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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Google confirmed it is the end user of a 506-acre data center campus under construction near Owasso in Tulsa County, Okla., developed under the code name Project Clydesdale.
Michigan Republican Senate nominee Mike Rogers now supports a one-year statewide moratorium on new data centers, reversing his July position as opposition to AI infrastructure crosses party lines.
Indianapolis has finalized a moratorium halting new data center development through the end of 2027, adding Indiana’s largest city to a fast-growing list of communities restricting the industry.
A typical family needed 34% of its income to cover the mortgage on a median-priced new home in the second quarter, up from 32% in the first, as higher mortgage rates and rising costs reversed three straight quarters of improving affordability, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Cost of Housing Index.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed 15,855 foreclosure prevention actions in May, down from the prior month, while the serious delinquency rate held at a low 0.58%, according to the FHFA.
Knightvest Capital has acquired three apartment communities totaling 1,027 units in Round Rock, Texas, in the Austin metro, saying it bought the value-add portfolio at a steep discount to recent trades and replacement cost.
REDICO and newly formed real assets firm One Orchard have launched InfraMed Properties, a medical outpatient real estate platform starting with a 25-asset portfolio across 16 states and targeting more than $1 billion in investments.
The Eighth Circuit upheld the Sitzer/Burnett settlements, rejecting objectors and cementing the practice changes that transformed how U.S. agents are paid.
California voters will decide in November whether the state should borrow $11.25 billion to attack its affordable housing shortage, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation putting the measure on the ballot as Proposition 1. The bond, created through Senate Bill 417 and formally titled the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, would be … Read more
ATLANTA — Comcast is putting a significant chunk of its regional office footprint in metro Atlanta up for sublease, offering roughly seven floors at One Ballpark Center, the tower it anchors inside The Battery Atlanta mixed-use district next to Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, according to CoStar News. The listing covers a large … Read more
San Francisco home prices have hit a median of $1.7 million as AI industry wealth drives bidding wars, with one in three Bay Area sales now all-cash, per a new CNN report.
National home prices were nearly flat month over month in July even as annual growth hit a one-year high, with San Francisco and West Palm Beach leading gains and Texas metros leading declines, Redfin’s home price index shows.
Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire net-lease investment firm LCN Capital Partners for up to $410 million, expanding the bank’s asset management platform into sale-leaseback deals.
NVIDIA, OpenAI and SoftBank have moved from exploratory talks to a formal agreement on an 8-gigawatt AI data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, with NVIDIA committing $1.5 billion directly to the project’s developer and backstopping $4.2 billion in new regional grid infrastructure.
A Midtown penthouse at 111 West 57th Street sold for $41.75 million, leading the five highest-priced home sales reported in the New York metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A Seatowne bayfront home at Fenwick Island sold for $3.45 million, leading the Salisbury, Maryland metro area’s top five home sales for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A Palmetto Bluff residence in Bluffton sold for $2,349,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Hilton Head Island, South Carolina metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A newly finished house in Westhaven sold for $710,000, the highest of five Fayetteville, North Carolina metro area home sales totaling $2.59 million for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A custom Mediterranean house overlooking a fountain pond in Grande Dunes sold for $1,525,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
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.
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