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The San Francisco housing market is unhinged. Now it’s also a game

May 5th, 2026 by Nick Pipitone

TurboHome is betting that the best way to teach people about San Francisco’s brutal housing market is to make them guess their way through it. The AI-powered homebuying startup is set to launch TurboHome Markets, a free daily prediction game that asks users to forecast the final sale prices of five active San Francisco listings […]

Category: AI, News Brief, Predictive Analytics, Select, Technology, AI in proptech, AI in real estate, AI-powered homebuying, Ben Bear, california, commission settlement, discount brokerages, for yahoo, gamification, homebuying, Homebuying platform, NAR, NAR settlement, national association of realtors, new product launch, Prediction markets, Pricing dynamics, ryan lundquist, Sacramento Appraisal, san francisco, san francisco real estate, Santa Clara, startup news, texas, TurboHome, TurboHome Markets

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Alexia Umansky on life after ‘Buying Beverly Hills’

May 5th, 2026 by Dani Vanderboegh

Alexia Umansky spills the tea on what’s happened since "Buying Beverly Hills," the best advice her dad’s given her and what happens to The Agency post-divorce.

Category: Agent, Lifestyle, Luxury, Luxury Lens, Select, Teams, Alexia Umansky, Ben Belack, beverly hills, Brentwood, Brentwood office, brokerage \, Buying Beverly Hills, dallas, farrah brittany, for yahoo, hilton and hyland, Jon Grauman, Kathy Hilton, Kyle Richards, los angeles, Mauricio Umansky, Melissa Platt, Napa Valley, netflix, Office makeover, Ojai, real estate, real estate license, real estate marketing, real-estate-brokerage, residential real estate, Rick Hilton, Ryan Serhant, Santiago Arana, Serhant., Social Media Influencer, soho house, starbucks, the agency, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Tony Robbins, Topanga Canyon

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Agent and loan officer sentenced in $17M Ponzi scheme

May 5th, 2026 by Christy Murdock

Robert Christensen and Anthony Matic spent investor money on casino trips, a whiskey club, massages and cryotherapy.

Category: Agent, Investing, Lifestyle, Select, Anthony Matic, loan officer, loan originator, money laundering, oregon, Ponzi scheme, portland, real estate agent, real estate crime, real estate fraud, real estate investment, real estate investment fraud, real estate investors, realtor.com, residential real estate, Robert Christensen, U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Oregon, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, wire fraud

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Experts say MLS competition, consolidation to heat up after nationwide expansion

May 5th, 2026 by Taylor Anderson

Industry experts say the wave of MLS consolidation is poised to continue, competition to heat up after two major MLSs expanded beyond their regions.

Category: Agent, Brokerage, MLS & Associations, Select, 3-Phased Marketing Strategy, beachesmls, chicago, chicagoland, coming soon, compass, Compass Private Exclusive, eric stegemann, FirstMLS, georgia, Joe Rath, miami, miami mls, Mike Conway, MLS, mls consolidation, mred, Multiple Listing Service, Multiple listing service consolidation, nashville, navica, navica mls, Private Listing Network, realtracs, Redfin, robert reffkin, rocket, russ cofano, savannah, solid earth, systems engineering inc, T3 Sixty, united real estate, Zillow

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Consolidation is about speed, not size, as the fast eat the slow

May 5th, 2026 by Zac Kennedy

Zac Kennedy describes what Rocket, Redfin, Real and REMAX are actually building — and why your current business model can't ignore it.

Category: Agent, Brokerage, Columns, Opinion, Portals, Select, Service, Agent loyalty, Birmingham–Hoover, Alabama, brokerage \, client retention, Compass-Rocket deal, Data engine, inman, Knowledge transfer, M&A, mergers, mergers and acquisitions, Operational speed, re/max, Real brokerage deal, Real brokerage merger, real estate ecosystem, Real REMAX deal, realtysouth, Redfin, Redfin Corporation, REMAX deal, REMAX merger, Revenue-share culture, rocket, rocket companies, Rocket deal, technology platforms, The real brokerage, Zac Kennedy

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Realtor Wisdom

The San Francisco housing market is unhinged. Now it’s also a game

Alexia Umansky on life after ‘Buying Beverly Hills’

Agent and loan officer sentenced in $17M Ponzi scheme

Experts say MLS competition, consolidation to heat up after nationwide expansion

Consolidation is about speed, not size, as the fast eat the slow

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