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Heather Hook
03 Mar 2026

A bill recently introduced in the Colorado state legislature sought to give taxing authorities and local districts the power to hold elections on vacancy taxes. This bill does not impose a vacancy tax directly. The concept has been floated, the conversation has started, and property owners and real estate professionals across Colorado would do well ...

Heather Hook
27 Feb 2026

When families face the challenging decision of finding memory care for a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, the search often feels overwhelming. Cost concerns, quality of care, and the emotional weight of transition can make an already difficult situation even more stressful. Douglas Halperin, Principal at Elevated Estates, offers insights that are reshaping ...

Heather Hook
27 Feb 2026

In a recent Beyond the Build podcast conversation, Jennifer Conoley reveals how Florida’s Great Northwest leverages military talent pipelines and strategic collaboration to attract aerospace and maritime investments When Jennifer Conoley became President and CEO of Florida’s Great Northwest in March 2020, she took on an unusual challenge: coordinating economic development across 13 counties stretching ...

Heather Hook
26 Feb 2026

Real estate professionals who successfully grow from solo agents into team leaders quickly discover an operational challenge they didn’t anticipate: password and credential management becomes a critical business issue faster than expected. The moment you bring on your first assistant who needs CRM access, or a junior agent who needs MLS credentials, informal password management ...

Heather Hook
26 Feb 2026

Michigan-based referral platform to present breakout session at Real Estate Distilled, one of few national conferences focused exclusively on independent brokerages. Realay will attend Real Estate Distilled in Louisville, Kentucky from March 16-18, marking the company’s first major conference appearance since launching its voice AI-powered mobile app in late 2025. The conference, which draws approximately ...

Heather Hook
26 Feb 2026

The conversation about artificial intelligence disrupting professional services intensifies weekly. Legal research, radiology interpretation, financial analysis, content creation – entire career categories face genuine automation threats. Yet one profession consistently absent from credible displacement predictions: real estate agents. Scott Spelker of The Spelker Team at Coldwell Banker Realty in Madison, New Jersey, spent 25 years ...

Heather Hook
24 Feb 2026

Billionaire-funded “Ambition Accelerated” initiative positions Gold Coast as unified business capital while corporate relocations accelerate The $10 Million Regional Marketing Play Ken Griffin and Stephen Ross each contributed $5 million to launch “Ambition Accelerated,” a national campaign targeting CEOs and founders in high-cost cities with messaging positioning South Florida’s Gold Coast as a unified economic ...

Heather Hook
23 Feb 2026

For years, Litchfield County in northwestern Connecticut was a well-kept secret – a place where New Yorkers retreated on Friday afternoons and left by Sunday evening. That dynamic has fundamentally shifted, and the data is hard to ignore. Prices are up roughly 30% since the pandemic. Luxury sales above $3 million, once a handful per ...

Heather Hook
20 Feb 2026

Darwin Stephens explains how luxury high-rise condos are replacing single-family teardowns in Dallas’s most prestigious neighborhoods, and buyers moving to the city without the right strategy are paying for it. Dallas is shifting vertically. Multi-family high-rise developments are emerging across the city, rental prices in luxury towers are breaching $10,000 to $11,000 per month, and ...

Heather Hook
19 Feb 2026

The True Life Companies’ Eastlake project in the Denver metro area sold to Mill Creek Residential in late 2025. Renderings and site plans are not final and are subject to change. Denver-based firm advances large-scale, mixed-use development in Thornton, Colorado DENVER, CO – The True Life Companies, LLC (“TTLC”), the Denver-based real estate investment and ...

Heather Hook
17 Feb 2026

The title insurance industry has seen a wave of automation vendors emerge in recent years, but a critical question often gets overlooked: does understanding the technology behind automation mean you understand the processes being automated? Jimmy Lewis, Co-Founder and CEO of TrueFocus Automation, argues that the answer is definitively no. With over 20 years in ...

Heather Hook
17 Feb 2026

Rochester MN agent Alex Mayer shares how to navigate the emotional and logistical complexity of selling a home during major life changes. The phone calls often start the same way. Someone has just been named executor of an estate, or they’ve taken over power of attorney for a family member experiencing cognitive decline. They’re overwhelmed ...