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Opendoor’s new product pays agents twice. Here’s how it works

May 19th, 2026 by Nick Pipitone

Opendoor launches Cash Now, More Later nationally with RealScout as its launch partner, giving agents two commissions on a single seller.

Category: Agent, Buyers Tools, homebuying, homeselling, Lead Generation, News Brief, Select, Technology, agent commission, agent commissions, agent tools, Agent Workflow, Andrew Flachner, Cash Now, Cash Now, More Later, cash offer, collaborative home search, commission, home search platform, ibuyer, inman, Kaz Nejatian, lead nurture, listing agent, More Later, opendoor, Opendoor 2.0, PropTech, real estate agent tools, real estate tech, realscout, Redfin

May
19

World Cup Fever Brings More Soccer Pitches to N.Y.C.

May 19th, 2026 by Alyson Krueger and Graham Dickie

Image Caption: From mini fields in public schools to an 80-acre facility in New Jersey, the region is getting more playing spaces ahead of the World Cup.

Companies, government organizations, nonprofits and schools work to make pitches available to play.

Category: Soccer, World Cup (Soccer), World Cup 2026 (Soccer), KidSuper Studios LLC, Dillane, Colm, New York City Football Club (Soccer Team), Randalls Island (Manhattan, NY), New York Red Bulls (Soccer Team), Airbnb

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19

Homebuilder confidence ticks up, but the incentives tell the real story

May 19th, 2026 by Nick Pipitone

Builder confidence rose in May, but 14 straight months of sales incentives signal that affordability pressure has shifted from buyers to builders' bottom lines.

Category: Industry News, Markets & Economy, Select, affordability challenges, Bill Owens, builder concessions, builder incentives, homebuilder confidence, homebuilders, housing affordability, Housing Market INdex, housing supply, Maor Greenberg, midwest, mortgage rates, nahb, NAHB/Wells Fargo, nahb/wells fargo housing market index, national association of home builders, northeast, ohio, Robert Dietz, sales incentives, single-family homes, south, Spacial, wells fargo, west, Worthington, Ohio

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19

Who will become real estate’s power brokers? A timeline of brokerage consolidation

May 19th, 2026 by AJ LaTrace

A wave of mergers and acquisitions has reshaped residential brokerage since the NAR settlement. Here’s how the industry is consolidating.

Category: Brokerage, Mortgage, Select, @properties, agent recruitment, Anywhere, Anywhere Real Estate, aperture, baird & warner, better homes and gardens real estate, brokerage consolidation, california, century 21, chicago, cloud brokerage, coldwell banker, Commission Pressure, compass, corcoran, dream town, east coast, era, eXp Realty, franchise model, gino blefari, howard hanna, inventory, keller williams, Leo Pareja, LPT Realty, luxury real estate, Lyon Real Estate, midwest, Mortgage Integration, Multi-Brand Brokerage, national association of realtors, new york, nexthome, Pre-Marketing Strategy, private listings, re/max, real brokerage, real estate brokerage consolidation, real estate search, Redfin, residential brokerage, robert palmer, rocket, rocket companies, sacramento, Sotheby's International Realty, Stone Point Capital, Superregional Platform, washington, Windermere Real Estate, Windermere Signature Properties

May
19

Brokers have stopped waiting for the MLS industry to catch up

May 19th, 2026 by Amit Kulkarni

Voluntary consolidation requires MLS executives to vote their organizations out of existence in favor of a larger entity they probably won't run, Amit Kulkarni writes.

Category: Brokerage, Columns, MLS & Associations, Opinion, Select, Service, AI Infrastructure, Alloy Advisors, amit kulkarni, artificial intelligence, BLX, bright mls, Broker Listing Exchange, brokerage consolidation, compass, Cotality, data licensing, data monetization, Homes for Heroes, HomeServices of America, Industry Infrastructure, keller williams, listing distribution, Listing Entry Control, MLS, mls consolidation, mls innovation, Multiple Listing Service, NAR, national association of realtors, Ocusell, real estate, real-estate-brokerage, Redfin, Regulatory Utility, reso, Upstream, Zillow

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Janet's Blog

Opendoor’s new product pays agents twice. Here’s how it works

World Cup Fever Brings More Soccer Pitches to N.Y.C.

Homebuilder confidence ticks up, but the incentives tell the real story

Who will become real estate’s power brokers? A timeline of brokerage consolidation

Brokers have stopped waiting for the MLS industry to catch up

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