Housing

LCS Completes Previously Announced Acquisition of Vi

DES MOINE, Iowa — LCS has closed its merger agreement to acquire Vi. The acquisition, which was originally announced in September 2025, creates a combined company with a portfolio of roughly 130 co...

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Streamline Clinical Workflows in Seniors Housing with Intelligent Technology

Navigating complex, siloed operating systems to update residents’ medical data is a common source of frustration for seniors housing portfolios. At Leisure Care, one of the nation’s largest private...

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Compass agent launches Family Office Team, expands advisory model

A new advisory group focused on high-net-worth real estate clients has launched within Compass, expanding an existing network designed to serve family offices and multi-generational wealth portfoli...

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April HMBS issuance rises to $525 million, HECM dips

U.S. reverse mortgage endorsements declined slightly in April as proprietary products continued to gain traction in parts of the market, according to data released on May 1 by Reverse Market Insigh...

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eLEND hires Roman Ramora as chief technology and innovation officer

Roman Ramora has joined eLEND as chief technology and innovation officer, moving into the newly expanded role effective May 4, 2026. In the C-suite position, Ramora will lead eLEND’s tec...

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Stanley Martin closes on its $221M United Homes acquisition

Stanley Martin Homes announced on Monday that its $221 million, all-cash acquisition of United Homes Group Inc. had closed, immediately scaling its presence in several of the Southeast’s fastest-gr...

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Century 21’s Mike Miedler: Recruiting Latino talent is a growth strategy, not a diversity talking point

Photo by AJ Canaria for HousingWire The Gathering Right now, the real estate industry is consumed by consolidation, capital and the next big brokerage model. Century 21 CEO Mike Miedler ...

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How real estate agent Deba Douglas turned buyer education into a 100-transaction business

After 16 years in education, Deba Douglas walked away from the classroom because she saw a different kind of learning gap. Today, the former high school and middle school principal runs...

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Improving Operational Conditions Lead to Fewer CCRC Defaults in 2026

Non-profit continuing care retirement communities are defaulting on their credit lines at a lower rate than in the past, according to a new report from Ziegler. Non-profit CCRCs have not...

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Unlock CEO Jim Riccitelli says home equity investments need ‘purpose-built regulation’

It’s no secret that older Americans have built record levels of housing wealth. And while reverse mortgage companies devote time and energy tapping into this market, they also face rising competiti...

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Chase offers limited-time mortgage rate discount in May

Chase Home Lending is offering a limited-time mortgage rate promotion for homebuyers and homeowners nationwide, with discounted rates available from May 4-17, the company announced Monday. ...

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Data center hyper growth is colliding with housing development

Artificial intelligence is often framed as a labor story. Which jobs will it eliminate? How quickly will it scale? Will entire industries be rewritten overnight? That framing overlooks a...

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Veterans United survey finds homebuyers overestimate credit score and down payment

Many prospective homebuyers are sitting on the sidelines unnecessarily because they overestimate the credit scores, down payments and rate conditions needed to qualify for a mortgage, according to ...

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TWO rebuffs UWM revised bid over financing, credibility risks

A revised proposal from UWM Holdings Corporation to acquire Two Harbors Investment Corp. was formally rejected by the seller’s board of directors, citing “financing, closing, business and credibili...

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Recruiting Insight updates belief stack manual for recruiting

Recruiting Insight has released the second edition of “Updating Your Belief Stack: The Comprehensive Manual,” a mindset-focused guide aimed at helping real estate brokerage leaders improve recruiti...

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‘Win-Win-Win’: LCS, Vi Execute Planned Merger, Creating 130-Community Company

The combination of LCS and Vi into one company is complete. With the acquisition of Vi, LCS now manages 130 communities in 29 states. All told, the company employs 27,000 people who help sup...

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Preserve manufactured housing communities by strengthening models that sustain them

Congress stands at the crossroads of enacting the “21st Century Road to Housing Act.” A key priority of this bill is manufactured housing – and manufactured housing communities – with the objectiv...

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When sentiment breaks: What consumer confidence is telling us about recession risk and fiscal reality

Nerds are people too Since 1946, economists and others who find themselves alone on Friday nights have studied the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers for indications of consumer att...

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KB Home CFO Robert Dillard to resign this month

KB Home Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert R. “Rob” Dillard will step down from his role effective May 8, 2026, the Los Angeles-based homebuilder disclosed in a Form 8-K fi...

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Mortgage spreads are the only thing keeping rates under 7%

Mortgage spreads are once again the unsung hero for housing in 2026 because they are the sole reason why mortgage rates have been under 6.65% the entire year! Last week, the benefits of mortgage sp...

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Nobody talks about why the friendliest neighbors are often the loneliest people on the block, and it isn’t that they’re hiding it, it’s that warmth toward strangers is sometimes the only outlet left when the people you love stopped asking how you are

The friendliest person on your block, the one who waves from across the street and remembers your dog’s name and asks about your mother’s surgery, may be lonelier than the neighbor who barely makes...

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