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 $1,120,000 sale in Wormleysburg’s Pennsboro Manor was the highest of five reported home sales in the Harrisburg metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A Fort Meade ranch with a stocked bass pond and its own lakefront building site led the Lakeland metro area’s five reported home sales for the week ending September 20, 2026, at $3.90 million.
A 1910 house on the Conesus Lake waterfront sold for $1.30 million, the highest reported home sale in the Rochester metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A 7.56-acre Windsor property sold for $950,000, first among the five highest reported home sales in the York, Pennsylvania metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
Deloitte’s survey of 950 commercial real estate executives puts business sentiment at 57.8 out of 100, a second straight annual decline, even as revenue expectations sit just below their 2025 record. Cost of capital ranked as the top concern.
A 30-acre horse farm in Wagener, South Carolina led the Augusta metro area’s five highest reported home sales for the week ending September 20, 2026.
Three Hudson closings took the top three places on the Akron, Ohio metro area Top 5 home sales list for the week ending September 20, 2026, led by a $1.70 million sale.
A house completed this year in Ankeny sold for $1,498,870, the highest reported home sale in the Des Moines, Iowa metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
Stove Prairie Ranch, roughly 155 acres in the Bellvue foothills, led the Fort Collins metro area’s five reported home sales for the week ending September 20 at $5.87 million.
A two-story oceanfront penthouse at Hutchinson Island Club in Jensen Beach sold for $1.50 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Port St. Lucie metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
PLACE has closed its acquisition of Maxwell, whose point-of-sale software and outsourced fulfillment services help facilitate more than $130 billion in mortgage transactions a year, moving the real estate platform onto the financing side of the deals its agents already work.
New single-family home sales ran at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 684,000 in August, the fastest pace of 2026, while the average sale price fell 8.8% from a year earlier and builders trimmed their stock of finished, unsold houses.
A 2021 custom home in the Destin community in Apex sold for $1,790,000, first among the Durham, North Carolina metro area’s five highest reported home sales for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A 1907 house on Harraseeket Road in Freeport sold for $2.65 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Portland, Maine metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A four-story Gulf-front house in Santa Rosa Beach sold for $19 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Crestview, Florida metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
Five reported home sales across the Asheville metro area totaled $10.19 million in the week ending September 20, 2026, led by a $3.10 million golf-course closing in Arden.
The bills require data centers of 10 megawatts or more to report power use to the California Energy Commission, direct the CPUC to write new large-load tariffs by 2028, and strip categorical CEQA exemptions in exchange for a conditional fast lane.
A 2021 Clyde Hill estate sold for $9 million, first among the Seattle metro area’s highest-priced reported home sales for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A gated ocean-bluff estate on Malibu’s Point Dume sold for $28.07 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Los Angeles metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
The New York company said Sept. 22 it acquired Zuma, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed maker of AI agents that apartment operators use to capture leads, book tours and collect rent, as Venn approaches one million units under management.
A Society Hill condominium at The Dilworth House sold for $4.25 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Philadelphia metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A Spanish Revival estate in Scottsdale’s Desert Highlands sold for $8.30 million, the highest of five reported Phoenix-area home sales for the week ending September 20, 2026.
Northmarq acquired Richmond, Virginia-based Thirdline Capital Management and its registered closed-end fund, TREIX, giving the commercial real estate firm a vehicle it can sell to individual investors through wealth-management platforms. Terms were not disclosed.
Texas new-home sales dropped to 5,658 in August and pending sales fell 10.7% from a year earlier, HomesUSA.com reported Sept. 21, while days on market improved for a fourth straight month and average prices held near $424,000.
A $6.80 million sale on Bracketts Point Road in Wayzata led the five home sales reported in the Minneapolis metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A Castle Pines Village house overlooking the 12th hole of Castle Pines Golf Club sold for $7.40 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Denver metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
An estate on Monahan Road in Zionsville’s Clifden Pond neighborhood sold for $2.60 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Indianapolis metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
A shingle-style house off Newport’s Ocean Drive sold for $7.10 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Providence, Rhode Island metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
Four of the Albany metro area’s five highest reported home sales for the week ending September 20 closed in Saratoga Springs, led by a $2.33 million house on Jefferson Street.
A 1927 estate on Lititz Pike sold for $1.59 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania metro area for the week ending September 20, 2026.
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