Housing

BKeeperAI launches AI-powered text messaging expense assistant for real estate

BKeeperAI has officially launched its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered expense assistant designed to help real estate professionals and independent business owners manage business expenses enti...

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MBA warns FHFA about changing manufactured home definition in Duty to Serve rule

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is urging the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to move carefully as it finalizes changes to its Duty to Serve (DTS) rule. The trade group back...

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MBA’s HMDA analysis finds proprietary reverse mortgages jumped 118% in 2025

Proprietary reverse mortgages continued to gain market share in 2025, fueled by rapid growth in originations and larger loan balances, according to a Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) analysis of ...

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FirstTeam Real Estate, Purlin partner on AI-powered operations

FirstTeam Real Estate has partnered with Purlin to deploy an AI-powered operating system across the brokerage, giving agents a unified platform for managing contracts, negotiations, transactions an...

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Kim Smith on SmartFi’s strategy to grow the reverse mortgage pie

While the reverse mortgage industry has historically relied on specialized originators to drive volume, wholesale lender SmartFi Home Loans is looking elsewhere to expand the market. Th...

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Milliman buys Blue Water MSR valuation, hedging unit from Apex Analytics

Consulting firm Milliman has acquired Blue Water mortgage servicing rights (MSR) valuation and hedging services from Apex Analytics Corp., adding another platform less than a year after buying MorV...

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When your AI vendor gets it wrong, you’re still responsible

Mortgage servicers are misreading the current moment. Enforcement looks quiet, but accountability has never been broader. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued zero consent ord...

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From weeks to minutes: How AI-native land acquisition is changing the game for homebuilders

Land acquisition has become one of the homebuilding industry’s most important competitive advantages. Yet many teams still rely on manual research, disconnected data and broker-listed opportunities...

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Beyond the mortgage: Alex Song on how Made Card is building homeowner loyalty through everyday engagement

Homeownership really starts at closing, yet that’s often where the relationship between borrowers and lenders ends. As affordability pressures continue to reshape the housing market, borrower engag...

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10 Sunday Reads

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Trump and prediction markets are building a society of suckers: The gamification of everything — politics...

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Home sales are positive but higher rates slowing demand

Mortgage rates hit a yearly high last week and even though housing demand is still positive year over year, it is slowing down, just not in a big way yet. Typically, in the past few years, when mor...

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Berkshire completes Taylor Morrison deal valued at $8.5B enterprise value

Berkshire Hathaway has completed its acquisition of Taylor Morrison Home Corp. in a cash deal that values the Arizona-based homebuilder at about $6.8 billion in equity and $8.5 billion in enterpris...

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Deed theft remains a growing threat for seniors, Black homeowners

For generations, real estate has been the primary vehicle for building intergenerational wealth in America. But for older adults and Black homeowners, that vehicle has also made them a t...

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Headwaters Group Expanding Beyond Active Adult Into Full-Service Senior Living

Four years ago, Ben Burke launched Headwaters Group with a plan to develop active adult communities. Now, in anticipation of growing demand for senior living, the company is broadening i...

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Don’t fall for a fake foreclosure crisis

Recently, the foreclosure data showed a 21% year-over-year gain, and the floodgates of doom porn were flung wide open, with people marketing an impending home-price crash because they say so many A...

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Capitol Seniors Housing Sells Four-Property Portfolio to Welltower

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Capitol Seniors Housing (CSH) has completed the sale of a four-property seniors housing portfolio located in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and metro Chicago. Welltower acquired the co...

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Solo Agers Are Driving, Defining Seniors Housing Demand, Says Berkadia White Paper

NEW YORK CITY — Solo agers are contributing to the heightened demand for seniors housing, says a new Berkadia white paper composed by Ezekiel Duprey, a lead research analyst at the company. ...

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Miami Realtors + RWorld expands into Treasure Coast with new merger

Miami Realtors + RWorld has completed its second merger in just over two months, joining with Martin County Realtors of the Treasure Coast to create a single association and multiple listing (MLS) ...

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Ziegler Underwrites $304.2M Bond Financing for Campus Expansion in Connecticut

GROTON, Conn. — Specialty investment bank Ziegler has closed a $304.2 million bond financing to fund a senior living campus expansion in Groton in southeastern Connecticut. Ziegler served as the un...

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DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards: Krista Zvoch, RDN, Director of Nutrition, StoryPoint Group

Krista Zvoch, RDN, Director of Nutrition at StoryPoint Group, has been named a member of the DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards Class of 2026 by Senior Housing News. As an Ele...

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Why homebuilders aren’t building more homes

Today, the new home sales data perfectly explains why housing permits are near cycle lows and why we can’t get any traction on building more homes in America, as we have been basically stuck in one...

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