Housing

We are not ready for the next housing downturn

The pandemic wrought financial havoc across the economy, but its impact on the housing market was significantly reduced due to a whole-of-government response that enabled millions of families to st...

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Is the Zestimate era coming to an end?

For nearly two decades, consumers have had the ability to answer one of life’s biggest financial questions almost instantly: “What is my home worth?” Today, millions of homeowners monito...

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How high can mortgage rates go with Iran conflict 2.0?

It’s Monday and the Iran conflict looks like it will hit its 10th day straight of renewed missile and drone attacks. Oil prices are up a smidge today and the question now is: how much higher can mo...

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AD Mortgage flags condo reserve rules in FHFA letter

AD Mortgage has launched a public policy initiative aimed at increasing its engagement with federal and state policymakers on housing finance issues, beginning with recommendations to the Federal H...

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Active Adult Average Occupancy Nears 93% as New Growth Stalls

Average active adult occupancy increased 1.4 percentage points to 92.6% in the second quarter of 2026, 0.3 percentage points higher than the same period last year, according to a new analysis by NI...

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Compass moves from AI content creation to AI task execution in Home Platform

Compass International Holdings has introduced AI Assistant, a conversational agent embedded across its new Home Platform that lets real estate professionals describe what they want to do and have t...

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Movers and Shakers: Trinity Health PACE Welcomes Medical Leader; Ingleside Community Takes Co-Leader Approach

Movers & Shakers is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Job Board. Browse and apply to management and executive senior living jobs and positions from leading professional firms serving th...

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M/I, Meritage team up to fund $7.6M bridge to growth in a Texas town

A new public-private partnership in Central Texas solves for a common stumbling block for homebuilders, who face having to balance home price affordability with the public infrastructure investment...

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The Holiday acquisition is about Daiwa House’s next decade

The long game Was never about one Acquisition Viewed through a sharply narrowed lens of a single transaction, Holiday Builders adds another respected, cycle-tested, deeply regionally inv...

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How Zillow agent rankings shape AI recommendations

The industry has spent years scrutinizing Zillow’s lead business, and rightly so. Premier Agent’s ZIP-code auction and the “Contact Agent” routing that sends buyers to agent advertisers rather than...

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Mortgage volumes point to bank share gains in Q2

Large banks posted double-digit mortgage volume growth in the second quarter of 2026 as a group, far outpacing industry forecasts and signaling that depositaries may be taking back some share from ...

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Americans trust financial advice but struggle to feel ready for retirement

Despite widespread confidence in employer-provided financial advisors and steady optimism about retiring on time, many Americans remain uncertain about whether they will be financially prepared for...

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Corcoran SRG Residential expands Long Island footprint

Corcoran SRG Residential has opened a new office in Merrick, New York, expanding its presence across Nassau and western Suffolk counties. The 2,600-square-foot office at 196 Merrick Roa...

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FirstTeam Real Estate opens Monterey office on California Central Coast

FirstTeam Real Estate has expanded to California’s Central Coast with a new community office in Monterey led by broker-owner Amber Russell of Over the Moon Realty, Inc., the company announced on Mo...

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Why your next open house should start with the neighbors

Let me ask you something. When was the last time you treated an open house like a one-day event instead of what it actually is: a long-term investment in the street it sits on? Most agen...

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The housing market not normalizing, as affordability failure persists

We are not in a “normalizing” housing market. We are in an affordability crisis that has learned to wear a better suit. Inventory is up in some places. Days on market are longer. Sellers are a litt...

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Starter home inventory trails 2019 by 300,000 listings, per new data

The U.S. starter home market remains short roughly 300,000 listings under $350,000 compared to 2019, and the income needed to buy an entry-level home has jumped more than 80% over that period, acco...

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Behind closed doors: The next phase of Compass’s Code of Ethics complaints against Zillow

As the National Association of Realtors (NAR) frequently stresses, one of the main things differentiating a real estate licensee from a Realtor is the Code of Ethics that Realtors are required to a...

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Windermere names Diana Wall chief growth officer

Windermere Real Estate has created the role of chief growth officer and hired longtime industry executive Diana Wall to lead expansion across the company’s independent brokerage platform, the firm ...

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NEXA Lending and former partner Mat Grella end legal fight

NEXA Lending CEO Mike Kortas said he has reached a global settlement with former business partner Mat Grella, ending a years-long legal battle over the ownership and control of the brokerage and se...

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Finance of America’s Graham Fleming on HECM demand, second liens and Onity deal

Finance of America (FOA) continues to be one of the main faces of the reverse mortgage industry. Last year, FOA was No. 2 nationally for Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements, and the...

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