
FirstTeam expands in Midwest with new Kansas City office
FirstTeam has expanded its national brokerage footprint into Kansas and Missouri, partnering with broker-owner Scott Eckhoff and Rival Real Estate to open the company’s first Midwest office in Kansas City, the company announced Tuesday. The move marks the next phase of FirstTeam’s national expansion

Epique Realty CEO Josh Miller offers 3-point fix for agent tech adoption
Josh Miller, CEO and co-founder of Epique Realty, told attendees at Tuesday’s HousingWire AI Summit that the real estate industry’s most expensive technology investments are often the least used. He offered a three-part prescription to solve the problem. Brokerages spend thousands of dollars on tool

‘Sounds like competition to me’: Sizing up Google’s real estate play at the AI Summit
The traditional path to homeownership — from portal search to real estate agent to loan officer — is being rapidly rewired by artificial intelligence (AI), and the industry’s biggest players want to be first through the new front door. That was the central theme of a packed session Tuesday at Housin

Compass transaction fee lawsuit faces voluntary dismissal
The homebuyers at the center of the $475 transaction fee lawsuit filed against Compass have filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss their case. The Efron suit, which was filed by Jeff and Melissa Efron in late June in Palm Beach County Court, accused Compass of “unfair and deceptive business practices
