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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Three homes on the water in Middlesex County and two large Colonials in Avon made up the week’s most expensive sales.
Five two-story homes in Dauphin and Cumberland counties, built across nearly nine decades, led the week, with a Hummelstown home at the top.
A newly built home in Oak Ridge led the week, with the rest of the list spread across Summerfield, Greensboro and a second Oak Ridge neighborhood.
Two brand-new homes, a 1970s brick home on wooded acreage and a pool property in Eastover filled out the area’s top sales.
A Chapel Hill lakefront home, a farmhouse on more than 10 acres and two homes finished this year lead a week of sales spread across Orange, Durham and Chatham counties.
A condominium with its own walkout lower level, a 2019 ranch, a wooded property with a barn and two Colonials made up the week’s top sales, and every one went under contract within 15 days of being listed.
Every one of the week’s top sales came from Saratoga County, with a custom home in Gansevoort at the head of the list.
Zillow’s September market report shows newly pending sales down 8.5% year over year with the 30-year mortgage rate at 7.28%, while the typical U.S. rent rose 2.7% — the fastest annual pace since April 2025.
Estates on several acres, a contemporary ranch and a recently built home led the week’s sales in Pittsburgh and Sewickley.
Two waterfront homes in one Rehoboth Beach community led a week of coastal sales that also reached Bethany Beach and Lewes.
A North Raleigh new build topped $5 million, and two Wake Forest homes changed hands at an identical price.
Westerly’s shoreline neighborhoods account for three of the five top sales, with waterfront homes in Narragansett and South Kingstown completing the list.
Four of the week’s five top sales were in York County, from Cape Neddick and York Harbor to Kittery, and the fifth was a newly built home in Cumberland Foreside.
Waterfront homes in Mooresville took the top two places and three of the five, with a brand-new Cotswold home and a golf-course home in Cornelius completing the list.
A waterfront home in Mashpee, a newer home in North Chatham, two Provincetown homes and a contemporary Cape in South Chatham made up the week’s top sales.
A home yet to be built in a 55-plus community, an A-frame in Lake Harmony and a pair of Center Valley Colonials with in-ground pools were among the region’s top sales.
Arden accounted for three of the week’s five highest-priced sales, including the top one, while a Zirconia estate and a rebuilt Sunset Mountain contemporary filled out the list.
A home finished in 1907 and two completed this year shared the list with a waterfront condominium, and Greenwich addresses accounted for four of the five sales.
A historic country estate in Howard County topped the list, and three Annapolis homes on the water followed close behind.
Deductibles and coverage limits leave households responsible for 29% of expected property losses, and lower-FICO policyholders and homes facing the worst tail risk retain the most, two economists find in a New York Fed post.
Two brand-new homes, an Edgemoor shingle-style residence, a golf course home in Creighton Farms and a two-acre Rockville property made up the week’s top sales.
A Bucks County country property led the week, ahead of two Villanova homes, an estate in Berwyn’s Buttonwood Farms and a Colonial in Newtown Square.
A working farm on the North Fork, a Park Avenue condominium and country and shore homes from Westhampton Beach to Spring Lake and Bedford Hills made up the week’s top sales.
A downtown Portsmouth property with two residences led the week, ahead of a penthouse facing the Public Garden, two suburban Colonials and a Beacon Hill condominium.
OIRA received Treasury’s proposed rule implementing the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act’s ban on large institutional investor purchases of single-family homes on Oct. 2. The prohibition itself takes effect Jan. 7, 2027.
Sen. Mike Lee introduced S. 5646 on Sept. 30, a two-page bill that would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act so its definition of “employee” excludes qualified real estate agents and direct sellers, replacing the Labor Department’s case-by-case test with a statutory rule.
September payrolls rose 29,000, below the prior year’s monthly average, and revisions erased 60,000 jobs from July and August. Construction’s 11,000 gain came entirely from nonresidential work.
A West Springfield home sold for $760,000, the highest-priced of five home sales reported across the Springfield metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A custom home on 15.09 acres in the Stonybrook-Wilshire area of York sold for $1,100,000, the highest-priced of five reported home sales in the York, Pennsylvania metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A five-bedroom lakefront home in Skaneateles sold for $4.60 million, $1,100,100 above the final asking price. It was the highest reported home sale in the Syracuse metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
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