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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Wooded acreage near Fremont, a renovated lakefront home on Sylvan Lake and an 1890 home in Auburn were among the week’s top sales.
A country property on 40 acres led the week, with four homes from Marshfield to Mosinee following it.
A Victorian from 1860, a log-sided ranch and a farmhouse surrounded by fields joined a contemporary prairie home on a list where three of the five sales were in Lake Mills.
A seven-bedroom lakefront home, a converted logging lodge on Lake Tippecanoe and a colonial finished this year were among the week’s top sales.
Rural acreage in Pecatonica and Roscoe and a lakefront ranch at Lake Summerset were among the five Winnebago County homes that led the week.
Three West Des Moines homes, a 2026 ranch in Urbandale and a newer ranch in Waukee made up a week led by the only two-story home in the group.
Lake frontage, country acreage and a pair of new ranch homes made up the week’s top sales in Hartford and West Bend.
Sylvania accounted for two of the five sales, including the top one, with Perrysburg, Whitehouse and Toledo also on the list.
A craftsman rambler on three acres, a home with an indoor pool, a nearly 50-acre country spread, a wooded family home and a brand-new townhouse made up the top of the market.
Four towns, five single-family homes and a narrow spread of prices, with one brokerage listing the top three.
A Mediterranean-style estate led a week of sales that ran from custom homes of the mid-2000s to one built in the 19th century.
A Floyds Knobs ranch led a week of sales that ran from a Greenville horse farm to a new home in Jeffersonville.
Four single-family homes and a condominium, spread across South Lyon, Novi, Farmington Hills and New Hudson, made up the week’s top sales.
Four-bedroom homes in Sheboygan Falls, Sheboygan and Reedsville made up the week’s top sales, at prices from $520,000 to $969,000.
A renovated mid-century home with river views led a week that also included a carriage house condominium, a one-level home in Highland Park and an accessible home near Battle Creek Regional Park.
A Pleasant Prairie contemporary, a Kenosha condominium with Lake Michigan views and a newer ranch home in Twin Lakes top a week of sales that all landed in Kenosha County.
A country property with a stocked pond and a barn led the list, joined by a golf course ranch and two homes finished this year.
A wooded estate in Thousand Oaks, a remodeled 1930s home near Grandview Drive and a golf course home in Weaverridge were among the week’s top sales.
Lake frontage, a golf course setting and nearly an acre of land figure in a week of sales that ran from Papillion and Bellevue to Greenwood and Omaha.
A remodeled West Shores lake home, a Fairacres brick home from 1952 and a barndominium on acreage in Ashland were among the week’s top sales.
Homes on two lakes, a Milford horse property with its own barn and pastures, and a Clarkston colonial overlooking a pond led the week’s sales.
Two newly built homes in Cedar Lake and a pair of Crown Point sales, one of them on a golf course, followed a Munster home at the top of the week’s list.
Two Covington condominiums with views of the Cincinnati skyline shared the week with a new Newport townhouse and single-family homes in Hebron and Walton.
Lake homes in North Oaks, Lindstrom and Chisago City share the list with a remodeled Roseville home and a White Bear Township townhome.
A just-finished home, a wooded acreage and a lot beside open wetland are among this week’s five, all two-story homes in Anoka County.
Three ranch homes, a 1970s two-story on wooded acreage and a brand-new build in Newark made up the week’s top sales, all of them in Licking County.
New construction made up three of the week’s five highest-priced sales, and the top of the list was a newly finished home in Mount Juliet.
The week’s list runs from a penthouse in a building from 1922 to a condominium built in 2007, and it also takes in three single-family homes.
Three of the five are in Medina, and every one is a two-story single-family home built between 1998 and 2014.
Lots among the week’s top sales ranged from just under an acre in Cary to more than 11 acres in Spring Grove.
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