The years-long decline that drove REMAX into the hands of Real

How a frozen housing market, an outdated fee model and a new generation of tech-forward brokerages combined to push REMAX into a sale.

This REMAX merger isn’t a masterstroke. It’s a strategic escape hatch

The merger between REMAX and Real solves certain problems elegantly, while introducing a new set that will be much harder to unwind, Michael Valdes writes.

What HUD just changed about fair housing talk, and what it didn’t

Compliant communication requires awareness and a commitment to doing the work in a way that does not unintentionally recreate the barriers, Julia Lashay Israel writes.

Compass focus on productive agents helped it outpace the market, earnings show

Its brokerage gross transaction volume grew 7.3 percent in the quarter compared with a 1.5 percent increase in market volumes.