{"podcast":{"title":"this Week in Real Estate","slug":"this-week-in-real-estate-1143209","podcast_index_feed_id":1143209,"rss_url":"https://beardedmenofrealestate.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://thisweekinrealestate.libsyn.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/4/1/6/5/41658db6f09f29815f2e77a3093c12a1/twirepodlogo.png","author":"Ray Ellen","episode_count":100,"summary":"The longest running real estate news podcast created so that you would have one place to go to find out the latest real estate news and headlines with succinct professional analysis from those of us active in the field! We cover the national housing market, mortgage rates, the federal reserve, housing affordability, and real estate industry news and information! This show is brought to you by listeners & viewers like you. Hit the share button on your favorite podcatcher and send this to someone like you because it is listeners like YOU who make this podcast possible. Subscibe button and hit the bell so that you can be notificed when we are live and participate in the podcast chat. You can make comments and we can display that comment and talk about you or your comment!! We are also broadcasting on facebook, twitter, linked in, and you can join the conversation via audio on ClubHouse. Join us!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T08:21:11.381802+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-real-estate-1143209"},"episode":{"title":"Real Buys RE/MAX, Compass Goes Private & Housing Gets Weird","slug":"real-buys-re-max-compass-goes-private-housing-gets-weird","published_at":"2026-04-29T18:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-real-estate-1143209/real-buys-re-max-compass-goes-private-housing-gets-weird","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-real-estate-1143209","url":"https://beardedmenofrealestate.libsyn.com/real-buys-remax-compass-goes-private-housing-gets-weird","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/beardedmenofrealestate/358_Real_Buys_RE_MAX__Compass_Goes_Private__Housing_Gets_Weird.mp3?dest-id=2406185","summary":"Real Brokerage is buying RE/MAX in an $880 million deal, and the real estate industry may never look quite the same. This week on This Week in Real Estate, we're breaking down one of the biggest brokerage stories in years: Real Brokerage's planned acquisition of RE/MAX. Is this a brilliant consolidation play? A tech-forward brokerage swallowing one of the most recognizable legacy brands in real estate? Or a sign that scale is becoming the only way to survive the next chapter of the housing market? Real CEO Tamir Poleg called the RE/MAX acquisition \"the perfect match,\" but the industry reaction has been anything but quiet. Agents, brokers, franchise owners, and industry veterans are already debating what this means for agent splits, franchise models, revenue share, tech platforms, global brokerage scale, and the future of traditional real estate brands. And that is just where today's show starts. We're also digging into the private listing fight that refuses to go away. Compass is back in the spotlight as questions swirl around private exclusives, while MRED expands its Private Listing Network nationwide with Compass as the first major brokerage to join. The industry keeps saying it wants transparency, but more and more companies are building systems around controlled access, private inventory, and strategic exposure. Then we shift into the housing market, where the spring season is sending some seriously mixed signals. Home price growth appears to be stalling nationally, more sellers are putting homes on the market, mortgage rates are rising again, the Fed is expected to hold rates steady, and buyers are somehow still trickling back into the market. So what is really happening? Are we watching a healthier spring market take shape, or are buyers and sellers just trying…","meta_description":"Real Brokerage is buying RE/MAX in an $880 million deal, and the real estate industry may never look quite the same. This week on This Week in Real Estate…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4270,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-real-estate-1143209/episodes/real-buys-re-max-compass-goes-private-housing-gets-weird/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-real-estate-1143209/real-buys-re-max-compass-goes-private-housing-gets-weird.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}