Housing

Mortgage affordability improves in June as median payment slips to $2,191

Homebuyer affordability improved slightly in June as the national median payment on new purchase mortgage applications fell to $2,191, down from $2,198 in May, according to the Mortgage Bankers Ass...

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Voices: Carmen Fronczak, Chief Revenue Officer, Friendship Village Senior Services, and President of FV Ventures

This article is sponsored by FV Ventures. For many older adults, the need for support begins well before a move into senior living ever feels necessary. That creates a major opportunity for operato...

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Better appoints Orange Capital founder Daniel Lewis to board of directors

Daniel Lewis, founder and managing partner of hedge fund Orange Capital, has joined the board of Better Home & Finance Holding Co., replacing outgoing director David Barse, the company announce...

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Elite International Realty expands crypto real estate services

Elite International Realty has partnered with cryptocurrency escrow provider CryptEscrow to expand its crypto real estate capabilities, responding to growing demand from luxury and international bu...

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Optimal Blue integrates VantageScore 4.0 into pricing, hedging and trading workflows

VantageScore 4.0, the credit scoring model that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are transitioning to for agency mortgages, is now integrated into Optimal Blue’s end-to-end capital markets platform, the ...

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Chris Gallo enters guilty plea in federal mortgage fraud case

Christopher Gallo, once one of the nation’s top mortgage loan officers, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in a federal court in New Jersey, according to court filings reviewed b...

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Florida developer raises $175M to expand multifamily pipeline

Miami multifamily developer and investor Neology Group has raised $175 million in capital to prepare for a next new construction wave in Florida and the Southeast as the national building pipeline ...

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Boxabl valuation at $3.5 billion tests housing fundamentals

Boxabl has one of the most compelling stories in housing. It has a highly recognizable product, a viral consumer brand and an ambitious pitch: use factory production to build homes faste...

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Side opens SideOS to brokerages seeking centralized ops

SideOS, the operating platform that runs the back offices of more than 600 real estate companies, is now available to large independent and franchise-affiliated brokerages that want to keep their o...

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Canopy MLS taps CTO Steve Byrd as next CEO

Steve Byrd is moving from vice president and chief technology officer to chief executive officer at Canopy MLS, effective Aug. 1, according to an announcement on Wednesday. The organiza...

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The hidden housing multiplier: Why one better buyer match can unlock the next listing

Everyone agrees that housing has a supply problem. But the industry measures supply mainly by counting units and listings, while nearly everyone surrounding a housing transaction earns r...

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You can recruit talent, but you have to build culture

People matter in the title and real estate settlement service business. Relationships matter. Experience matters. A strong escrow officer or title professional can move revenue and change how a cus...

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America at 250: Property rights remain the foundation of the American dream

George Washington is credited with saying, “Freedom and property rights are inseparable. You can’t have one without the other.” As America reflects on 250 years of independence, the sentiment feels...

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Here’s another example of how proprietary loans are driving growth for the reverse mortgage market

Proprietary reverse mortgages, rather than government-insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs), are driving the reverse mortgage industry’s recent growth, according to an analysis of Home M...

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Cloze unveils app to capture, organize open house leads

Cloze has introduced an Open House app for its Enterprise customers that automatically captures visitor information at property showings and feeds it into the company’s customer relationship manage...

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Homes.com helps drive CoStar to first profitable residential quarter

CoStar Group reported an 18% year-over-year revenue increase for the second quarter ended June 30 — reaching $925 million compared to $781 million in the same period last year. Leaders s...

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How Senior Living Operators Fall-Detection Tech to Avoid ER Visits, ‘Blind Spots’

Resident fall detection systems were once not common in senior living. Today, a growing number of operators are deploying these tools in their communities to correct an industry “blind spot.” ...

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Hawks Lorie Logan and Beth Hammack run the Fed for now

Today the Federal Reserve decided not to hike rates, but the hawks have moved their chess pieces: three Fed members wanted to hike rates at this meeting, which means September is in play for the fi...

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Top Four Operators Hold Their Positions as Argentum Releases Largest Operator List

Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD), Discovery Senior Living, LCS and Erickson Senior Living have maintained their respective positions as the four largest senior living operators in the industry, ...

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Pennymac profit drops in Q2 as rates bite, layoffs follow

PennyMac Financial Services on Wednesday reported second-quarter 2026 net income of $22 million, down 84% from a year earlier and sharply lower than its first-quarter net income of $82.3 million, a...

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Constant Contact launches marketing platform for real estate

Constant Contact has launched Constant Contact for Real Estate, a marketing platform that the firm said is designed for brokerages, franchises, associations, MLSs and agents that layers enterprise ...

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