exceeds the REIT’s entire market value. SVC had filed no response as of Oct. 9.
Freddie Mac’s survey average rose for a seventh straight week, to 7.40% from 7.28%, as 10-year Treasury yields held above 5.2% and mortgage applications fell 35% from a year ago.
Florida’s insurer of last resort stopped writing new coverage on Oct. 7, a day before Isaias became the season’s first hurricane and warnings went up from Mississippi to the Florida Panhandle.
Fair Isaac disclosed in an Oct. 6 SEC filing that it will cut about 15% of positions across the company, taking $27 million in severance charges, even as scores revenue grew more than 40% year over year.
The Dodge Momentum Index rose 2.4% in September to 288.0, but the gain came from hospitals and schools. Commercial planning fell 1.3% for the month and, excluding data centers, is down 14.9% from a year ago.
Realtor.com added RealAssist AI to Realtor.com+ on Oct. 6, automating client setup, summarizing daily client activity and drafting actions agents approve. The platform is live in 21 markets serving more than 192,000 agents.
A horse farm in Wellsville led the week, while homes in three York neighborhoods and a wooded property in Delta filled out the list.
A historic equestrian property, three Colonials and a brand-new home in five different towns made up the week’s top sales.
A 1938 home by Northup & O’Brien, a Clemmons property with a barn on more than six acres and a new home in Lewisville were among the week’s top sales.
Three Outer Banks homes in Corolla share the list with a brick home in a Williamsburg golf community and a restored lighthouse standing in open water.
Skaneateles, Syracuse, Fayetteville, Cicero and Marcellus each had one of the week’s top sales, with prices from $670,000 to $1,060,000.
A home finished in 2024 and one built in 1890 bracket a week of sales that ran from Ludlow and Chicopee to Southwick and Springfield’s McKnight Historic District.
A lakeside retreat in a private community, a split-level remodeled around an in-ground pool and a home finished in 2023 on wooded acreage joined a sprawling ranch at the top of the week’s sales.
Two lakefront homes, a wooded Victor ranch and a newer Victor colonial followed a Pittsford contemporary with a resort-style pool, and every one of the five went under contract within 12 days of listing.
A rebuilt Lockgreen home, a 1951 Hillcrest home with room for six bedrooms, a new build in Westhampton and two homes near the James River made up the week’s top sales.
A country estate in Clinton Corners, a brand-new home in Tuxedo Park, a loft condominium in Beacon and two homes in Hopewell Junction made up the week’s top sales.
A wooded lakeside property, two Madison homes near the shore, a brand-new Colonial in Cheshire and an architect-designed home in Branford made up the week’s top sales.
Five homes in Lancaster and Dauphin counties sold for $1 million or more, from a post-and-beam design in the Denver woods to a French country home in Ephrata.
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