Housing

California-based LenderMac to acquire Direct Mortgage

Cypress, California-based LenderMac Holdco LLC has agreed to acquire Direct Mortgage Corp. in a move aimed at expanding its geographic footprint and building a multichannel mortgage platform, the c...

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Realtor.com CEO Damian Eales on portal strategy and MLS ties

The real estate listing portal space has generated its fair share of headlines over the last several months. While Zillow, Homes.com and Redfin have been stealing most of the spotlight, Realtor.com...

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Builders engineer payments, not prices — LGI results highlight why

We intended to dig into LGI Homes’ fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings last week. Then the National Association of Home Builders’ International Builders’ Show happened in Orlando...

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Why Silverado’s New CEO Thinks Memory Care Must ‘Be Bold’ to Serve New Customers

Memory care providers today must take bold approaches to develop the next generation of new leadership and serve the incoming baby boomer generation. That’s according to Silverado CEO Desig...

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Diversified Healthcare Trust ‘Substantially Done’ With SHOP Sales, Plans to Reinvest in Portfolio

Diversified Healthcare Trust (NASDAQ: DHC) is “substantially done” with its community sales after offloading more properties in the fourth quarter of 2025. Now, the company is redeploying those fun...

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Residential Assisted Living Operator Harmony Homes Inks Deal With 55+ Developer With Growth Planned

Residential assisted living operator Harmony Homes continues to grow in 2026, and the company is partnering with a developer to add homes within a broader age-restricted 55+ development. In...

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Case-Shiller data shows real home price returns turned negative in 2025

Annual home price growth continued to cool at the end of 2025, according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller Index released on Tuesday. The national home price index came in at a reading o...

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Optimal Blue launches AI-powered forecasting tool for mortgage capital markets

Optimal Blue on Tuesday announced the launch of Virtual Economist, an artificial intelligence-powered forecasting tool designed for leaders in mortgage capital markets. The company unveiled the too...

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Opendoor returns to mortgages with beta launch

iBuyer Opendoor is rolling out a new mortgage product to a limited group of users, marking a return to home financing. CEO Kaz Nejatian told analysts during the company’s earnings call ...

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Click n’ Close hires Rachel Fatino to lead correspondent ops

Multi-state mortgage lender Click n’ Close announced on Tuesday that it has hired mortgage industry veteran Rachel Fatino as director of correspondent operations. In the role, Fatino wil...

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Better taps tokenized funding to mortgage originations

Better Home & Finance Holding Company, the parent of Better.com, has struck a deal with crypto-focused venture capital firm Framework Ventures to unlock up to $500 million in credit by integrat...

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Judge recommends dropping CT Realtors, Smart MLS, WeSERV from Zea suit

A magistrate judge in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, Fla., is recommending that the court dismiss Connecticut-based Connecticut Association of Realtors (CT Realtors) and Smart MLS, as well...

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Where will mortgage rates go after Trump’s State of the Union address?

President Donald Trump will speak to the nation Tuesday night in the annual State of the Union address. While much of it will focus on broad economic issues and the simmering conflict in the Middle...

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United Real Estate launches BullseyeAI platform

United Real Estate is stepping into the brokerage AI arms race. The company has launched BullseyeAI, an AI-power technology suite and proprietary platform that is integrated with United’s existing ...

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Trump weighs federal retirement plan option ahead of State of the Union

The Trump administration is exploring options to create a retirement savings plan for workers who don’t have access to an employer-sponsored account. The move would not require action by Congress, ...

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Scaling with precision: Ryan Kearns on leadership, leverage and building a high-performance brokerage

Each year, HousingWire’s Rising Stars award recognizes housing professionals ages 40 and under who are driving measurable results across mortgage, real estate and homebuilding. But the real story o...

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Real Brokerage adds RealTrends Verified Haley Garcia team in The Woodlands

The Real Brokerage is strengthening its presence in the luxury housing market of The Woodlands, Texas. The firm announced Tuesday that Haley Garcia and her five agent team Garcia Real Estate Group ...

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Georgia lawmakers revive push for LIHTC property tax protection

Georgia affordable housing developers revived an effort to amend the state constitution to shield their properties from steep property tax hikes. State Rep. Shaw Blackmon, chairman of th...

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Houlihan Lawrence hires 3 RealTrends-ranked agents in NYC push

Houlihan Lawrence is strengthening its presence in Yonkers, New York, with the addition of eight new agents, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Among these additions is the Vision ...

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McShane Completes Construction of 80-Unit Affordable Housing Community in Metro Atlanta

UNION CITY, Ga. — McShane Construction Co. has completed work on Crossing Pointe, a new affordable seniors housing community located in Union City, roughly 20 miles southwest of downtown Atlanta. ...

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Turbo-charging development returns with The Launch Bond

In land development, timing isn’t just important — it’s everything. The difference between a project that delivers strong returns and one that merely gets by often comes down to how efficiently cap...

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