Housing

Retirement planning faces longevity risk as Americans live longer

Advancements in health care mean that Americans are living longer than ever. Data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that U.S. residents born in 2024 have an average life expectan...

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Northeast gains leverage as Sun Belt markets slow

The U.S. housing market is entering spring with improving demand and rising supply, but the balance of power is shifting at the metro level. Weekly pending home sales returned to year-ov...

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Addy AI integrates with ICE Encompass for loan officer workflows

Addy AI, a loan officer workflow platform, announced this week a partnership with ICE Mortgage Technology to integrate with the Encompass loan origination system. The integration, which ...

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Brown Harris Stevens adds Corcoran agent Debbie Baum

Veteran real estate agent Debbie Baum is making the move to Brown Harris Stevens from Corcoran, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Baum has more than 23 years of experience serv...

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ASHA Plans More Growth for Referral Site Where You Live Matters in 2026

The American Seniors Housing Association’s senior living education and referral platform, Where You Live Matters, has added thousands of communities to its database. Now, the site and ASHA are taki...

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Senior Care Has Accounted for Nearly a Quarter of Health Care Bankruptcies Since 2019

Eighty-one: That is the number of senior care Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases between 2019 and 2025. All told, those cases made up about 24% of all health care bankruptcies since then. That’s ac...

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LTC Properties Seeks Aggressive SHOP Growth in 2026 After Portfolio Pivot

LTC Properties (NYSE: LTC) plans to make $600 million in acquisitions by the mid-point of this year as the company continues to grow its senior housing operating portfolio. Late in 2024,...

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How one Florida community transformed hurricane resilience into record sales

Southwest Florida was tagged by homebuilding business strategists and observers as one of the nation’s more difficult and listless markets in 2025. On the other hand, Babcock Ranch – a mast...

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Housing leaders say Trump’s plan must go deeper than lower mortgage rates

President Donald Trump highlighted taxes, inflation and trade in his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, but he made only a passing reference to housing, leaving affordability largely un...

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The CFO skill set homebuilding founders too often underestimate

I’ve worked in a variety of capacities in and around home building and land development for 40 years (argh). One constant over the years has been the undervaluing of Chief Financial Officers. ...

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REMAX brokers: How repeatable systems, not lofty goals, are driving brokerage growth

Real estate broker-owners looking to grow in a shifting market are focusing less on lofty goals and more on repeatable systems — from intentional recruiting to AI-powered operations and culture-dri...

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UWM originations rise 17% to $163B as refi wave lifts 2025 volume

United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) closed $163.4 billion in mortgages in 2025, up 17% from 2024, as lower rates fueled a refinancing rebound. The company also invested heavily to strengthen its servic...

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eXp’s quiet flex: Higher productivity in a shrinking agent market

For eXp World Holdings, despite only a modest increase in worldwide agent count in 2025 to 83,060 agents up from 82,980 a year ago, executives see the firm’s agent numbers as a massive highlight in...

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Private builders’ survival guide to compete with public homebuilders

The playing field in homebuilding – as capital-driven as the business is – has tilted in favor of publicly traded firms for years. Now, perhaps more than ever, private builders looking to survive, ...

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Beyond pocket listings: How states are filling real estate’s regulatory void

Two more states — Illinois and Hawaii — have now joined the push to restrict private residential listings, signaling that Wisconsin’s newly enacted transparency law and Washington’s advancing legis...

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Columbia Residential, Decatur Housing Open 80-Unit Affordable Housing Community in Metro Atlanta

DECATUR, Ga. — Columbia Residential and Decatur Housing have opened The Link at Columbia Senior Residences, a new affordable seniors housing development in Decatur, roughly seven miles outside down...

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Mortgage applications rise slightly as rates move closer to 6%

Mortgage applications increased 0.4% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)’s weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending Feb. 20. O...

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Rechat integrates with Canva to streamline listing marketing

Rechat announced an integration with Canva that allows listing data to flow directly into Canva’s design tools. Under the partnership, Rechat will supply Canva with listing information —...

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Trump State of the Union offers few housing details

President Donald Trump delivered the annual State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night and touched on a wide variety of economic topics. But he barely mentioned ways to make housing mo...

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Why eNotes are moving from optional to operational

For years, electronic promissory notes occupied an awkward middle ground in mortgage lending. The concept was sound, the infrastructure was in place, and early adopters demonstrated that the model ...

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Let’s be real. We can do better when it comes to using AI in marketing.

So, you finally discovered ChatGPT, Claude or whatever shiny AI toy your nephew told you about. Congrats! You’re officially part of the future of marketing! Ok. Not really. Not the way y...

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