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Editor’s note: AI Pulse is RISMedia’s ongoing roundup of AI happenings, providing trends and real-world use cases to help navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape.  Startup asks homebuyers to host mini data centers in their backyards One of the largest current barriers to expanding the capabilities (or at least size) of frontier AI models is…

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Bed Bath and Beyond is building an end-to-end homeownership platform by acquiring Fathom Holdings. Coach Darryl Davis asks, "What does a retailer owning a brokerage mean for the future of real estate?"

Nonprofit research organization The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index (LEI) for the U.S.—which provides an early indication of significant turning points in the business cycle and where the economy is heading—increased slightly by 0.1% in May to 99.3, following a 0.2% increase in April, with plenty of uncertainty still around the future. After these two…

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Realty Connect USA Joins Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate  RISMedia

Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) released its State of the Nation’s Housing Report 2026 on June 17 and revealed a market where activity remains restrained, demand is weakening and high costs are sidelining many would-be buyers and renters, even as new construction slowly chips away at supply shortfalls.  In a livestreamed event the…

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Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC has announced a landmark merger between three leading brokerages across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania that brings together Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Maturo and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Dream Properties with Realty Connect USA.  With this announcement, the combined company will do business…

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BHGRE Maturo, BHGRE Dream Properties and Realty Connect USA have merged to create BHGRE Realty Connect. The brokerage serves New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Sotheby's 2026 Mid-Year Luxury Outlook finds that 38 percent of agents in the $10 million-plus segment say aging in place is reshaping buyer behavior — and the ripple effects reach well below the ultra-luxury tier.

The maps are from the 1930s. The consequences are not. Braden Crooks of Designing the WE brought the "Undesign the Redline" exhibit to the NAR expo in Washington to show how Depression-era federal housing policy drew the lines that still define today's market — from the affordability crisis to appraisal bias to the racial wealth gap.

How UK activists exposed Israeli settlement sales in London  The New Arab

Pentagon chief lashes out at NATO allies and announces a review of US forces in Europe  The Boston Globe

Term Sheet: PERE Credit 100’s breakfast briefing; Qualitas’s European expansion; Warsh’s Fed debut  PERE Credit

Limehome opens prime London location steps from St. Paul's Cathedral  Hospitality Net

This surprising London suburb is becoming the UK’s £1,000,000,000 answer to Hollywood  Metro.co.uk

The Coldwell Banker CEO talks Zillow, MLS expansions and Coldwell Banker under Compass International Holdings.

Don't beat yourself up over a stale listing. Coach Darryl Davis shares strategies to help you go back to the drawing board and look at the factors that are still within your control.

Tom Panos speaks at inaugural Real Estate Agency Summit in Waterford  The Avondhu

Wing Tai Properties Selling London Office Block for $41M and More APAC Real Estate Headlines  Mingtiandi

London Israel real estate fair apologizes over West Bank listings  The Jerusalem Post

Qualitas’s expansion highlights Europe’s growing real estate credit appeal  PERE Credit