Forget Avocado Toast: Gen Z Is Taking on a New Kind of Debt—and It Could Lock Them Out of Homeownership

It starts innocently enough… You put the concert tickets on your credit card, your friend books the Airbnb, and someone else covers dinner.  Everyone promises to settle up later. Except “later” turns into next payday. Then next month. Before long, not only are you floating your friends, you’re carry

How Compass used technology to chart its course to the top

In 2017, Kyle Talbott and his wife Karen Talbott, who make up the Corcoran-brokered Talbott Team, were considering a move to Compass, after talk about the then 5-year-old brokerage’s technology had caught their attention. “We had a preview of the system that Compass started putting together back the

Top 5 States for Foreign Homebuyers—Where Nearly 50% Are Paying Cash for Homes

Foreign buyers are pulling back from the U.S. housing market, with spending near a record low, but some states are still seeing booming interest. International buyers spent $45.3 billion from April 2025 to March 2026, closing on 67,100 existing homes nationwide, according to the National Association

Fed hawks are on the war path, sending mortgage rates higher

Today the 10-year yield hit a yearly high of 4.74% and mortgage rates rose six basis points to 6.83% (as of this writing), as all the Federal Reserve hawks came out to play, and they were not taking a page from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s playbook. They want their voices heard loud and clear — and they