Zillow announced today it’s ending its iBuyer service, Zillow Offers, and cutting roughly a quarter of its workforce, citing the volatility the service created for the online brokerage as the motivation for the move.

As more house hunters are opting to live in socially, racially and culturally diverse communities, developers are formulating strategies to list more inclusive properties on the market, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.  Developers’ strategies include

The two family-owned franchises will bring 80 years of combined real estate experience to Boston’s Back Bay.

Maggie Seelig of MGS Real Estate Group has announced she is opening her first suburban office in the MetroWest Suburbs, expanding the brokerage to assist buyers and sellers beyond Boston.

David DiGregorio of Coldwell Banker Realty’s Waltham office was recently honored with the Stars of Hope designation from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

The acquisition brings three new locations to BHHS Robert Paul Properties — Wellfleet, Orleans and South Yarmouth.

Working alongside his two sons, the chairman and CEO of William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance has big plans for the future of the company he hopes one day will be run by his grandchildren.

Robert Kinlin, a broker with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Robert Paul Properties, received  three national real estate awards this summer. 

William Raveis Real Estate acquired Sarasota, Fla.-based Key Solutions Real Estate, a luxury and family-owned brokerage with 44 associates. 

Senne has announced the addition of two new senior associates to its growing residential team, the company recently announced.

Kinlin Grover Real Estate is now part of the Compass network.

The pandemic brought online electronic notary services to Massachusetts, and now two of the state’s largest real estate groups are hoping to make the service permanent.

Homebuyers lucky enough to win a bidding war for a property are increasingly running headlong into appraisals that don’t match — or even come close to — the agreed sales price, leaving them with limited ways to close the sale.