“Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.” — Henry David Thoreau, Walden. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said on 3.24.2026 that from January

The HousingWire Mortgage Rankings launched this week to give the housing industry a standardized, transaction-based view of origination activity across the country. The rankings are powered by InGenius data and they’re built on recorded mortgage transactions, not submissions or self-reported numbers

Housing demand is still holding up on a year over year basis, even as mortgage rates sit at 6.64%, a level that has historically marked a key dividing line for demand. That is the backdrop Logan Mohtashami laid out in this week’s Housing Market Tracker, where he wrote that “we are at a key inflectio

I love Jerusalem Demsas’ “Housing Breaks People’s Brains” article in The Atlantic from November 2022. For me, it’s a trailhead for understanding why efforts and solutions aimed at the housing access and attainability crisis for so many Americans often short-circuit and fizzle before they can fix any

When UWM Holdings Corp. lost its bid last week to acquire Two Harbors Investment Corp. (TWO), upstaged by an offer from rival CrossCountry Intermediate HoldCo, analysts were not entirely surprised. “It was such a wild turn of events,” said Eric Hagen, an analyst at BTIG. “But we were not surprised t

Fourteen months after California’s Palisades wildfires destroyed nearly 5,900 homes, the first fully rebuilt residence has come to market, offering the clearest pricing test yet for post-fire demand. The newly built contemporary home — listed at just under $7.5 million — comes after the original was

In today’s challenging homebuilding environment, builders are often presented with a lesser-of-evils choice: maintain a strong sales pace at the expense of slimmer margins, or sacrifice market share in favor of higher profitability.  Multi-regional private homebuilding powerhouse Ashton Woods chose

Detroit-based Rocket Companies this week moved to dismiss a lawsuit alleging violations of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), arguing that plaintiffs failed to demonstrate injury, relied on claims beyond the one-year statute of limitations and did not sufficiently plead unjust enrich

When it comes to implementing AI into business workflows, many agents and brokers typically consider things like backend office work, lead, CRM and email management, listing description drafting and marketing collateral creation. But Gary Ashton and Debra Beagle, the broker-owners of REMAX Advantage

Gregory S. Richardson has joined Virginia-based Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group as chief revenue officer, the company announced Thursday. In his new role, Richardson will lead enterprise revenue strategy and alignment across production, capital markets, product development and institutional investor rel

California lawmakers are weighing bills that would reduce regulatory barriers to revive condominium construction, which has dropped significantly from its peak in the years before the Great Recession. Assembly Bill 1406 would raise the state’s liquidated-damages limit on new condominium sales from 3

All eyes are on Lennar’s forthcoming 10-K filing, maybe as soon as Thursday, as a wave of investor questions converges around one central issue: How much financial risk – recognized or not – sits inside the company’s land-light strategy? In recent days, that question has pitched from a routine analy

The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule that would make it easier for retirement plan sponsors to include alternative investments — such as private equity, private credit, real estate and cryptocurrency — in workers’ 401(k) plans while reducing regulatory burdens and the threat of lawsuits.

Jarret Coleman is not on social media posting about interest rate moves or explaining mortgage concepts to the public — a model successfully adopted by some of his peers. Instead, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based loan officer for US Bank takes a more traditional approach to his business. “I started

The U.S. housing market is facing unprecedented shifts as immigration enforcement tightens, domestic migration patterns evolve and consumer confidence sours, according to a Tuesday webinar hosted by John Burns Research & Consulting (JBRC). The presentation, “The State of US Demographics and Consumer

Jason Abrams moves to new Keller Williams role as chief industry and strategy officer. Keller Williams Realty has named Abrams, a longtime executive and educator, as chief industry and strategy officer, charged with the company’s global learning platform and enterprise-wide initiatives, the company

Mortgage rates continued to rise this week, placing more strain on a 2026 spring housing market that was expected to be robust but is now fighting an uphill battle against a slowing economy. Mortgage News Daily reported Monday that 30-year fixed rates averaged 6.55%. That was up 6 basis points from

ERA Real Estate has quietly transformed mergers and acquisitions (M&A) from a tactical growth tool into a pillar of franchise recruitment strategy — closing 24 deals worth more than $1.5 billion in sales volume across 2024 and 2025. Many of these deals were initiated not by legacy franchisees but by

Single-family home construction declined across every major geography in the second half of 2025 except for sparsely populated micro counties, according to the latest Home Building Geography Index (HBGI) from the National Association of Home Builders. The HBGI, released March 30 and delayed by last