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The Download is a weekly review of one essential story from the week's Top 5, along with articles designed to provide the perspective and context you need.

How AI is poised to transform luxury real estate

As AI generative applications like ChatGPT become integrated with operations and systems across real estate firms, these tools will help scale bespoke services to clients and prospects in a way that will empower brokers to offer value in an ongoing way versus just helping in the transaction.

UWM says it’s hiring as Bloomberg details alleged ‘locker room culture’

The nation's biggest mortgage lender is planning to hire 500 people and is holding a job fair Saturday just days after a Bloomberg News expose of alleged drug use, discrimination and harassment.

Office vacancy rises above Great Recession levels to record high

Nationwide vacancy in office buildings is at 12.9 percent. Availability of space is at 16.4 percent. Both are record highs, according to a new report from CoStar.