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9 warning signs your real estate business is quietly slipping off track

Real estate businesses rarely crash overnight. More often than not, it’s a slow drift. Production slows. Conversations thin out. Follow-up gets pushed to tomorrow. Nothing feels urgent — until suddenly it is. That’s the danger. When things slide gradually, real estate agents don’t panic. They normalize it. They blame the market. They wait for motivation…

Rithm Capital expands partnership with Valon to deploy operating system

Rithm Capital Corp., the parent company of multichannel mortgage lender Newrez, said Monday that it’s deepening its partnership with Valon Technologies, a mortgage servicing technology firm, as one of its subsidiaries prepares to deploy Valon’s operating system across millions of loans. Rithm, an early investor in Valon, will use Valon’s AI-native mortgage servicing platform, ValonOS,…

Flat turnover, high stakes: What real estate agent movement data reveals about brokerage risk

Real estate agent movement may dominate industry chatter, but the data tells a different story. Agent turnover remained relatively stable in 2025, according to a report published Monday by Recruiting Insight in conjunction with contributors Lone Wolf Technologies and MyBFFSocial.  The report found that the annual agent turnover recorded for 2025 was 6.8%, up slightly…

High energy performance lowers mortgage costs for buyers

When President Donald Trump floated the idea of a 50-year mortgage last November, it ignited a debate over housing affordability. One analysis showed that a borrower with a $500,000 loan could save $165 per month, but they would pay more than twice as much interest with a 50-year mortgage compared with the 30-year option. What…