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 gated estate in Brighton led the week, followed by homes on private lakefront and a ranch condominium finished this year.
A new home in Holliday Farms led the week, joined by a renovated Victorian on Main Street, an Epcon courtyard home and a ranch in Hidden Pines.
Water ran through most of the week’s top sales, from two Lake Redstone properties in La Valle to a log home on a Lake Arrowhead golf course and a brand-new ranch in Sauk City.
This week’s list runs from an English-style home with a backyard pool to a wooded ranch and a newly built home, and every one of them is in Will County.
A Colonial modeled on a Williamsburg landmark, a brand-new home on a pond and nearly nine acres of country land are among the week’s top sales, led by a home in The Sanctuary in Perrysburg.
Wooded lots, finished lower levels and elaborate backyards run through the week’s top sales in Palos Park and Orland Park.
A custom home on three acres in Northfield topped a week of Dakota County sales that ran from wooded acreage in Inver Grove Heights to a Lakeville two-story that sold above its asking price.
A century-old Tudor Revival, a park-view condominium and a brick Colonial facing Como Lake lead a week of older homes in some of the city’s established neighborhoods.
Country land, a classic Colonial and a home built this year were among the week’s top sales.
Acreage with a giant steel workshop, lakefront homes in Twin Lakes and Wind Lake, a downtown Kenosha condominium and a brand-new ranch in Union Grove made up the week’s top sales.
A three-year-old home with seven bedrooms and a pool topped the week, and agents from one brokerage listed all five of the top sales.
Two acreage properties with ponds and room to roam sold for more than $1 million apiece, followed by three ranch homes in golf course and lake communities.
Two Waterford homes led a week that also took in a Milford Colonial, wooded acreage in Holly and a home finished this year in Commerce Township.
Oneida and Vilas counties shared the week’s five highest-priced home sales, and two of them came in at $2 million or more.
Two brand-new homes, a pair of ranches in Union and a Covington condominium made up the week’s top sales.
Shoreline homes in three towns took the top places, and the five sales ranged from $715,000 to $1,000,000.
An updated 2006 home on more than an acre and a half topped a week otherwise dominated by homes built in the last few years, three of them in one Dayton community.
A remodeled home with a pool, a brand-new ranch, a country property with two large shops and a pair of south Lincoln homes with walkout lower levels made up the week’s top sales.
Lakefront homes in Fennville and West Olive took the top three places, ahead of country acreage in Byron Center and a wooded property in Holland.
Howard Hanna listed three of the five homes, and two of the sales were for homes still to be built.
From a corner-lot Colonial in the Pinnacle community to a wooded end-unit condominium and a Troy model home, the week’s top sales spread across four Oakland County communities.
A stone farmhouse near Lake Michigan, a contemporary home with its own beach and pier, and a newly built ranch in a gated community were among the week’s top sales.
Two homes finished in 2026 head a list that also takes in a pair of Colonials and a Cape Cod with its own walkout guest suite.
Country acreage in Winfield, two new homes in Cedar Lake and Saint John, and two large established homes in Crown Point and Munster made up the week’s top sales.
Two newly built townhouses and three colonials, from a downtown loft to a golf-course home, made up the week’s top sales.
A brick home on Lake Michigan, a ranch on more than 28 wooded acres and a farmhouse from 1860 are among the week’s top sales, with three of the five in Cedarburg.
Two large rural properties led the week, followed by three Murfreesboro homes ranging from a 1958 one-story home to a 2019 contemporary.
Two newly built homes, a pool-and-barn ranch with a Versailles address and a brick ranch on nearly 200 acres in Paris follow a $1.6 million sale in Lexington’s Sahalee neighborhood.
A private Lake Erie beach, a condominium rebuilt from the studs, a bayside home on a gated island, a Colonial with pasture views and a recently built home in a gated community made up the list.
A newly built condominium in a golf community, two Delavan homes with lake access, a wooded Colonial in Burlington and a home across from Lake Como made up the week’s top sales.
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