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Alegre Home Care Joins Elder Care Alliance

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Alegre Home Care, which provides in-home care assistance to elderly and disabled individuals, is joining Elder Care Alliance (ECA). Based in Alameda, ECA is a non-profit a...

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Mortgage rates hit year-to-date lows after Powell comments

We’ve reached fresh new year-to-date lows in mortgage rates after Jerome Powell, speaking at the Jackson Hole Economic Summit on Friday, suggested that the labor market may be more important than i...

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USDA is automating its loan application uploading

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced this week that it has awarded technology services firm Phoenixteam a $49 million contract to modernize its mortgage underwriting platform, the Gu...

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InterFace CEO Panel: Incentivizing, Learning From Community-Level Employees Improves Labor, Operator Performance

CHICAGO — Five years removed from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit seniors housing communities, owners and operators particularly hard, the industry is still processing and gleaning l...

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With Leaner Portfolio and New Leadership, Watermark Executes On ‘Shrinking to Grow’ Strategy

This story is part of your SHN+ subscription Watermark Retirement Communities is making progress on its plans to evolve and improve since naming a new CEO earlier this year. T...

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Powell’s Jackson Hole speech stirs cautious optimism for housing

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech on Friday at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium left real estate and mortgage professionals cautiously optimistic. While expectations are building for ...

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Homebuyers seek independent research, but still want a real estate agent

From business practice changes, to a slowing housing market, to rapidly advancing technology, real estate agents have had to adapt quite a bit over the past few years. Still, homebuyers find them m...

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Senior Living Bid-Ask Spread Narrowing, Paving Way for More Investment Activity

The gap between senior living seller pricing expectations and buyer offers has narrowed, leading to more transactions as industry-wide occupancy rates continue to climb. That’s accordin...

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Ventas Reportedly to Acquire Six-Property Portfolio From Harrison Street, B2K for $600M

Senior living REIT Ventas (NYSE: VTR) is said to be acquiring a six-community portfolio on New York’s Long Island for $600 million. According to an Aug. 22 story on Bloomberg, sources fa...

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Is the real estate industry getting its antitrust enforcement wish?

Many in the real estate industry lauded President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election as they anticipated his win would usher in a new wave of weaker antitrust scrutiny on an i...

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What to expect next from The Builder’s Daily

No one in the homebuilding business I know is sitting around waiting for things to get easier. That’s not how this works. Not in 2025. Not when mortgage rates, insurance shock...

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Tech Pulse: eXp’s digital twin trend; lenders urged to build AI compliance

Welcome back to Tech Pulse — HousingWire‘s weekly series rounding up the latest in technology news, including tools, integrations and trends that impact mortgage and real estate. Here’s ...

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Older adults support many types of housing regulation reform

Older adults support changing zoning laws to make homebuilding easier, according to new surveys by AARP and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Older adults overwhelmingly want to age in place, but their ho...

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Bright MLS, Williamsburg MLS launch data share

Bright MLS has agreed to share its data with yet another multiple listing service. On Wednesday, Bright announced that it had entered into a data sharing agreement with Virginia-based Williamsburg ...

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Mortgage rates fall after Powell admits fear of labor market softening

Today was a significant day for Jerome Powell. In today’s speech at the Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Powell prioritized labor over inflation. Both of these factors have been moving ...

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Trump tells reporters he’ll fire Fed’s Lisa Cook if she doesn’t resign

President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he intends to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook if she does not resign from her position. “What she did was bad,” the president...

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Powell hints at resuming Fed rate cuts in Jackson Hole speech

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday signaled that the central bank is preparing to resume interest rate cuts soon, warning of growing labor market risks even as inflation remains elevated...

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Redfin: Home purchase cancellations hit 8-year high

Nearly 58,000 U.S. home-purchase agreements were canceled in July, equal to 15.3% of homes that went under contract during the month, according to a Redfin analysis of MLS data. That marks t...

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Rising insurance costs cut into buyer affordability

Housing affordability is taking center stage this fall for the Trump administration. From President Donald Trump’s early executive order ordering the heads of all executive departments and agencies...

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Fractional home ownership is breaking barriers: How Pacaso is taking the lead

Survey finds affordability and financing are driving more buyers into the second-home market In today’s economy, traditional ownership is increasingly inaccessible and misaligned with th...

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The real work of AI in mortgage tech begins now

Artificial intelligence is dominating headlines, investor decks, and conference panels—but in mortgage lending, the real breakthroughs aren’t always the flashiest. As the industry moves past the AI...

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