CFPB Fair Lending Rule Change: What Mortgage Borrowers Should Know
The CFPB eliminated disparate impact under ECOA, effective July 21, 2026. What changed, what protections remain, and where to report discrimination.
Compass agent with no coding experience builds local real estate hub using AI
A real estate agent with no technical background spent 11 months using artificial intelligence (AI) to build a hyperlocal educational website — aiming to replace what she calls a fragmented online landscape for buyers and sellers. Irina Norrell, who leads Compass’s Irina Norrell Team in the Washingt
CMLS, this one is for you: Build the alliance now or watch Compass build it instead
In the next four months, CMLS leadership has the opportunity to convene the MLS-controlled national alliance the industry needs. The 2026 Board of Directors is in place under Chair Nicole Jensen of realMLS and Vice Chair Justin Haag of Northwest MLS, taking the helm at what WAV Group described as on
2026 GameChanger: REMAX Select credits collaboration for transaction side growth
Despite business practice changes, a housing market slow, stubbornly high mortgage rates and continued housing affordability challenges, REMAX Select and REMAX Select Partners grew transaction sides by 67% between 2021 and 2025. This growth, which included 7,005 transaction sides in 2025 alone, earn