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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Starwood Property Trust and Realterm co-originated a $672 million loan against a 78-property, 830-acre industrial outdoor storage portfolio owned by Stonemont Financial Group and Cerberus Capital Management — the largest financing yet in the fast-growing IOS niche.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Aug. 5 released its first nationwide analysis of homeowners insurance market trends, and the numbers confirm what agents and buyers in wildfire- and storm-prone states have been reporting for years: coverage is getting more expensive and harder to keep, at a pace that is now reshaping the cost … Read more
RE/MAX Holdings CEO Erik Carlson plans to step down from the top job once The Real Brokerage’s acquisition of RE/MAX closes, with Real Chief Operating Officer Jenna Rozenblat set to become president of the combined Real REMAX Group, the companies indicated this week as the all-stock merger heads toward completion. The leadership plan comes days … Read more
Newly released minutes of the Fed’s July meeting show a committee divided over raising rates, with officials noting home-purchase mortgage activity ‘remained depressed.’
Cash buyers made up just 3.5% of new-home purchases in the second quarter, the smallest share since the 2007 housing bust, as FHA-backed sales hit a five-year high, NAHB finds.
SoftBank is investing $200 million in Gravis Robotics, valuing the excavator-autonomy startup at $1 billion in the largest Series A on record for construction robotics.
California home sales fell 6% in July as the statewide median price dropped below $900,000 for the first time in four months, with Southern California and San Francisco Bay Area prices moving in opposite directions, C.A.R. reports.
A Laguna Beach house on Montage Way sold for $29 million to lead the Los Angeles metro area’s top five home sales for the week ending August 16, 2026.
Goodwill Estate, a 736-acre property in Eastover, sold for $13.8 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Columbia, South Carolina metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A custom house completed this year in Stuart’s High Point neighborhood sold for $2.2 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Port St. Lucie, Florida metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A four-bedroom house in the Watersound community of Inlet Beach sold for $6,200,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Crestview, Florida metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026, with three more closings in the Watercolor community of Santa Rosa Beach.
A custom home built in 2024 on five acres in the Sango area sold for $1,300,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Clarksville, Tennessee metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A lakefront home in Terry Shores sold for $1.80 million to lead the top five home sales reported in the Fort Collins metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A roughly 50-acre Dunnellon horse farm at $1.58 million led the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Ocala, Florida metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A Casco Bay waterfront house in Yarmouth sold for $2.81 million, heading the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Portland, Maine metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A custom-built house in Lancaster’s Brooklawn neighborhood sold for $1,010,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A Crane Meadow home in Grand Ledge sold for $800,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Lansing metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
Five home sales reported in the York, Pennsylvania metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026 combined for $3.38 million, led by a six-bedroom house on Wetherburn Drive in York at $821,750.
The 2020 Southern Living Idea Home in Asheville’s Ramble Biltmore Forest sold for $3.04 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Asheville metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A 2024 house backing the community park in Perrysburg’s Villages at Canterbury sold for $949,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Toledo, Ohio metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A 1999 French Country house overlooking the Susquehanna River in Lemoyne sold for $1,550,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A renovated 1915 house on Aurora Street in Hudson sold for $1,207,180 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Akron, Ohio metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A 2022 Craftsman-inspired ranch on Chillingham Way in Baldwinsville sold for $750,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Syracuse, New York metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A 30-acre training farm in Aiken’s horse country sold for $1,425,000, leading the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Augusta, Georgia metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026. Four of the week’s closings were in Aiken, South Carolina and one in Evans, Georgia.
A gated 2004 estate on nearly five acres in The Hills of Rosemont sold for $3,500,000 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Durham, North Carolina metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
Five home sales in the Minneapolis, Minnesota metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026 combined for $12.10 million, led by a $2,993,400 Deephaven closing.
A house completed in 2025 in Johnston sold for $1,518,384 to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Des Moines, Iowa metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A 102-acre property with frontage on Massies Creek in Xenia sold for $2.05 million to lead the top five reported home sales in the Dayton, Ohio metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A 1988 stone house on more than three acres in Loudonville sold for $2.90 million to lead the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Albany, New York metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
A Lakeland house with a climate-controlled indoor pickleball court sold for $2.25 million, leading the five highest-priced home sales reported in the Lakeland, Florida metro area for the week ending August 16, 2026.
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