Housing

Logan Finance rolls out new product tier for high-balance non-QMs

Logan Finance Corp. announced Monday that it has launched a new premium tier within its Open Road product series aimed at borrowers seeking higher loan amounts than those typically offered through ...

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Real Brokerage adds top San Diego agent Jason Cassity as chief growth officer

Jason Cassity is moving onto the executive team at The Real Brokerage from a top-producing agent and team leader role in San Diego, as the cloud brokerage creates a new chief growth officer positio...

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Newrez rolls out TitlePass program, waiving lender title insurance on some refis

Multichannel mortgage lender Newrez has launched Newrez TitlePass for use in its wholesale channel, giving mortgage brokers a way to waive the lender title insurance requirement on certain refinanc...

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Corcoran Reverie, Housify form luxury valuation partnership

Florida-based Corcoran Reverie has announced an exclusive partnership with property valuation and analytics platform Housify. The platform draws on more than 15 years of transactional da...

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As brokerage giants merge, Real Estate One bets on the power of local platforms

During a recent conversation about industry consolidation at Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE)’s annual event, Dan Elsea paused to reflect on the growth of his company. There w...

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RezeLink AI platform aims to accelerate title search workflows

Rezervology and Titl have announced the launch of RezeLink, an artificial intelligence (AI) solution designed to streamline and accelerate title search workflows. The platform will debut...

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How will rising oil prices impact the U.S. housing market?

As we enter another week of the Iran conflict, the question now is what will this do to the economy, but for this article, we want to focus specifically on what this conflict means for the U.S. hou...

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Celink’s Ryan LaRose on reverse mortgage servicing scale pressures, structural growth limits

Editor’s note: Welcome to the third installment of the Monday Morning Q&A from HousingWire’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD). Each Monday morning, the RMD newsletter will feature an in-depth inter...

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Homes.com, Zillow and the affordability stakes of who controls the listing marketplace

President Trump has made housing affordability the centerpiece of his domestic economic agenda, and for good reason. After four years of Biden-era inflation that priced millions of young families o...

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Zillow wins a battle, but market rhythm is at stake

There’s been a lot of noise in the Zillow vs. Compass lawsuit. Injunctions. Antitrust claims. State legislation. It sounds like a 5th grade band – there’s a lot going on there. Being a ...

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loanDepot is back in the wholesale channel

loanDepot is reentering the wholesale channel four years after formally exiting the segment, the company announced Monday. The move was first anticipated in August by HousingWire.Dan Peña, presiden...

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Survey reveals demand uncertainty is changing 2026 homebuilding strategy

Demand uncertainty has emerged as the defining issue for U.S. homebuilders heading into 2026. According to Builder Advisor Group’s 2026 U.S. Homebuilder Executive Outlook Survey, 58% of the 126 bui...

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Mortgage originations rise to three-year high in Q4 behind refi surge

Mortgage origination activity rose sharply in the fourth quarter as a jump in refinancing activity pushed lending to its highest level in more than three years, according to ICE Mortgage Technology...

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Anthony Casa on UMortgage’s new broker model empowering loan originators

UMortgage has rolled out a broker model designed to give loan originators more autonomy, higher earning potential, and access to a proprietary technology platform. Anthony Casa, President & CEO...

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The ANTM Trap: When smart leaders with good intentions still fail the IRL ethics test

In the feast or famine world of real estate, it can be easy to myopically focus on the bottom line (closing the deal and your commission). But a recent deep dive into a seemingly unrelated pop cult...

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Local fees trap state housing affordability reforms in a vicious circle

Procedural and zoning barriers are proving to be only the beginning of the gauntlet for adding new ground-up residential supply to America’s housing-starved communities. While removing r...

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Housing demand is up and inventory is down, even with Iran conflict

In the crazy world of economics, with all the drama last week, it was a pretty normal housing week. Housing data showed year-over-year growth, weekly pending home sales rose, inventory declined sli...

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Ninja Selling’s Larry Kendall: Control the habits, not the headlines

Real estate agents and brokers are bombarded daily with headlines predicting the industry’s next upheaval. Let it go, says Larry Kendall, founder of Ninja Selling, because most of that noise sits f...

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Angel Oak’s Tom Hutchens on new growth path for non-QMs as rates ease

When mortgage rates stayed higher for longer over the past few years, originators increasingly turned their attention to nonqualified mortgages (non-QMs). But that resurgence may not lose momentum ...

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The condo queen: How a Miami broker closes $1B+ a year

On paper, Maile Aguila’s story reads like a fairy-tale version of the American dream: After 30 years of hard work, a daughter of 1960s Cuban exiles sells $1 billion worth of Miami condos in a singl...

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Negative jobs report keeps mortgage rates calm amid surging oil prices

Oil prices are surging and mortgage rates are roughly flat so far today. It has been a crazy day in the bond market: the 10-year yield first went lower after the jobs report, then Trump posted that...

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