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📰 News Feed — international + local market intelligence

Inspired by Keeping Current Matters. Real estate news that matters to your realtor — international market data, local development news, mortgage rate moves, and the latest from their specific market. AI-summarized so they don't have to read 12 articles. Click any item to repost as a Studio-generated piece.

Wave 2 · 🟢 Later KCM-style · "stay current" baked in F-149

The goal

Be the place realtors check before their morning calls.

KCM built a whole company around "stay current." We bake that into our app. Headlines + AI summaries from sources realtors trust + their local market on top. The compounding effect: realtors who use us for content also use us for awareness — they don't need to subscribe to KCM separately, they don't need to scroll Inman, they get their morning update from us.

+ daily login

Morning routine: open Social Realtr, scan news, see what's happening.

News → content loop

Click "post about this" → Studio generates a script in their voice on the news item. Closed loop.

Local + international

Both feeds visible. Realtor sees the macro AND their market in one view.

−$25/mo savings

KCM subscription replaced by what they already pay us. Adds value without adding cost.

The proposal · Full News tab

Three feeds, one screen

Filter chips at top: All / 🌍 International / 📍 Local / 📊 Market data. Top "morning digest" card summarizes the day in 3 numbers (mortgage rate, US median price, your city's MoM change). Below: a grid of cards — each with a one-line AI summary, source pill, and "post about this" CTA that funnels into the Creative Studio.

app.socialrealtr.com/news

📊 Your Tuesday morning digest · May 5, 2026

Bank of Canada held rates steady. US median asking price hit $429K (↑ 2.1% YoY). Surrey market saw 14 new listings yesterday — three under $1M, a sign of softening at the entry tier.

5.49%

Avg 5-yr fixed mortgage · Canada

$429K

US median · ↑ 2.1% YoY

New listings · Surrey · 24h

All 📍 Local · Surrey, BC 🌍 International 📊 Market data 🏗 Developments 🍕 Local spots

REUTERS 🌍 INTL

Bank of Canada holds rate at 4.75% — fourth straight pause

2 hours ago · 🔥 Hot for buyer-side scripts

Pause signals confidence in inflation cooling. Mortgage market expected to stay flat through Q3. Buyers waiting for cuts may reconsider.

CITY OF SURREY 📍 LOCAL

Concord West Surrey breaks ground on 980-unit tower at 152nd

Yesterday · Local development

First completion expected Q4 2028. Pre-sales open to existing investors May 12. Significant pricing impact expected on neighboring resale.

INMAN 🌍 INTL

Zillow's iBuyer profit margin shrinks for third quarter in a row

5 hours ago

Implications for the broader iBuyer thesis. Realtors representing sellers may want to reset expectations on speed-vs-price tradeoff this season.

CREA 📊 DATA

Greater Vancouver MLS: April sales up 14% MoM, prices flat

8 hours ago · Local market data

Volume returning while prices stay anchored. Detached up 1.2%. Townhomes flat. Apartments down 0.4%. Healthy market signaling for buyer-side scripts.

THE GLOBE & MAIL 🌍 INTL

First-time buyer share hits 14-year low in Q1 2026

Yesterday

Affordability + competition pushed first-timers to sidelines. Big opportunity for agents who specialize — script angle: "what they don't tell first-timers about today's market."

VANCOUVER SUN 📍 LOCAL

"The Cloverdale Roastery" opens in Surrey's east side

3 days ago · Local spot

New artisan coffee bar at 60th Ave + 176th. Walking distance from 4 of your active listings. Local-spotlight content opportunity.

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1"AI-summarized" tag. Transparency: realtor sees these are AI summaries, not human edited. Updated every X minutes via cron + RSS pull. The transparency builds trust.

2Morning digest card. Three big numbers — mortgage rate, US median, their city's 24h listing count — synthesized into a 2-sentence brief. The "everything I need before my 9 AM call" surface.

3Filter chips with location-specific. "Local · Surrey, BC" auto-detects from Brand Profile coverage. Realtors in Toronto see "Local · Toronto, ON." International + market data are universal feeds.

4"Post about this" — the news → content loop. Click → opens Creative Studio with the news item pre-fed as context. Studio writes a script in the realtor's voice riffing on the news. Closes the loop from "I read this" to "I posted about this."

5Source attribution. Every card carries the original publisher (Reuters, Inman, CREA, etc.). Avoids any "AI plagiarism" optics. "Read source" link goes to original article. Local spots are tagged so the AI can also use them in Studio's "local-spotlight" pillar generations.

Dashboard preview · F-149

How the snippet appears on the dashboard

A compact 2-card preview lives on the main dashboard. One international, one local. Click → full News tab. The realtor sees what's happening in 5 seconds without leaving home.

app.socialrealtr.com/dashboard · News widget

Open questions for Trent

News sources. Default sources I'm assuming: Reuters, Inman, CREA, Globe & Mail (Canada), Vancouver Sun (BC), Realtor.com (US), local-city paper per market. Should we license aggregator content (e.g. NewsAPI, NewsCatcher) or scrape RSS directly? Affects cost + reliability.
"Post about this" handoff. Mockup sends the news item into Creative Studio as context. Should the generated post auto-include a source link? Recommend yes — keeps us legally clean and gives the realtor authority signal ("I read this in Reuters and here's what it means for you").
Local feed accuracy. Surrey content is the example. For US realtors we need US sources, for Toronto we need Toronto sources. Do we maintain a curated source-list per market, or use AI to discover relevant sources dynamically per Brand Profile location?
KCM positioning. Should we explicitly market this as "replaces your KCM subscription," or stay subtler? Subtler probably wins — KCM has lawyers; our message can stand on its own without comparison.
Frequency of the morning digest. Once-a-day fresh? Updated continuously? Push as an email at 7 AM each day? Recommend: web feed updates every 30 min, plus an opt-in 7 AM email summary.