U.S. homeowners made an average profit of 49.9% on single-family home and condominium sales in the third quarter of 2025, according to ATTOM’s newest U.S. Home Sales Report. That’s up slightly from 49.3% in the second quarter but down from the 55.4% margin seen in the third quarter of last year. Sel

Philadelphia-based Incenter Lender Services, which works with nonbank and depository mortgage lenders across the country, on Thursday announced the launch of the Incenter CRA Exchange Platform. The tool is billed as a unique, one-stop “matchmaking solution” for sellers of loans made under the Commun

WFG National Title Insurance Co. — a subsidiary of Williston Financial Group — on Thursday announced its expansion into New Mexico. “WFG continues to grow in ways that strengthen our national footprint while staying true to our mission of improving the real estate process for everyone involved,” sai

Leadership in mortgage origination is changing alongside shifting market conditions — but that’s a good thing, according to a panel of senior mortgage executives at The Sales Mastery event powered by Momentum Builder in Dallas this week. Bill Hart, national leadership coach at Movement Mortgage, Nat

In North Carolina, real estate agents are called brokers, and offices are managed by a broker-in-charge. To earn your license, you must complete 75 hours of prelicensing education, available online or in person through state-approved schools. We’ve evaluated dozens of courses to pinpoint the best re

Top-performing New York City agent and team leader Glenn Davis is joining SERHANT. where he will be forming a new team, The New York Collaborative.  Davis is joining SERHANT. from Douglas Elliman, where he was a founding partner of Noble Black and Partners. In 2024, Noble Black and Partners closed $

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is seeking public feedback on its proposed strategic plan for 2026–2030, the agency announced Wednesday. The document, described as “consistent with its statutory requirements and President Trump’s executive orders,” marks a sharp shift from the Biden-era pl

A Cleveland woman says her late mother’s home was sold more than a decade after her death through a forged property deed — one of a growing number of real estate fraud cases nationwide. Tangie Harris learned earlier this year that her mother, Priscilla Harris Norris, who died in 2014, appeared to ha

Mortgage applications for new homes dipped in September from the previous month but remained higher than last year’s levels, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)’s Builder Application Survey released Thursday. The data offers a snapshot of housing demand at a time when market watchers

Executives from Longbridge Financial gathered last week at the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA)’s Annual Meeting to discuss the company’s suite of technology tools and lending products aimed at helping wholesale reverse mortgage partners grow their businesses and better serve ol

Valuation management form Atlas VMS has appointed Trey Cole as vice president of client engagement for its AIM-Port Platform Solutions Division. In his new role, Cole will focus on strengthening customer relationships, expanding client-focused initiatives and promoting adoption of the AIM-Port platf

loanDepot is accusing West Capital Lending (WCL) of hiring hundreds of loan originators as independent contractors and paying them revenue splits — practices that loanDepot claims are illegal and enabled WCL to become one of the largest mortgage brokerages in the country in just three years. The len

Friday Harbor, an AI-powered platform that helps loan officers build compliant loan files in real time, announced this week that its AI Originator Assistant can now assess loans against lender and investor overlays in addition to standard program guidelines. The update aims to give lenders greater c

In Wilmington, North Carolina’s tight housing market — where infill land is scarce and prices have climbed sharply — Jeffrey and Becky Maynard of Our House Your Home LLC are finding creative ways to keep their mission of affordable family housing alive. What began a decade ago as a small real estate

In August 2024, as many in the real estate industry prepared for the terms of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement agreement to go into effect, industry professionals began wondering how agents would handle breached buyer agency agreements and if lawsuits would e

Third-quarter earnings for big banks Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup Inc. surpassed investor expectations on Tuesday, marking Wall Street’s resilience during fickle economic times. Wells Fargo’s revenue for Q3 2025 reached $21.43 billion, compared to an expected $21.14 billion. As a result