Housing

JPMorgan Chase plots $750B housing push to fund 1M affordable units

JPMorgan Chase plans to deploy more than $750 billion for housing through 2035, including financing for 1 million affordable units and help for 500,000 buyers to purchase homes. The comm...

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Supreme Lending’s John Luddy says reverse mortgages are better positioned than ever

Longtime reverse mortgage professional John Luddy says that despite the noise around high interest rates and equity-locked borrowers, the reverse market is in its strongest position yet. ...

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Kelley Blue Book Homes rolls out consumer home valuations

Kelley Blue Book Homes has launched a consumer-facing home valuation platform in 11 states, with a nationwide rollout targeted by early 2027, the company announced Monday. The product is...

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Adwerx integrates with Canva for real estate digital ads

Adwerx has launched a direct integration with Canva that lets real estate and mortgage professionals move designs into live digital ad campaigns without downloading or reuploading files, the compan...

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Two says one approval still pending in CCM deal, updates stub dividend formula

Two Harbors Investment Corp. has secured required state and agency approvals from all but one state for its planned sale to CrossCountry Intermediate Holdco LLC, which will change the previously es...

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AI is changing what it takes to be a great real estate agent. Here’s what matters now.

For years, becoming a great real estate agent followed a familiar path. You put in the hours, learned your market, built relationships and slowly developed systems that made you more efficient than...

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The housing market defies expectations even with higher rates

Housing demand still showed positive year-over-year growth last week, despite the hawkish Fed, escalation of the Iran conflict, rising mortgage rates and the 10-year yield hitting yearly highs. We ...

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Green Brick seizes a margin edge as a land and product outlier

While many homebuilders battle a gross margin slippery slope from the 20s into the mid-teens, Green Brick Partners is fairly striding against the tide. During the company’s Q2 earnings call...

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AI’s housing impact is strong — but highly localized

Artificial intelligence (AI) and broader tech investment is reshaping broad swaths of the U.S. economy, but its impact on housing is proving far from uniform. HousingWire Data updated July 2...

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Why Senior Living Operators Should Consider Giving Residents More Ownership

This story is part of your SHN+ subscription Senior living operators seek to foster purpose, belonging and community. I think models that give residents more ownership over their living ...

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Senior Living Dealbook: California Clearwater Community Under New Ownership; CFG Finances $1.8B in 2026

Transactions California Clearwater now under new ownership JLL Capital Markets announced it arranged the sale of Clearwater at Riverpark, a 136-unit Class-A independent livi...

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NEXA’s Mike Kortas criticizes loanDepot, pitches LOs to switch companies amid ongoing lawsuit

An ongoing feud between loanDepot and NEXA Lending was brought to light again this week through a social media posst authored by NEXA CEO Mike Kortas, which urges loanDepot loan officers to join NE...

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Every real estate agent has AI now, how sellers spot real expertise

A homeowner recently asked me to review a listing presentation prepared by another real estate agent. It was impressive. The pricing analysis was organized, the marketing plan included video, socia...

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ICE posts strongest quarter for mortgage tech since 2022

Intercontinental Exchange Inc., the operator of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and parent company of ICE Mortgage Technology, reported its strongest quarterly mortgage business performance in f...

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Fed hawks are on the war path, sending mortgage rates higher

Today the 10-year yield hit a yearly high of 4.74% and mortgage rates rose six basis points to 6.83% (as of this writing), as all the Federal Reserve hawks came out to play, and they were not takin...

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How Compass used technology to chart its course to the top

In 2017, Kyle Talbott and his wife Karen Talbott, who make up the Corcoran-brokered Talbott Team, were considering a move to Compass, after talk about the then 5-year-old brokerage’s technology had...

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Who decides where listings show up, Zillow, Compass or the MLS?

The briefs are in. The witnesses are done. A federal judge in Chicago now holds the question the whole industry keeps asking: who controls where a listing gets seen? Here is the part no ruling will...

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Retired judges challenge Tuccori opt-in commission suit settlements

Although a date has been set for a final approval hearing, the real estate brokerages and associations that settled the homebuyer commission lawsuits through the Tuccori suit’s opt-in settlement ma...

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Stop-work orders spread in NYC office-to-residential conversions

Spreading regulatory concern over New York City office-to-residential conversions intensified after two more developments experienced work stoppages due to jobsite issues. Inspectors ful...

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Here’s where the housing market is headed on its way into 2027

How will improving affordability, the ongoing lock-in effect, mortgage rate pressure, and the continued cost advantage of renting over buying shape the housing market outlook for the foreseeable fu...

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Proprietary reverse mortgages are outpacing HECMs. It’s time to raise the bar on fee transparency.

Recently, a woman contacted me after her daughter encouraged her to get a second opinion before closing on a reverse mortgage. She had already chosen a lender, attended reverse mortgage counseling,...

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