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 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.
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.
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