Housing

Open letter to FHFA, HUD, CFPB and Congress

The President neither signed nor vetoed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, proving that sometimes doing absolutely nothing is still enough to make a law. Policymakers are calling the leg...

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Louisville cannot solve a housing crisis while limiting who gets to build the solution

America has finally begun to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: We don’t simply have an affordable housing funding problem—we have an affordable housing production problem. The recently...

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DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards: Nina Quirk, Culinary Services Director, The Commons in Lincoln, a Benchmark Senior Living CCRC

Nina Quirk, Culinary Services Director at The Commons in Lincoln, a Benchmark Senior Living CCRC, has been named a member of the DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards Class of 2026 by Senio...

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Future Leader: Megan Herwig, Director of Resident Engagement, Priority Life Care

Megan Herwig, Director of Resident Engagement at Priority Life Care, has been named to the Future Leaders Class of 2026 by Senior Housing News. To become a Future Leader, an individual i...

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How Villa Marin’s Resident-Led Operations, Ownership Model Keeps Older Adults Engaged

Residents at Villa Marin, a not-for-profit life plan community in California, own and help shape what goes on in the where they live. It’s all part of how the operator keeps them feeling well and e...

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Miami Realtors + RWorld’s Dionna Hall on building a unified South Florida MLS

South Florida MLSs and real estate associations are becoming more unified. Last week, Miami Realtors + RWorld merged with Martin County Realtors of the Treasure Coast, expanding the or...

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Real estate brokers say rising mortgage rates derail early 2026 housing rebound

Heading into 2026, most economists and industry analysts were anticipating a stronger housing market than in past years. And for the first nearly two months of the year, it was looking like 2026 mi...

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loanDepot picks Miami for new tech and fulfillment corporate center

loanDepot will open a new corporate center in Miami in September, establishing an East Coast hub that expands its national footprint and centralizes key corporate functions, the company announced T...

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Couples can boost retirement savings with one simple conversation

Many couples may be missing out on thousands of dollars in additional retirement savings simply because they are not discussing how they contribute to their workplace retirement plans, according to...

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Welltower Notches $6.2B in Acquisitions During 2Q, Mostly Off-Market

Welltower (NYSE: WELL) landed 30 transactions in the second quarter of this year, totaling $6.2B in primarily off-market deals and reflecting the company’s ability to leverage its reputation to gro...

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DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards: Anthony Napolitano, Executive Chef, Edgehill, a Benchmark Senior Living CCRC

Anthony Napolitano, Executive Chef at Edgehill, a Benchmark Senior Living CCRC, has been named a member of the DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards Class of 2026 by Senior Housing News. ...

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The Sitzer/Burnett data motion is a compliance warning

On July 23, plaintiffs in the Sitzer/Burnett and Gibson cases asked Judge Stephen Bough to enforce something this industry already agreed to. As HousingWire reported, they want the listing and comm...

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David Abrahamson returns to Equity Prime Mortgage as CRO

Mortgage lender Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) announced on Tuesday that it has appointed mortgage industry veteran David Abrahamson as its chief risk officer. Abrahamson previously worked ...

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Lofty expands AI platform, launches House.ai for homebuyers

Lofty today announced an expanded version of its AI operating system, Lofty AOS, along with Lofty Cowork and House.ai, a financial intelligence platform for homeownership. The company sa...

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Brokerage transaction fees could cost consumers $2 billion

A new Consumer Policy Center (CPC) report found that administrative “junk fees” charged by real estate brokerages to both home buyers and sellers have become widespread, often ranging from $400 to ...

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Case-Shiller home prices rise 1.1% in May, still lag inflation

Despite rising at a faster annual pace than a month prior, home prices continued to decline in real terms in May, according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Index released on Tuesday. T...

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How Honolulu leveraged AI to cut permit review times in half

A big push to streamline housing development, and bend cost and affordability barriers for would-be homeowners and renters, increasingly focuses on reducing painfully-elongated permitting review ti...

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The Fed hawks are winning even without a rate hike

To hike or not to hike? That is the question being discussed today as the Fed’s two-day meeting is underway, but I would argue that the Fed hawks have already effectively gotten their rate hikes in...

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Newrez posts strong Q2 profit, eyes $65B in originations for 2026

Newrez delivered a higher profit in the second quarter of 2026 as its mortgage servicing performance improved and originations increased compared to the prior quarter. Executives at pare...

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Mortgage rates move closer to 7%, but housing demand holds up ahead of Fed meeting

Mortgage rates continued to climb this week and are now approaching 7% for locked loans across all borrower credit profiles. But home purchase and refinance demand hasn’t fallen steeply despite the...

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Bright MLS hires Steve Mapes as EVP of growth and strategy

North Bethesda, Maryland-based Bright MLS has hired Steve Mapes as executive vice president of growth and strategy, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Mapes joins Bright from First...

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