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 waterfront condominium in The Harbor, a gated Greenwich community, sold for $6.50 million, the highest reported home sale in the Bridgeport, Connecticut metro area for the week ending September 13, 2026.
Fifty-nine percent of title firms reported at least one seller impersonation fraud attempt in 2025, more than double the 28% in ALTA’s 2024 study. Vacant land is still the top target, deepfaked voices are spreading, and a quarter of affected firms paid claims.
A custom-built North Chattanooga house sold for $2.25 million to lead five reported home sales in the Chattanooga, Tennessee metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
The Fed decides Wednesday with fresh projections, and builder sentiment, housing starts and pending home sales all land within 48 hours of it.
A single-level bayfront home in Coronado Village sold for $13.50 million, the highest-priced sale reported in the San Diego metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A contemporary custom home in Summerlin’s guard-gated Tournament Hills community sold for $5.8 million, the highest-priced sale reported in the Las Vegas metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A seven-bedroom oceanfront estate in Ponte Vedra Beach sold for $19.75 million, the highest-priced home sale reported in the Jacksonville, Florida metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A gated Old Fort Lowell contemporary sold for $1.80 million, the highest-priced home sale reported in the Tucson metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A waterfront estate in the gated Cliffs at Keowee Springs golf community sold for $5.30 million, the highest-priced home sale reported in the Greenville, South Carolina metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A newly built coastal modern home in Sarasota’s Cherokee Park neighborhood sold for $10.14 million, the highest-priced home sale reported in the North Port, Florida metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A five-bedroom house in Madison’s Bellawoods community sold for $1.01 million, the highest reported home sale in the Huntsville, Alabama metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A fast-growing northeast Florida county has paused about $100 million in capital projects and banked $30 million in extra reserves while voters decide whether to cut property taxes on Nov. 3.
A house overlooking Lake Kegonsa in Stoughton sold for $1.90 million, the highest reported home sale in the Madison, Wisconsin metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A newly built Lewisville home on a wooded 0.92-acre lot sold for $1.48 million to lead five reported sales in the Winston, North Carolina metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4 percent in August and 3.4 percent over the year, but shelter costs eased to a 3.0 percent annual pace days before the Federal Reserve meets.
Freddie Mac’s Sept. 10 survey put the 30-year fixed rate at 6.76%, the highest since June 2025, as crude oil prices and producer inflation pushed bond yields up days before the Fed meets.
A newly completed custom ranch in Leo led the five highest-priced home sales reported across the Fort Wayne, Indiana metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A Jessup Ridge house in Greensboro sold for $995,000, the highest of five reported home sales in the Greensboro metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A house on the sixth green at Highland Country Club led reported home sales in the Fayetteville, North Carolina metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A Grand Blanc home overlooking the 12th tee at The Captain’s Club at Woodfield sold for $950,000, the highest reported home sale in the Flint metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A four-bedroom house in Villa Venezia at Grande Dunes sold for $1.82 million, the highest reported home sale in the Myrtle Beach metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A newly completed oceanfront home on Brown Pelican Road in Sea Pines sold for $14,234,500, the highest reported sale in the Hilton Head Island metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
A three-bedroom oceanfront property at 705 S Boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach sold for $6.05 million, the highest-priced home sale reported in the Salisbury metro area for the week ending September 6, 2026.
ConstructConnect and Oxford Economics raised their 2026 nonresidential building forecast to 8.7% growth, but nearly the entire $78 billion increase in commercial construction traces to data centers, while manufacturing falls 43% and residential starts drop 10.5%.
An NBC News Decision Desk Poll released Sept. 6 found 69% of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their local area — including 57% of Republicans — as entitlement risk becomes the binding constraint on the largest growth category in U.S. nonresidential construction.
The August Employment Situation report beat forecasts by a wide margin and revised June and July higher, pushing the Federal Reserve further from a rate cut. Construction added 22,000 jobs, with residential trades gaining and nonresidential building slipping.
Mortgage rates reached a 13-month high, new listings hit their highest level since 2022, construction spending slipped again, and Rocket named a new chief executive at Redfin. Here are the eight stories that shaped the week in real estate.
A house two doors from the Rehoboth Beach Boardwalk sold for $4.67 million, the highest of five reported sales in the Salisbury, Maryland metro area for the week ending August 30, 2026.
Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey put the 30-year fixed-rate average at 6.71% for the week ending Sept. 3, the highest since July 2025, as long-term government bond yields climbed in the U.S., Japan and Europe.
Redfin data published Wednesday shows San Francisco’s median sale price up 6% to $1.6 million with inventory down 18.4%, while Seattle’s price fell 3.6% and listings rose 16.7% — a split the brokerage ties to where AI money is landing.
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