Steve Thompson is a staff reporter for RealtyWire, where he covers residential real estate, mortgage trends, home sales, housing market data, real estate finance, industry regulation, and the issues affecting Realtors, buyers, sellers, lenders, and property owners.
Before joining RealtyWire, Steve worked as a mortgage broker, giving him direct experience with the financing side of real estate transactions. His background in the mortgage business gives him valuable insight into how interest rates, lending standards, affordability, buyer demand, and regulatory changes influence the broader real estate market.
Steve brings a practical understanding of home sales, market analysis, real estate trends, financing issues, and the laws and regulations that shape residential real estate. His reporting focuses on making complex market and mortgage-related topics clear and useful for readers across the real estate industry.
He earned a Bachelor of Science in Business from the University of Central Florida and currently lives in Orlando, Florida.
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A Todds Station property with a horse barn led the week, ahead of a golf course home in Harrods Ridge and three more sales in Lexington and Paris.
Two Okemos neighborhoods, a Haslett ranch and two country properties with acreage made up the week’s top sales around Lansing.
A Caledonia lakefront home topped the week, with sales in Grand Haven, Holland, Hudsonville and Spring Lake close behind.
A brand-new three-story home on a pond led the week, followed by four homes spread from wooded country acreage to a Huntertown subdivision.
Two lake homes, a country property with pastures and barns, a brand-new ranch and a remodeled two-story make up the week’s top sales in Genesee County.
Wooded acreages, a brand-new ranch and a century-old home made up the week’s biggest closings, and RE/MAX Concepts agents listed the top three.
A home in Troy built in 2019 led a week of custom homes on wooded lots and acreage, with sales in Dayton, Spring Valley and Troy across three counties.
Delaware County accounted for three of the week’s five highest-priced sales, two of them in Galena, while the list also reached Heron Bay on Buckeye Lake in Perry County.
A wooded contemporary near the Chagrin River, a Lake Erie townhome and a 1938 Colonial in Shaker Heights were among the week’s top sales.
A remodeled home on acreage led the week, ahead of a Bellshire home with a pool and workshop and three newly built homes.
A ranch on the water led the week, followed by homes with pools on large lots in Aurora and Richfield and colonials in Akron and Hudson.
Realtor.com projects baby boomers and the Silent Generation will release 13.9 million owner-occupied homes between 2026 and 2036, a 74% jump over the prior decade. Only about 380,000 are starter homes, and the firm says the handoff will not move entry-level affordability.
Fathom Holdings and Neighborhood Intelligence, the company formerly known as Bed Bath & Beyond, terminated their merger agreement on Oct. 5, saying current valuations would not reflect the fair value of either company. NXH will also keep the tZERO stake it had proposed to swap for control of the brokerage.
A custom estate in Warren County led a week otherwise centered on Hamilton County, where homes in Blue Ash, Patricks Glen and Hyde Park also made the list.
A just-completed home on four acres, a waterfront ranch, a golf course home and two $1.8 million sales in Carmel and Zionsville made up the week’s top tier.
A Franklin farm came first, followed by a pair of Murfreesboro sales, new construction in Thompsons Station and a historic Belle Meade home.
Country estates, lakefront homes and a brand-new city residence made up the region’s priciest sales of the week.
Coldwell Banker Realty listed the top four, from a lakefront estate in Excelsior to a pair of Wayzata homes, while a loft in downtown Minneapolis rounded out the group.
A home in Troy led the week, Bloomfield Hills accounted for two of the five sales, and the list reached as far as Fenton and Northville.
Four single-family homes in the suburbs and one condominium overlooking the city made the list, which opened with a $5 million sale in Burr Ridge.
LTC Properties said Oct. 1 it paid nearly $160 million for three senior housing communities in Florida, Virginia and Maryland, funded by the sale of 20 triple-net-leased properties for more than $260 million, pushing its operating portfolio past 40% of net operating income.
Corcoran’s third-quarter report counts 3,625 Manhattan closings, up 9% and the most since 2022, with active listings at a nine-year third-quarter low, sponsor inventory at a 14-year low and the median price at a third-quarter record $1.250 million.
Hines said Oct. 2 that Adam Hines will become co-CEO alongside Laura Hines-Pierce on Jan. 1, 2027, David Steinbach will become the firm’s first president and Jeff Hines will step back to chairman at the $91 billion real assets manager.
AWS chief executive Matt Garman pledged more than $1 billion over five years for the counties hosting Amazon’s data centers, citing more than 100 local moratoriums under consideration across the country.
A custom brick ranch on 4.72 acres in Germantown sold for $894,000 at full asking price, the highest reported home sale in the Dayton metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A one-owner house on more than five acres in Fort Wayne sold for $879,900, leading five reported home sales across the Fort Wayne metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A five-acre property on Tantara Road in Toledo sold for $1.06 million, the highest reported home sale in the Toledo metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A 1998 lakefront house in Haslett’s Sunset Cove neighborhood sold for $1,423,500, the highest reported home sale in the Lansing metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A 2022 custom-built house in Ponca Hills Estates sold for $1.25 million, the highest reported home sale in the Omaha, Nebraska metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A custom house completed this year in Clarksville’s Danford community sold for $1,475,000, the highest reported home sale in the Clarksville metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
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