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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Three Sioux Falls homes, a new build in Harrisburg and a country acreage in Lake County made up the week’s top five.
A home on a Granger pond, a Craftsman ranch finished this year and a rebuilt home in South Bend’s Park Place neighborhood were among the week’s top sales.
A gated lake community in Jeffersonville, open country in Nabb and historic Port Fulton figure in a week led by a $925,000 sale in Floyds Knobs.
Grand Island accounted for four of the five top sales, but the most expensive home sold in Kearney.
A log home on a working horse farm led the week, followed by two Canfield homes, a brick two-story in Ivy Hills and a century-old home in Poland.
Northwoods lake homes on Moose Lake, Lake Nancy and Lake Hayward share the list with a newly built six-bedroom home in the forest near Winter.
Every home on the list sits on more than three acres, with ponds, a lake and big outbuildings out on the land.
Holmen had two of the week’s five top sales, and Trempealeau, Onalaska and La Crosse accounted for the rest.
A wooded spread with a creek, a west-side home with a workshop bigger than the home itself, a new farmhouse, a lakeside-community ranch and a renovated midcentury modern made up the week’s top sales.
A ranch still to be built tops the list, followed by a penthouse in Little Italy, a Colonial with a saltwater pool and two condominiums with lake views.
Eau Claire had three of the five top sales, with the others in Chippewa Falls and Eau Galle.
Champaign accounted for three of the week’s five highest-priced sales, while Mahomet and Urbana added one each.
A ranch completed in 2025, a timber-frame home on almost nine wooded acres and a waterfront ranch in Canal Fulton were among the week’s top sales.
A lakefront acreage in Buffalo led a week of sales that stretched from Annandale to Big Lake and Zimmerman.
A brand-new ranch on a Fox Creek golf course led the week, followed by another new home and three established ones, the last of them set on more than five acres along Kickapoo Creek.
Lake frontage, wooded hillsides and open country land run through a week of sales spread across Brown, Monroe and Greene counties.
Two homes in Avon, a wooded spread near Plainfield, a Danville horse property and a Brownsburg ranch with a pool made up the week’s top sales.
Sales in Blacklick, Galena and Westerville ranged from $729,900 to $915,000, with one-story ranches and two-story homes sharing the list.
A brick-and-stone home in Morton’s Wolf Crossing topped the week, followed by sales in The Oaks, Deer Creek, Washington and East Peoria.
In its first quarter since the RE/MAX takeover, Real REMAX Group grew revenue to $727.9 million, cut $40 million of costs, lost Real agents in October and guided for a weaker 2027.
A modern farmhouse in Mankato led a week that also brought a century-old home on pastures and prairie, a Montgomery home from a builder’s plan and two family homes with heated workshops.
Every home in this week’s group is a single-story design, and each one went under contract within two weeks of being listed.
A country home with its own pond led the week, and three of the five sales were new homes or homes still to be built.
A newly built home on wooded land in Logan led the week, ahead of a lakefront Craftsman in Thornville and three Lancaster homes on acreage.
Shiloh claimed two of the week’s five highest-priced sales, and the list ran from a 1970s stucco home on wooded acreage to a home built in 2021.
A newly built estate on five wooded acres led a week of Anoka County sales that ran from country acreage in Ham Lake and East Bethel to new construction in Andover.
A Mid-Century Modern home on Spring Lake topped a week of sales that reached from the Pere Marquette shore to a pond in Norton Shores.
A home on a golf course fairway, a brick ranch on five acres with a pole barn and three ranch homes built within a year of each other filled out the week’s list.
Led by a sale in Franklin, the week’s five top sales were all single-family homes on substantial land in Johnson and Morgan counties.
A century-old Four Square, a wooded ranch with a pole barn and a brand-new build all made the week’s list.
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