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 remodeled home on acreage led the week, ahead of a Bellshire home with a pool and workshop and three newly built homes.
A ranch on the water led the week, followed by homes with pools on large lots in Aurora and Richfield and colonials in Akron and Hudson.
Realtor.com projects baby boomers and the Silent Generation will release 13.9 million owner-occupied homes between 2026 and 2036, a 74% jump over the prior decade. Only about 380,000 are starter homes, and the firm says the handoff will not move entry-level affordability.
Fathom Holdings and Neighborhood Intelligence, the company formerly known as Bed Bath & Beyond, terminated their merger agreement on Oct. 5, saying current valuations would not reflect the fair value of either company. NXH will also keep the tZERO stake it had proposed to swap for control of the brokerage.
A custom estate in Warren County led a week otherwise centered on Hamilton County, where homes in Blue Ash, Patricks Glen and Hyde Park also made the list.
A just-completed home on four acres, a waterfront ranch, a golf course home and two $1.8 million sales in Carmel and Zionsville made up the week’s top tier.
A Franklin farm came first, followed by a pair of Murfreesboro sales, new construction in Thompsons Station and a historic Belle Meade home.
Country estates, lakefront homes and a brand-new city residence made up the region’s priciest sales of the week.
Coldwell Banker Realty listed the top four, from a lakefront estate in Excelsior to a pair of Wayzata homes, while a loft in downtown Minneapolis rounded out the group.
A home in Troy led the week, Bloomfield Hills accounted for two of the five sales, and the list reached as far as Fenton and Northville.
Four single-family homes in the suburbs and one condominium overlooking the city made the list, which opened with a $5 million sale in Burr Ridge.
LTC Properties said Oct. 1 it paid nearly $160 million for three senior housing communities in Florida, Virginia and Maryland, funded by the sale of 20 triple-net-leased properties for more than $260 million, pushing its operating portfolio past 40% of net operating income.
Corcoran’s third-quarter report counts 3,625 Manhattan closings, up 9% and the most since 2022, with active listings at a nine-year third-quarter low, sponsor inventory at a 14-year low and the median price at a third-quarter record $1.250 million.
Hines said Oct. 2 that Adam Hines will become co-CEO alongside Laura Hines-Pierce on Jan. 1, 2027, David Steinbach will become the firm’s first president and Jeff Hines will step back to chairman at the $91 billion real assets manager.
AWS chief executive Matt Garman pledged more than $1 billion over five years for the counties hosting Amazon’s data centers, citing more than 100 local moratoriums under consideration across the country.
A custom brick ranch on 4.72 acres in Germantown sold for $894,000 at full asking price, the highest reported home sale in the Dayton metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A one-owner house on more than five acres in Fort Wayne sold for $879,900, leading five reported home sales across the Fort Wayne metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A five-acre property on Tantara Road in Toledo sold for $1.06 million, the highest reported home sale in the Toledo metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A 1998 lakefront house in Haslett’s Sunset Cove neighborhood sold for $1,423,500, the highest reported home sale in the Lansing metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A 2022 custom-built house in Ponca Hills Estates sold for $1.25 million, the highest reported home sale in the Omaha, Nebraska metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A custom house completed this year in Clarksville’s Danford community sold for $1,475,000, the highest reported home sale in the Clarksville metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
Construction managers and building inspectors are the only two of 47 construction occupations BLS rates as high-exposure to AI. The other 45 rate low or moderate.
A custom-built estate in the Brighton community of Boston Heights sold for $2.17 million, the highest reported home sale in the Akron metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A five-bedroom house on the fairways at Keene Manor sold for $2.80 million, the highest reported home sale in the Lexington metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A Pheasant Point home in Verona sold for $1.10 million, the highest reported home sale in the Madison metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
Five reported home sales of $1,000,000 and above closed across the Cincinnati metro area during the week ending September 27, 2026, led by a newly built house in Arabella at Summit Park.
An English cottage-style house with frontage on McFarland Creek led the five highest reported home sales in the Cleveland metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A house in Prospect’s Hunting Creek Estates sold for $2,500,000, topping the Louisville metro area’s highest reported home sales for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A 2005 house on more than six private acres in Waukesha sold for $4,495,000, the highest of five reported home sales in the Milwaukee metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A newly built house in Westfield’s Chatham Hills sold for $1.80 million, the highest-priced of five home sales reported across the Indianapolis metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
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