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Redfin's four-week pending sales count fell to 299,126, the lowest in nearly three years
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MBA's purchase applications index was 15% below a year earlier in the week ending 2 October as its 30-year rate reached 7.49%
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Existing-home sales fell 2.0% to 3.98 million in August and the 30-year rate has since reached 7.40%
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Mortgage rates track the 10-year Treasury yield, which was 5.22% on 8 October against a Fed funds rate of 3.88%
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Cotality's chief economist puts a 9% mortgage rate in a severe scenario and about 7% in the base case
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NAR puts first-time buyers at 29% of sales and FHFA's data puts them at 54.8% of purchase mortgages
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New-home inventory runs at 9.3 months of supply against 4.6 months for existing homes
Arizona notaries must take a thumbprint on deeds from 12 September
Senate Bill 1479, signed on 9 April, puts the signer's right thumbprint in the notary journal for any deed, deed of trust or power of attorney and raises the penalty for recording a forged or groundless claim to a class 5 felony. Virginia's settlement agents have owed a seller identity check since 1 July. The FBI issued its parcel owner impersonation alert on 16 June, and its 2025 real estate complaint count is up by a third.
TC Bulletin Staff/9 min read
Real and RE/MAX Holdings completed their combination on 24 August 2026
The 8-K filed at closing gives the final terms, a cash election that was oversubscribed and prorated, and the resignation of RE/MAX Holdings' directors and named officers. TC Bulletin's 18 August story gave the stock election as 5.152 shares, and the filing states 0.5150.
Redfin's four-week pending sales count fell to 299,126, the lowest in nearly three years
The count for the four weeks ending 13 September is 5.4% below a year earlier. Redfin's August monthly report puts homes for sale at 1,534,918, the most since 2020, and NAR's independent contract index was 4.7% below August 2025.
On the record
Figures the desk is tracking. Each links to the story that sources it.
Licensing scope, unlicensed-assistant rules and the state guidance that decides what a coordinator may sign, quote and explain.
Oregon now disciplines a broker for not supervising unlicensed assistants
House Bill 3137 adds a sixteenth ground for suspension or revocation: a managing principal broker who fails to exercise reasonable supervision and control. The written policy that duty requires now has to name how the office manages unlicensed assistants specifically, not just licensed staff.
Virginia lists 18 tasks an unlicensed assistant may do
Texas bars unlicensed coordinators from soliciting, even to book the agent's call
Wire fraud, business email compromise and the closing-table attacks that land on the coordinator's desk first.
A title agency's 30-day notice deadline started at the IT review, not the lawsuit
A federal court dismissed Heart of Gold Title's coverage claim over a $480,150 diverted wire, ruling its cyber policy's notice clock began when the agency's own IT vendor investigated in March 2024, seven months before it told its insurer. The agency's cover was gone before the lawsuit that prompted the claim was even filed.
Arizona notaries must take a thumbprint on deeds from 12 September
Fraud flags stayed above 40% of files for five straight quarters
Platform releases, integrations, pricing and ownership changes across transaction management software.
Real and RE/MAX Holdings completed their combination on 24 August 2026
The 8-K filed at closing gives the final terms, a cash election that was oversubscribed and prorated, and the resignation of RE/MAX Holdings' directors and named officers. TC Bulletin's 18 August story gave the stock election as 5.152 shares, and the filing states 0.5150.
Real and RE/MAX shareholders approve the $880 million merger
BoldTrail BackOffice now checks transaction files with AI
Contract forms, agreement changes and the association rulemaking that rewrites a coordinator's checklist.
Minnesota condo resales now require the association's maintenance plan and budget
A new line on the statutory Resale Disclosure Certificate, in force since 1 August, requires copies of the association's written preventative maintenance plan, schedule and budget or a statement of how to get them electronically. Minnesota Realtors revised four common interest community forms to match.
North Carolina buyers get one banking day to pay the Due Diligence Fee
Foreign buyers spent $45.3bn on US homes, 48% of it all cash
The profession itself: credentials, pay, associations, hiring and how coordinators actually run a book of files.
Redfin's four-week pending sales count fell to 299,126, the lowest in nearly three years
The count for the four weeks ending 13 September is 5.4% below a year earlier. Redfin's August monthly report puts homes for sale at 1,534,918, the most since 2020, and NAR's independent contract index was 4.7% below August 2025.
MBA's purchase applications index was 15% below a year earlier in the week ending 2 October as its 30-year rate reached 7.49%
Existing-home sales fell 2.0% to 3.98 million in August and the 30-year rate has since reached 7.40%
Standing pages on the subjects that keep coming back, with dated facts and the primary sources attached.
Wire fraud
What the numbers say, who publishes them, and what a transaction coordinator is expected to do about it.
6 facts/4 answers
Unlicensed assistant rules
There is no national scope of practice for transaction coordination. Every answer is a state answer.
5 facts/4 answers
NAR settlement
The dates, in order, and what the practice changes did to a coordinator's checklist.
4 facts/3 answers
Credentials
One credential, one state association, and a great deal of private training that is not either of those things.
5 facts/3 answers
Transaction software
Who owns what, which names changed, and what to ask before trusting an extraction.
5 facts/3 answers
Every source this desk reads, published in full
No dedicated news aggregator existed for this profession, so the first thing we built was the list. Regulators, title trade press, fraud reporting and vendor changelogs, with the feed URL where one exists and a note on what we have confirmed at the source.
Open the source directory- Sources tracked
- 90
- Confirmed at source
- 56
- With a published feed
- 4
- Categories
- 7
One email a week, on the Monday
What changed in licensing guidance, forms, fraud reporting and transaction software, with the source and the date on every item. No coaching, no affiliate roundups.