Pearl Certification ups resources to match ‘energy-efficient’ priorities

The company intends to prepare agents and homeowners for the "millions of new high-performing homes improved through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)," according to an announcement.

What down market? Payrolls are just fine in the brokerage world

Home transactions may be down, but you wouldn't know it from most brokerage payrolls. Real estate hiring churned along in July, according to new data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

California dreamin’: The nightmare situations luxury agents deal with

From the seller who wanted to display a room full of snakes during a home showing to the renter who was an insurance scammer, the clients luxury agents deal with in California can be a handful.

$2B Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty broker moves team to Side

San Clemente, California's top broker, Doug Echelberger, and his team of seven agents has moved to Side, where it will operate as Inhabit Real Estate, according to an announcement on Tuesday.