After nearly a year of exploration and discussions, the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) and the Council of MLSs (CMLS) have made the shared decision to not move forward in plans to form a new combined organization. The organizations announced the decision in a joint statement on Monday. “This decision reflects a disciplined evaluation of…
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Florida lawmakers have approved a new Live Local 4.0 package that further extends state pre-emption of local zoning and tax rules to promote affordable and workforce housing development. The bill, the third major rewrite of the 2023 Live Local Act, was passed on the final day of the 2026 regular session of the Florida Legislature….
When Compass announced its partnership with Redfin and Rocket Companies to publish its coming soon listings on Redfin’s platform many wondered how Zillow and other brokerages would respond. Well, the housing industry now has its answer. On Tuesday, Zillow announced the debut of Zillow Preview, a new offering providing agents and their sellers with the…
A joint study from mortgage technology platform Tidalwave and researchers at Columbia University found that Tidalwave’s mortgage-trained AI agent produced more accurate answers to loan underwriting questions than a general-purpose large language model. The benchmarking evaluated Tidalwave’s SOLO agent against Claude 4.5 from Anthropic on 90 questions commonly asked by loan officers during the mortgage…