Housing

Leadership has a dress code

I’ve always believed that leadership has a dress code. Not the one about what you wear. This one is about the connections you carry and the circles you run in. You won’t find it in the company hand...

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Taste, guts and receipts

Log out of ChatGPT. Not forever. Just for the length of this column. You can log back in at the end. I’ll tell you what to do differently. One of the most-followed executives in mortgag...

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Senator moves to regulate home equity investments at the federal level

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would amend the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) to explicitly include home equity investments (HEIs) within the law’s definition of residential mortgage loans — a m...

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Public record-linked AI misses key title issues in many searches

DataTrace Information Services has released a new analysis examining whether artificial intelligence (AI) relying solely on public records can produce the accuracy and completeness required for ins...

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Squeezed NYC affordable housing properties face reckoning

New York City’s regulated affordable housing sector is confronting a worsening financial squeeze, and a reckoning is coming unless solutions emerge, according to a new survey of owners, managers, l...

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Q2 2026 earnings for publicly traded mortgage, real estate and homebuilder companies

HousingWire reports on the quarterly earnings of publicly traded mortgage, real estate and homebuilder companies, offering a glimpse into the financial performance of key players in the housing mar...

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In the Pipeline: Acts Retirement Life Communities Starts on $200M Expansion; Covenant Living Continues Growth

In the Pipeline is part of your SHN+ subscription In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting...

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LTC SHOP Growth in 2026 Reflecting ‘Dramatic Shift’ From Two Years Ago

Leaders with LTC Properties (NYSE: LTC) are continuing the company’s pivot to senior living with a strategy of acquiring communities and adding them to its senior housing operating portfolio. ...

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Ventas CIO Hutchens: Rising Occupancy Means Senior Living Must Evolve Beyond ‘Old Standard’

This story is part of your SHN+ subscription As demand for senior living surges and the rate of new community openings stagnates, operators are in 2026 moving closer to full occupancy. That ...

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Are data centers the next constraint on affordable housing supply?

[Editor’s note: This is part 2 of a 3-part HousingWire special series on the impacts of data centers in housing. Part 1 is here.] In 1998, when Steve Alloy succeeded his father, Martin, ...

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Blend reports stronger Q2 results on software growth

Blend Labs on Thursday reported higher second-quarter revenue and a narrower operating loss, driven by growth in its software platform business as the digital mortgage technology provider expanded ...

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Move points to RealPRO Select as Realtor.com revenue keeps climbing

Move, the parent company of Realtor.com, said it is seeing the investments it has made into “premium offerings” like RealPRO Select pay off. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 202...

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New American Funding adds top Texas LOs Shane Masterman and Christian Johnson

New American Funding (NAF) announced Thursday that it has added originators Shane Masterman and Christian Johnson to its Dallas-Fort Worth operations as the pair launch Cantera Home Lending within ...

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Zillow Showcase partnership gives Baird and Warner listings priority

Baird & Warner has signed an exclusive agreement with Zillow to offer its agents access to Zillow Showcase at a 40% discount from standard pricing, giving the Chicago-area brokerage’s listings ...

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Cotality says mortgage fraud risk rose 9.1% in Q2

Mortgage application fraud risk increased in the second quarter of 2026 as purchase lending regained momentum and higher mortgage rates kept refinance activity subdued, according to Cotality‘s Nati...

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Real estate brokerage AI adoption hits a tipping point as holdouts disappear

Real estate brokerages are rapidly embracing artificial intelligence (AI), with just 2% reporting no plans to adopt AI in 2026, according to three-year analysis from the Delta Media Group Real Esta...

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Stop saying ‘agent’ and ‘salesperson’ and explain the job like a profession

Every profession sorts itself into a family. Ask a biologist to classify an animal and they do not go by just appearance alone. They go by its underlying traits, the characteristics that reveal wha...

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Pennymac rolls out VA partial claim option ahead of November deadline

PennyMac Financial Services said Thursday that it has become the first large mortgage servicer to implement the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs‘ (VA) new loss-mitigation waterfall, including th...

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REMAX hires Michael Altneu to lead luxury strategy

Michael Altneu recently joined REMAX as vice president of luxury, moving from Coldwell Banker, where he led the brokerage’s global luxury division. Altneu, who started at REMAX in May, i...

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Marti Realty Group joins Keller Williams City-View San Antonio

Marti Realty Group, an independent brokerage that operates as a team, has affiliated with Keller Williams City-View in San Antonio, Texas, and plans to take its new-home technology platform, New Ho...

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UWM pays up for capital as it resets leverage targets

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) president and CEO Mat Ishbia is pitching the lender’s $2.05 billion capital raise with Oaktree Capital Management and his family as a long-term strategic partnership...

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