Real Estate Blogs
- What’s next for housing: 7%, 8% or 9% mortgage rates?
- View Homes CEO Gandhi rebuilds builder operating platform
- ‘Lawfare is now the norm’: MLS leaders brace for more legal battles
- Why real estate agents are mentoring college athletes — and getting referrals
- Your best producer is the hardest person in the building to read
- Private listing ecosystems could deepen the housing affordability crisis
- HECM originations sink to lowest level since 2020, HMBS issuance down 17% in September
- Even a missed jobs report and the Fed talking dovish aren’t keeping yields lower
- Mortgage Banking Summit: ‘Street fight’ market concentrates growth toward nondelegated lenders
- Christie’s International Real Estate SoCal adds $180M in agent production with Pasadena expansion
- FHA launches optional transition period to UAD 3.6
- Before your borrower’s AI agent calls mine: Three questions mortgage servicers aren’t asking yet
- Pending home sales are falling, but the slowdown isn’t hitting every market
- A Super El Niño is brewing — what it could mean for housing
- CHLA backs Pulte plan for GSE credit score disclosures
- Compass’s Reffkin gives MLSs an ultimatum: Change listing rules or face lawsuits
- Archwest Capital closes $300M rated RTL securitization
- Zillow’s Samuelson: Undermining the MLS could bring regulators knocking
- Texas Mortgage Source: Reverse is the ‘largest underserved market in the business right now’
- When pricing power disappears, builders have to find margin upstream
- Stockton Mortgage elevates founder David Stockton to CEO, names new president
- The promise and risk of AI in mortgage lending and secondary markets
- The ROAD to Housing Act: The latest milestone in the history of American public housing
- You may not just have one credit score
- Judge denies Zillow’s motion to dismiss antitrust lawsuit
- The ‘choice market’ arrives as sellers face growing price pressure
- New homes still cost less than resales in many U.S. markets
- Signature Homes thinks 100-day builds can win in a smaller market
- FHFA says Fannie, Freddie will use one LLPA grid for FICO and VantageScore
- NRMLA says it will keep pushing for HECM insurance changes after remarks by Ginnie Mae president
- Home prices up 1.9% annually in July — energy, fuel costs loom
- The brokerage operating model has reached its limits
- Why connected data matters after the home is built
- Are 9% mortgage rates possible?
- From policy to a path forward
- Is technology changing the economics?
- UWM’s Mat Ishbia backs VantageScore 4.0, says Underwriting+ results are ‘off the charts’
- Lennar’s “home within a home” targets multigenerational demand
- Sitzer settlement survives another challenge as attorneys fight over $120M commission fund
- Can a $100M homebuilder build his own operating system with AI?
- Benchmark shuts down wholesale division Eleven Mortgage, says it will focus on retail
- Sometimes leaders have to take the stairs
- Mortgage rates have gone wild, so what’s next for housing?
- Compass asks MLSs to block listing data from recruiting tools
- Where builder discounts are biggest and who is still buying
- Proposal seeks to standardize MSR accounting for recapture values
- Gateless Smart Underwrite earns AZP Platinum AI certification
- Experian integrates Verify with Workday for income verification
- New Jersey looks to remove home interior photos upon buyer request
- How mortgage brokers can tap into underserved VA markets
- Institute for Luxury Home Marketing launches property search platform
- Judge dismisses UWM 401(k) forfeiture lawsuit under ERISA
- MLSs are changing. So is their relationship with Realtor associations
- Why file ops costs are the next pressure point for brokerages
- Search and exam is still mostly manual in an automated industry. But why?
- Why credit unions are missing the boat on reverse mortgage demand
- Builders cut prices as new home supply holds at 8.5 months
- Land strategy math gets tougher for homebuilders in 2027–2029
- Concerns over outliving assets grow among non-retirees
- HouseCanary’s bankruptcy fight is tied to a $175M+ verdict against Rocket Close
- A new MLS ‘constitution?’ Hive MLS CEO Daniel Jones makes his case
- Interlock ransomware claim triggers lawsuit against NFM Lending
- New home sales are at an 8-month high but still stuck after 10 years
- HouseCanary files for chapter 11 bankruptcy in New Jersey
- Before you say no: 5 borrower scenarios modern LOs can’t afford to miss
- How agents can vet a referral partner: 10 questions to ask before signing
- The examiner never called
- The silent failure mode: What happens when your AI model quietly gets worse
- Why default servicing breaks at the handoffs
- Unison faces another class-action lawsuit, this time in North Carolina
- KB Home’ build-to-order pivot pays off, but buyers remain cautious
- Perchwell CEO on landmark MLS shift to next-generation tech
- AI won’t get sued over a bad listing — the agent will
- Hot economic data sends mortgage rates to yearly highs
- Five questions loan officers should ask before preapproving complex income
- AARP lays out six areas of financial health for retirees
- Mortgage rates face several hurdles before they can return to 6%
- Housing boom expected to follow SpaceX Louisiana arrival
- Millrose plans $1 billion bond sale to fund homesite growth
- NextHome large-office model adds 5 former Keller Williams offices
- Why more real estate agents are getting their mortgage loan originator license
- Massachusetts ballot puts lot density up for a vote of the people
- New American Funding promotes Stacy Chevalier to Northwest regional VP
- LoanCare names Amy Jones chief information officer
- Technology is not culture
- Florida’s new law bars zoning discrimination against factory-built homes
- The mortgage industry starts helping borrowers too late
- Never quote your real estate commission by text
- Auction.com taps John Ken as SVP of marketing
- Networking for real estate agents, ask better questions and follow through
- HUD showcase spotlights Cavco chassis-free manufactured home
- Miami Realtors + RWorld forms new education partnership
- First-time homebuyers get help from Airbnb in New York City
- Real estate has a new-agent launch problem, not recruiting
- Will mortgage rates rise to 8% or drop to 6%?
- Realtor.com lead dispute heads to closed-door arbitration after appeal fails
- NIL era brings new wealth — and new buyers — to college housing markets
- Lennar defends even-flow, land banking strategy as risks build
- Hagens Berman seeking plaintiffs for Compass MRED class action
- Zillow-MRED antitrust battle shifts from courtroom to arbitration
- Key Mortgage hires Kevin Christopher as SVP of production
- Better board fight escalates as Vishal Garg selects 3 director candidates
- Zillow names Rikki Tremblay principal accounting officer
- Sidewalk gaps, train counts ignite California SB 79 zoning lawsuits
- The unseen shift in agency pools: How ‘lender choice’ is quietly repricing specified pools
- Gateway First Bank to acquire Colonial Savings
- Settlor integrates with TitleSphere, expands transaction data use
- Taylor Morrison CEO says trust can scale in a stress-test market
- Florida Agency Network expands CertifID use across closings
- NYC buyers caught in the middle of StreetEasy, Compass listing fight
- Housing starts outlook turns negative through 2027 as costs rise
- Zillow Preview listings now live on Realtor.com
- UWM says 25% of borrowers benefit from new credit score model
- Foreclosure filings rise 13% year-over-year, South hit hardest
- Who owns the customer? That depends on whom you ask.
- Can empowering small investors strengthen America’s housing supply?
- The wrong levers
- The Fed rate-hike cycle has started. What’s next?
- Housing Market Spotlight: The housing market signal to watch as rates top 7%
- What real estate professionals should know about the Fed rate hike
- Why more builder discounts are not unlocking new-home demand
- Fed hikes rates, with analysts seeing more tightening ahead
- Student loan match program could add up to $20B annually to retirement accounts
- Mainstay acquires Truelist, raises $18M in financing
- Lennar valuation near tangible book puts margins in spotlight
- Amblebrook and Shea’s Trilogy are rewriting their 55+ value pitch
- Compass launches global division for cross-border referrals
- Flock cameras changing due diligence for agents, homebuyers
- How DRB uses customer intel to connect land, product, and sales
- CoStar names Felix Kusch president of Homes.com
- Ameritrust sues investors, brokers over $14M loss in Baltimore fraud scheme
- HomeSmart signs marketing agreement with loanDepot
- StreetEasy changes Experts rules and lowers success fees
- First American expands no-cost property title monitoring
- DSCR loans are booming amid fragmented underwriting standards
- Housing market faces headwinds as mortgage rates move above 7%
- Zillow faces shareholder lawsuit over Redfin deal
- Park Street Homes expands urban infill homebuilding model
- The Agency hires Jim Lonergan to lead Midwest expansion
- MISMO board adds VantageScore, Guild and FICO leaders amid credit modernization push
- IRES MLS names Julie Dahl CEO, succeeding Jeff Bosch
- Putting the ROAD Act into action faces a funding and HUD gauntlet
- August CPI shows sticky core inflation ahead of Fed meeting
- MLS of 2030 will be defined by who controls housing data
- 25 years after 9/11, Homes for Heroes has given back nearly $200M
- Providence rent stabilization push springs back to post-primary life
- CCM pushes conforming loan limit to $845,000 ahead of FHFA announcement
- Toughen up: StyleCraft Builders CEO on back-to-basics leadership
- New credit score pricing grids point to higher borrower costs, report shows
- Fifth Circuit upholds dismissal of NAR three-way agreement suit
- Homeowners insurance costs hit another record high of $209 per month in Q2 2026
- Mortgage rates top 7% as oil hits $100 and yields climb
- Existing home sales slip to 3.98 million in August as rates take a bite
- More seniors struggle to age in place as support gaps widen
- Ocrolus integrates with Freddie Mac AIM Check
- Parents follow their kids to the South in ‘baby chaser’ boom
- Housing Market Spotlight: When housing market signals don’t agree
- National Home Corp. targets 18% gross margin with pace focus
- Sotheby’s International Realty brings ONE, TTR under company-owned brokerage
- Do you have what it takes to scale profitably for the model you are running?
- Buying a home now beat waiting in 61% of scenarios, AD Mortgage study finds
- GSEs open VantageScore 4.0 to all single-family lenders
- REMAX adds Missoula affiliate with REMAX Confluence
- Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices adds Nevada leadership
- UWM drops high-balance LLPAs, extends Bullseye 90 pricing
- Can tech keep agents out of trouble for listing mistakes?
- Florida’s housing market looks shaky. Orlando tells a more complicated story
- Truss Financial scales hybrid model with new direct lending platform
- FSBO.com rolls out tech platform to streamline home purchase agreements
- George Morales on proprietary reverse mortgages and MISMO standards
- Why the best master-planned communities are designed around everyday life
- Housing year-over-year comps need context for the rest of 2026
- Trump threatens trade halt if Fed does not cut rates
- Fay Group acquires VanDyk Mortgage to expand conforming loan footprint
- ICE raids strain homebuilder labor, cycle times, and bank lines
- Why mortgage rates barely budged after jobs report beat estimates
- Pulte says FHFA weighing bi-merge, single credit report
- August payrolls rise 162,000, Fed rate hike odds in focus
- Hyperlocal micromarkets may be the next big housing data shift
- Investor share slips to 27% of single-family purchases, Cotality says
- SERHANT. adds Chad Bishop Group in Fort Lauderdale
- Authority compounds on LinkedIn. Absence compounds, too.
- Homebuilder sellers face tougher prices as M&A appetite slows
- Is NWMLS’ First Look the template for MLS coming soon policies?
- The biggest impact of the SpaceX IPO won’t be in Silicon Valley
- Vishal Garg lays out Better turnaround plan amid battle with board
- The missing step in real estate marketing is the reply
- Graceful Finance’s ‘Lifestyle Agreement’ targets senior homeowners with reverse mortgage alternative
- Dark Matter Technologies expands leadership team
- Economic activity edges higher amid mixed consumer signals
- Atlantic Avenue ranks No. 1 as higher rates keep June’s HECM broker activity in check
- Why Reno’s housing market is holding up while Phoenix, Denver and Austin fall
- Gen Z is buying homes. Is the mortgage industry ready?
- What employer housing benefits are still missing
- Michigan primary wins bolster momentum for zoning reforms
- Compass-NWMLS settlement bigger than ‘coming soon’ listings
- eXp ends mortgage JV with Kind Lending, eyes Newrez deal
- Rocket’s amended complaint says UWM targeted Mr. Cooper borrowers
- Real estate doesn’t compete with other brokerages anymore
- Immigration enforcement tightens squeeze on homebuilders’ job sites
