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 custom home built by Imperial Homes in The Cliffs sold for $1,455,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Fort Wayne, Indiana metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A newly built four-bedroom house in Madison’s Bellawoods community sold for $999,900 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Huntsville, Alabama metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A Lobdell Lake Estates house with a private dock and a dedicated boat slip sold for $625,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Flint, Michigan metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A prairie-style home on 1.5 acres in Verona’s Moraine Highland sold for $1.57 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Madison, Wisconsin metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A custom home completed this year on Signal Mountain sold for $1,665,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Chattanooga, Tennessee metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
The top five reported home sales in the Miami metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026, led by a $27.5 million house in Palm Beach’s Phipps Plaza.
The Finch House, a 1921 estate in downtown Thomasville, sold for $1.90 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Winston, North Carolina metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A 1907 house on Melrose Avenue in Kenilworth sold for $4.6 million to lead the Chicago metro area’s top five reported home sales for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A 1927 house in Charlotte’s Myers Park sold for $3.10 million, leading five Charlotte metro area home sales totaling $14.15 million for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A hillside estate in Henderson’s guard-gated Ascaya community sold for $17.25 million to lead the Las Vegas metro area’s top five reported home sales for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A renovated eight-bedroom house on Hopewell Road sold for $2.75 million, leading the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Cincinnati metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A Green Valley house known as the Bridge House sold for $2.60 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Greenville, South Carolina metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A 2014 contemporary in Oro Valley’s Stone Canyon sold for $4.25 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Tucson, Arizona metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A 2014 house in the Brook at Stone Bluff neighborhood of Jenks sold for $1.10 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Tulsa, Oklahoma metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
An oceanfront estate completed in 2024 in Ponte Vedra Beach sold for $16.5 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Jacksonville, Florida metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A gated Lake Wehapa waterfront home in Leeds sold for $2.35 million, leading the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Birmingham, Alabama metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A 1926 house on Monument Avenue in Richmond sold for $2,235,000, leading the metro area’s five highest-priced reported home sales for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A newly built house on Summit Avenue in Cardiff sold for $9.30 million to lead the San Diego metro area’s top five home sales for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A full-floor residence at 25 Beacon St on Beacon Hill sold for $8.40 million, leading the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Boston metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A Mediterranean Revival house on the Corinthian Island waterfront in Belvedere sold for $15 million to lead the San Francisco metro area’s top five home sales for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A Gulf-front cottage in Holmes Beach sold for $6.4 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the North Port, Florida metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A newly built Manderley brick home in Oak Ridge sold for $1.35 million to lead the Greensboro metro area’s top five reported home sales for the week ending August 16, 2026.
Securityholders of The Real Brokerage and RE/MAX Holdings approved their combination, clearing the way for a roughly $2.3 billion-revenue global brokerage platform spanning more than 180,000 agents.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier released rewritten ballot language for the state’s contested property tax amendment after a judge found the original wording misleading, with plaintiffs now given 10 days to object before the November vote.
Buying a starter home still costs $858 more per month than renting nationally, but Realtor.com’s July report finds seven metros — including Orlando, Miami and Seattle — shifting toward buyers as prices fall faster than rents.
Birmingham, Ala., had the highest net share of investor homebuyers of any major U.S. metro in 2025, according to Realtor.com, as cash-flow-focused investors favor affordable Midwest and Rust Belt cities over coastal markets.
A new SEC filing shows Berkshire Hathaway raised its Lennar stake to about $1.157 billion and opened a small D.R. Horton position in the second quarter, deepening its homebuilder bets after the $8.5 billion Taylor Morrison deal.
AvalonBay Communities and Equity Residential completed their merger Aug. 17, forming Vivmark Residential, a roughly $51 billion apartment REIT that begins trading Aug. 18 with a newly named executive team.
A new Columbia University benchmark found leading AI models missed nearly a quarter of mortgage underwriting questions and showed sharp bias flagging deposits from non-English names as suspicious.
Single-family permits fell 4.2% nationally in the first half of 2026 while multifamily permits rose 4.5%, according to an NAHB analysis of Census Bureau data, with sharp regional divides between the two segments.
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