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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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.
Sixth Street, in partnership with Riller Capital, has acquired the 142-room Pier House Resort & Spa in Key West, Fla., for $190 million from Braemar Hotels & Resorts, according to SEC filings and a company announcement.
Ousted Better.com founder Vishal Garg says he has secured majority shareholder backing and retained attorney Alex Spiro to retake the mortgage lender’s board. The company fired back, calling him a “terminated CEO” and disputing his account of events.
Residential building material prices rose 5.0% year-over-year in July, the fastest pace since 2022, as softwood lumber posted its sharpest monthly gain in over a year, NAHB finds.
FinCEN’s final rule permanently eliminates beneficial ownership reporting for most U.S. businesses, ending a fight that drew opposition from homeowners associations and LLC-holding property owners.
Marc and Joan Hendel moved into their newly built Bourne, Mass., retirement home in March 2025. A month later, the state moved to seize it by eminent domain to replace the aging Sagamore Bridge.
A waterfront colonial at Grove Beach Point in Westbrook sold for $2.45 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Hartford, Connecticut metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A six-bedroom Westchester house sold for $1.80 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Omaha, Nebraska metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A 1923 Connecticut Colonial on Round Hill Road in Greenwich sold for $12 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Bridgeport, Connecticut metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A custom-built 2007 house on Isle of Palms sold for $4.05 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Charleston, South Carolina metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A 1967 colonial on two lots in Bethlehem’s Saucon Valley Farm Orchard sold for $1.40 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Allentown, Pennsylvania metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A golf-course home in Bonita Springs’ Bay Woods sold for $3.8 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Cape Coral, Florida metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A house completed in 2024 at the end of a Stockton cul-de-sac sold for $2.05 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Stockton, California metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A golf-front house built this year at 46 Miramont Blvd sold for $1.69 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Little Rock, Arkansas metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A renovated waterfront house on a point lot in Flagler Beach sold for $3.30 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Deltona, Florida metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
Five home sales reported in the Spokane, Washington metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026 totaled $8.28 million, led by a $2.42 million custom home in Liberty Lake’s Legacy Ridge.
A 2023 house on Bald Head Island sold for $2,995,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Wilmington, North Carolina metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A custom 2021 ranch on a Longmeadow cul-de-sac sold for $1,625,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Springfield, Massachusetts metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A custom-built house on a cul-de-sac in Mobile’s Country Club Court sold for $589,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Mobile, Alabama metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A 2006 house in Metamora’s Cedar Creek sold for $700,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Peoria, Illinois metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026, with three of the week’s closings recorded in Dunlap.
A 2022 house with 90 feet of deep-water frontage on Old River in Orange Beach sold for $5,200,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Daphne, Alabama metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A 2002 beachfront house on Wellfleet Harbor sold for $5.20 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Barnstable Town, Massachusetts metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
A 1999 house on a landscaped acre in Germantown sold for $1,300,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales publicly reported in the Memphis, Tennessee metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
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