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Report: Senior Living Transaction Activity Reached $24B in 2025

CHICAGO — Transaction activity in the senior living sector reached just over $24 billion in 2025, according to JLL’s “Seniors Housing and Care: Investor Survey and Trends Outlook” report. The repor...

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President Donald Trump: I have an idea to help first-time homebuyers

Over the past several months, former President Donald Trump has floated a number of ideas aimed at helping Americans buy homes again. Among them are proposals such as 50-year mortgages and other cr...

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Trump’s mortgage order sets stage for regulatory shift, draws consumer backlash

President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting mortgages addresses several concerns raised by banks and nonbanks, which have largely welcomed it as a road map for regulatory change. But it’s al...

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Compass dismisses antitrust lawsuit against Zillow over listing policy

Compass is dismissing its antitrust lawsuit against Zillow over the listing portal giant’s listing access standards policy. The Robert Reffkin-helmed firm filed its motion to dismiss the lawsuit wi...

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Spanberger’s Virginia housing agenda falls short on local pushback

New Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s first-year housing agenda delivered new money and new tools for affordable housing preservation, but it fell short on the package’s biggest supply-side propos...

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Best CCRC Lite: The Springs at the Waterfront Puts Nature Front and Center in Its Urban Setting

The Springs Living faced a significant challenge in developing its latest property, The Springs at the Waterfront: It had to bring its standard design principles, used for larger parcels of land, t...

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Fortress Investment Group Launches 1031 Exchange Platform Targeting $100-$200M, With 40% Focus on Senior Living

Fortress Investment Group has launched Fortress Real Estate Exchange, a new 1031 exchange platform that includes senior housing among its targeted investment sectors. The platform is de...

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Atlantic Avenue Mortgage leads HECM broker endorsement activity in January

Following in the footsteps of an initial dataset for 2025, Reverse Market Insight (RMI) and HECMWorld published updated numbers this week for reverse mortgage broker and third-party originator acti...

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Midwest Real Estate Data moves to abandon NAR membership requirement

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) moved Monday to formally separate access to its multiple listing service (MLS) from mandatory membership with the National Association of Realtors (NAR) — a change t...

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Mortgage demand plummets 11% as 30-year fixed rate rises to 6.3%

Mortgage applications decreased 10.9% from one week earlier, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)’s weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending March 13. On an una...

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Global luxury housing markets move toward equilibrium in 2026

Luxury housing markets across the globe are moving toward a healthier equilibrium after years of heightened buyer demand, tight inventory and disconnected pricing expectations, according to the Chr...

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Qualia CEO Nate Baker: “AI is as significant as language and fire”

Qualia today announced the launch of Qualia Clear 2.0, an upgrade to its agentic AI system for the title and escrow industry that company leadership says represents a major step toward fully automa...

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ICE’s Matt Dowd on targeting mortgage servicing call volume with AI agents

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is targeting long-standing friction in mortgage servicing with new artificial intelligence-powered voice and chat agents designed to handle routine borrower inquirie...

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IMBs remain profitable, but margins slip 44% in Q4 behind lower revenues

Independent mortgage banks (IMBs) and mortgage subsidiaries of chartered banks reported an average pretax net profit of $674 on each loan originated in the the fourth quarter of 2025 — a 44% declin...

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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac announce revisions to condo insurance standards

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Wednesday announced updates to condominium project standards and property insurance requirements for one- to four-unit properties and project developments, with a stat...

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Fed keeps rates unchanged as inflation, geopolitical risks cloud outlook

In a widely expected move, the Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate steady Wednesday at a target range of 3.5% to 3.75%, the same level it set in January. “Available indicato...

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Anywhere’s Sue Yannaccone named Compass International Holdings COO

Compass International Holdings (CIH), the parent company of Compass, @properties, Christie’s International Real Estate and the six Anywhere Real Estate brands, has promoted Sue Yannaccone to chief ...

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California transit agency land could support 240,000 homes

California lawmakers have spent years passing bills aimed at increasing housing supply, with an emphasis on building more homes near transit. A new analysis from Enterprise Community Par...

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eXp Realty adds coming soon syndication to Realtor.com, Homes.com, ComeHome.com

As the real estate industry leans into the pre-marketing of coming soon listings on national portals, eXp Realty has decided not to put all of its eggs in one real estate portal basket. On Wednesda...

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The 3% rule: Why this pricing move is driving faster home sales

While housing headlines often focus on affordability pressures at the low end or sharper discounts in luxury markets, new HousingWire data shows the most consistent pricing strategy is emerging in ...

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MoxiWorks signs renewed strategic deal with Michael Saunders & Company for AI marketing platform

MoxiWorks has renewed a strategic technology partnership with Michael Saunders & Company to power the brokerage’s next phase of growth with AI-driven marketing, CRM and productivity tools, the ...

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