National Mortgage Bankers Promotes Yasser Valdes Herrera to President of Americasa Mortgage Platform

by Phil Hall | Apr 13, 2026 | Mortgage Information, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

Nationwide Mortgage Bankers (NMB) has promoted Yasser Valdes Herrera to president of Americasa, the company’s Spanish-language mortgage platform. Herrera first joined the company in 2022 as a loan officer before being promoted to producing sales manager. He served as...

Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of April 6-10

by Phil Hall | Apr 10, 2026 | Commercial Real Estate News, Current News & Events, Hits and Misses, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

Home sellers aggressively cutting their listings prices, a stalemate for Kansas property tax relief, and a hurricane-damaged stadium reopens for the new baseball season. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of April...

NAR in $52.25 Million Settlement of Tuccori Commissions Lawsuit

by Phil Hall | Apr 10, 2026 | Current News & Events, Industry Updates, Real Estate News, WRE News Exclusive

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced it has reached a settlement resolving claims brought by homebuyers in the class-action antitrust lawsuit Tuccori v. At World Properties related to buyer-agent commissions. Under the terms of the settlement, which is...

First-Time Homebuyers Accounted for 21% of the Texas Housing Market

by Phil Hall | Apr 10, 2026 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

First-time homebuyers accounted for 21% of all residential property purchases in Texas during 2025, according to data from Texas Realtors. This is slightly above the all-time low of 20% recorded in 2024. Last year’s homebuyers in Texas had a median age of 58, tied...

Mid-Atlantic Region Records Spike in Listings

by Phil Hall | Apr 10, 2026 | Current News & Events, Real Estate News, U.S. Housing Market, WRE News Exclusive

A total of 24,812 new listings came onto the Mid-Atlantic market served by Bright MLS in March, a 0.6% year-over-year spike and the strongest March new listing total since 2022. Active listings totaled 39,495, a 9.4% surge from the 36,110 recorded one year earlier....