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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Lake views run through much of this week’s list, from a brand-new home in Excelsior to a lakefront property in Mound and a townhouse in Wayzata.
Lakefront homes in Hickory Corners and Holland, a newly built home in East Grand Rapids and a wooded property in Grand Rapids made up the week’s top five.
A city home with a roof deck, a shingle-style estate on a pond, a 1936 Colonial Revival, a Gold Coast condominium and a brand-new Lincoln Park home made up the week’s top sales.
SL Green and Mori Trust replaced $1.768 billion of debt on the fully leased Midtown tower with a five-year, fixed-rate $2.0 billion CMBS loan led by JPMorgan.
September housing starts and NAR’s pending home sales index land Oct. 20, followed by PulteGroup’s third-quarter results and Freddie Mac’s rate survey on Oct. 22.
Fifteen cities, from Albuquerque to Providence, will get $450,000 to $750,000 each to adopt faster permitting, expanded ADUs or housing strike teams, with up to 30 cities planned.
The MBA’s new policy roadmap, released at its Chicago convention, asks agencies to lower FHA premiums, trim GSE loan-level price adjustments and widen AI-assisted underwriting — all without new legislation.
The Swedish investment firm is paying $375 million in cash, plus up to $175 million in earnouts, for the San Francisco manager, pushing EQT Real Estate beyond logistics into core funds and manufactured housing.
Gov. Tina Kotek’s Oct. 9 letter asks Oregon DEQ to stop processing air and water discharge permits for new or expanded data centers through July 1, 2027, including municipal wastewater permits sought to serve them.
Sissie Hsiao, who led development of Google’s Gemini app, joined Compass’s board effective Oct. 14, filling the seat left by lead independent director Charles Phillips, who resigned Oct. 9.
Redfin counted 928,892 buyers against 1,510,784 sellers in September, the widest gap in its records and the fourth consecutive monthly record. Forty-one of the 50 largest metros are now buyer’s markets.
A home on the water at Lake Milton tops a week that also brought two sales in New Middletown, a ranch on nearly two acres in Cortland and a colonial in Canfield.
Two sales in Oregon, two in Sylvania and one in Waterville made up the top of the market, from a home built in 2026 to one built in 1986.
A lakefront estate in Metamora led a week of sales that ran from Peoria Heights out to Goodfield, Eureka and Washington.
A remodeled home in West Pacific Hills led a week that also brought sales on the water at Lake Allure and on wooded acreage in Plattsmouth.
A midcentury design by Herb Fritz and Marshall Erdman topped a week that also brought sales of a lakefront chalet, two ranch homes on wooded acreage and a newer Prairie-style home backing onto the Ice Age Trail.
A creekside ranch in Goshen, a 2025 build on nearly two and a half acres in Smithfield and a renovated French country home in Windy Hills joined two brick Traditional homes on this week’s list.
A contemporary home in Lakeview led the week at $1,625,000, and the four sales behind it fell between $729,900 and $815,000.
From a home finished this year to one built in 1969, the week’s top sales stretched across Haslett, Dewitt, Okemos and two East Lansing neighborhoods.
Both Ada sales came with more than 10 acres of woods and rolling hills, while a lakefront mid-century modern home and a new Craftsman rounded out the week.
A one-story home on a pond in Leo topped a week of custom-built family homes, from a 1999 Colonial on more than three acres to a new home that sold above its asking price.
Lake living, a country Cape Cod on more than 10 acres and a Craftsman among open fields made up a week of sales concentrated in Linden.
Acreage outside Van Meter and Carlisle, a backyard pool in Polk City and two newly built homes in Clive and Norwalk made up the week’s top sales.
The week’s top sales ran from a stucco colonial in Dayton to a home on wooded acreage in Bellbrook, with a golf course home and a newly built home in between.
A new brick ranch, a modern farmhouse and a country property with a pool and koi pond were among the week’s top sales, which ran from $553,000 to $855,000.
Two 1935 homes on the same Rocky River boulevard, a brand-new Westlake colonial, a wooded Wadsworth property and a 1972 Pepper Pike contemporary made up the week’s top sales.
The largest U.S. homebuilder by volume has signed a multi-year agreement giving it access to Promise Robotics’ Factory-as-a-Service platform for more than 1,250 homes, the companies said Oct. 13.
Two homes on golf courses, a 1920s Colonial and a mid-century modern home beside a pond were among the week’s top sales, and one Howard Hanna agent appears twice.
Three of the week’s five top sales were in Waukesha County, and the others came from Milwaukee’s east side and Mequon.
Carmel accounted for three of the week’s top sales and Zionsville for two, in a group that runs from established golf-course communities to homes built this year.
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