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 former builder’s model, two new-construction homes and an orchard property on two acres made up the week’s top sales across Hennepin County.
A renovated home on the Wilderness Ridge golf course led a week that ranged from acreage in Kensington Estates and Four Stone to two newly built homes.
A six-bedroom home with beach and pond views in Spring Lake led a week in which Okemos claimed three of the five top sales and one brokerage listed four of them.
A ranch on wooded acreage in Kirtland Hills led a week in which every top sale was a single-family home in Lake County.
A home with its own dock on the water, an island village property and a center-hall home from the late 1960s are among five single-family sales spread across two counties.
Two homes on seven acres or more, a timber-framed home with a barn south of Lafayette and two West Lafayette neighborhood homes made up the week’s top sales.
Wooded acreage, a pond-view retreat and a 19th-century farm led a week of sales that ranged from $450,000 to $799,900.
Two homes in North Liberty, two in Iowa City and one in Solon made up the week’s five most expensive sales, from a resort-style 2021 custom home to a pond-side home in Windmill Estates.
A lakefront home with room for extended family, a combined top-floor condominium in a 1924 downtown club building and a century-old home on Central Avenue were among the week’s most expensive sales.
Two lakefront homes, an equestrian property near Grandville and a newly built condominium in Jenison were among the week’s top sales.
A lakefront home in Birchwood led the week, ahead of four sales spread across lakeshore and country acreage in three counties.
Barns, ponds and pastures in the countryside share the list with two Greenwood neighborhood homes built around their backyard pools.
A just-built ranch led the week, followed by a horse property on more than 21 acres, a brand-new two-story home and a pair of established Greenfield properties.
Two homes on the bay, two newly built ranches and a wooded spread of more than 24 acres made up the week’s top sales.
A brick home on the water, a Maple Hills colonial with a pool and three country properties on acreage made up the week’s top five.
A newly built ranch led a week that also took in a wooded rural property in Wells County, two homes with finished lower levels and recreation space, and a single-level condominium.
Two homes tied at the top of the week, in a group with country acreage, horse barns and backyard pools.
Lake and pond frontage, open acreage and pools run through a week of sales that stretched from Granger to Middlebury.
A postwar Colonial, a golf-course condominium and a 1920s home on one of Detroit’s historic boulevards were among the week’s most expensive closings.
Homes on country acreage and custom-built homes in planned neighborhoods shared the top of the market this week, from New Carlisle and Tipp City to Troy and Dayton.
A Mindoro hobby farm with barns, pasture and a creek led the week, ahead of a Warrens ranch on nearly 28 acres.
Four single-family homes and a condominium townhome made up the week’s top sales, with prices running from $490,000 to $575,000.
A rural A-frame on wooded acreage outsold four Clarksville homes, two of them brand new, in a week when every sale fell within Montgomery County.
New construction, a Colonial from the 1930s and two century-old Hyde Park homes filled out a week led by a modern home in Mt. Adams.
Two lakefront homes led the week, followed by a pair of newer homes in Eau Claire and a chalet on 20 wooded acres in Elk Mound.
Two homes on several acres with big outbuildings, a remodeled family home in Albertville and a brand-new one-level home in Elk River round out a top five led by a 10-acre property with a pool.
A custom home in Copperleaf led a week of large Livingston County properties that ran from a fairway ranch to a country spread with two ponds.
All five homes sold for between $500,000 and $599,000, and four of them are in Avon.
Three Hudson homes, a horse property in Mantua and a former Parade of Homes model in Uniontown made up the week’s top sales.
A 10-building campus on Kraft family land south of Worcester would open in phases from 2029 and could nearly match the town’s tax levy, but no application has been filed.
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