Real Estate Blogs
- The silent failure mode: What happens when your AI model quietly gets worse
- Why default servicing breaks at the handoffs
- The examiner never called
- Before you say no: 5 borrower scenarios modern LOs can’t afford to miss
- How agents can vet a referral partner: 10 questions to ask before signing
- Unison faces another class-action lawsuit, this time in North Carolina
- KB Home’ build-to-order pivot pays off, but buyers remain cautious
- Perchwell CEO on landmark MLS shift to next-generation tech
- AI won’t get sued over a bad listing — the agent will
- Hot economic data sends mortgage rates to yearly highs
- Five questions loan officers should ask before preapproving complex income
- AARP lays out six areas of financial health for retirees
- Mortgage rates face several hurdles before they can return to 6%
- Housing boom expected to follow SpaceX Louisiana arrival
- Millrose plans $1 billion bond sale to fund homesite growth
- NextHome large-office model adds 5 former Keller Williams offices
- Why more real estate agents are getting their mortgage loan originator license
- Massachusetts ballot puts lot density up for a vote of the people
- New American Funding promotes Stacy Chevalier to Northwest regional VP
- LoanCare names Amy Jones chief information officer
- Technology is not culture
- Florida’s new law bars zoning discrimination against factory-built homes
- The mortgage industry starts helping borrowers too late
- Never quote your real estate commission by text
- Auction.com taps John Ken as SVP of marketing
- Networking for real estate agents, ask better questions and follow through
- HUD showcase spotlights Cavco chassis-free manufactured home
- Miami Realtors + RWorld forms new education partnership
- First-time homebuyers get help from Airbnb in New York City
- Real estate has a new-agent launch problem, not recruiting
- Will mortgage rates rise to 8% or drop to 6%?
- Realtor.com lead dispute heads to closed-door arbitration after appeal fails
- NIL era brings new wealth — and new buyers — to college housing markets
- Lennar defends even-flow, land banking strategy as risks build
- Hagens Berman seeking plaintiffs for Compass MRED class action
- Zillow-MRED antitrust battle shifts from courtroom to arbitration
- Key Mortgage hires Kevin Christopher as SVP of production
- Better board fight escalates as Vishal Garg selects 3 director candidates
- Zillow names Rikki Tremblay principal accounting officer
- Sidewalk gaps, train counts ignite California SB 79 zoning lawsuits
- The unseen shift in agency pools: How ‘lender choice’ is quietly repricing specified pools
- Gateway First Bank to acquire Colonial Savings
- Settlor integrates with TitleSphere, expands transaction data use
- Taylor Morrison CEO says trust can scale in a stress-test market
- Florida Agency Network expands CertifID use across closings
- NYC buyers caught in the middle of StreetEasy, Compass listing fight
- Housing starts outlook turns negative through 2027 as costs rise
- Zillow Preview listings now live on Realtor.com
- UWM says 25% of borrowers benefit from new credit score model
- Foreclosure filings rise 13% year-over-year, South hit hardest
- The wrong levers
- Can empowering small investors strengthen America’s housing supply?
- Who owns the customer? That depends on whom you ask.
- The Fed rate-hike cycle has started. What’s next?
- Housing Market Spotlight: The housing market signal to watch as rates top 7%
- What real estate professionals should know about the Fed rate hike
- Why more builder discounts are not unlocking new-home demand
- Fed hikes rates, with analysts seeing more tightening ahead
- Student loan match program could add up to $20B annually to retirement accounts
- Mainstay acquires Truelist, raises $18M in financing
- Lennar valuation near tangible book puts margins in spotlight
- Amblebrook and Shea’s Trilogy are rewriting their 55+ value pitch
- Compass launches global division for cross-border referrals
- Flock cameras changing due diligence for agents, homebuyers
- How DRB uses customer intel to connect land, product, and sales
- CoStar names Felix Kusch president of Homes.com
- Ameritrust sues investors, brokers over $14M loss in Baltimore fraud scheme
- HomeSmart signs marketing agreement with loanDepot
- StreetEasy changes Experts rules and lowers success fees
- First American expands no-cost property title monitoring
- DSCR loans are booming amid fragmented underwriting standards
- Housing market faces headwinds as mortgage rates move above 7%
- Zillow faces shareholder lawsuit over Redfin deal
- Park Street Homes expands urban infill homebuilding model
- The Agency hires Jim Lonergan to lead Midwest expansion
- MISMO board adds VantageScore, Guild and FICO leaders amid credit modernization push
- IRES MLS names Julie Dahl CEO, succeeding Jeff Bosch
- Putting the ROAD Act into action faces a funding and HUD gauntlet
- August CPI shows sticky core inflation ahead of Fed meeting
- MLS of 2030 will be defined by who controls housing data
- 25 years after 9/11, Homes for Heroes has given back nearly $200M
- Providence rent stabilization push springs back to post-primary life
- CCM pushes conforming loan limit to $845,000 ahead of FHFA announcement
- Toughen up: StyleCraft Builders CEO on back-to-basics leadership
- New credit score pricing grids point to higher borrower costs, report shows
- Fifth Circuit upholds dismissal of NAR three-way agreement suit
- Homeowners insurance costs hit another record high of $209 per month in Q2 2026
- Mortgage rates top 7% as oil hits $100 and yields climb
- Existing home sales slip to 3.98 million in August as rates take a bite
- More seniors struggle to age in place as support gaps widen
- Ocrolus integrates with Freddie Mac AIM Check
- Parents follow their kids to the South in ‘baby chaser’ boom
- Housing Market Spotlight: When housing market signals don’t agree
- National Home Corp. targets 18% gross margin with pace focus
- Sotheby’s International Realty brings ONE, TTR under company-owned brokerage
- Do you have what it takes to scale profitably for the model you are running?
- Buying a home now beat waiting in 61% of scenarios, AD Mortgage study finds
- GSEs open VantageScore 4.0 to all single-family lenders
- REMAX adds Missoula affiliate with REMAX Confluence
- Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices adds Nevada leadership
- UWM drops high-balance LLPAs, extends Bullseye 90 pricing
- Can tech keep agents out of trouble for listing mistakes?
- Truss Financial scales hybrid model with new direct lending platform
- Florida’s housing market looks shaky. Orlando tells a more complicated story
- FSBO.com rolls out tech platform to streamline home purchase agreements
- George Morales on proprietary reverse mortgages and MISMO standards
- Why the best master-planned communities are designed around everyday life
- Housing year-over-year comps need context for the rest of 2026
- Trump threatens trade halt if Fed does not cut rates
- Fay Group acquires VanDyk Mortgage to expand conforming loan footprint
- ICE raids strain homebuilder labor, cycle times, and bank lines
- Why mortgage rates barely budged after jobs report beat estimates
- Pulte says FHFA weighing bi-merge, single credit report
- August payrolls rise 162,000, Fed rate hike odds in focus
- Hyperlocal micromarkets may be the next big housing data shift
- Investor share slips to 27% of single-family purchases, Cotality says
- SERHANT. adds Chad Bishop Group in Fort Lauderdale
- Authority compounds on LinkedIn. Absence compounds, too.
- Homebuilder sellers face tougher prices as M&A appetite slows
- Is NWMLS’ First Look the template for MLS coming soon policies?
- The biggest impact of the SpaceX IPO won’t be in Silicon Valley
- Vishal Garg lays out Better turnaround plan amid battle with board
- The missing step in real estate marketing is the reply
- Graceful Finance’s ‘Lifestyle Agreement’ targets senior homeowners with reverse mortgage alternative
- Dark Matter Technologies expands leadership team
- Economic activity edges higher amid mixed consumer signals
- Atlantic Avenue ranks No. 1 as higher rates keep June’s HECM broker activity in check
- Gen Z is buying homes. Is the mortgage industry ready?
- What employer housing benefits are still missing
- Why Reno’s housing market is holding up while Phoenix, Denver and Austin fall
- Michigan primary wins bolster momentum for zoning reforms
- Compass-NWMLS settlement bigger than ‘coming soon’ listings
- eXp ends mortgage JV with Kind Lending, eyes Newrez deal
- Rocket’s amended complaint says UWM targeted Mr. Cooper borrowers
- Real estate doesn’t compete with other brokerages anymore
- Immigration enforcement tightens squeeze on homebuilders’ job sites
- California mega team Tafoya Real Estate joins eXp Realty
- Beyond affordability: What Florida’s Amendment 3 could mean for MSR values
- The end of SaaS as we know it in mortgage lending?
- Pre-IPO equity is redefining the qualified borrower
- Modular housing fails to scale. Will policy reforms alter that?
- How long can mortgage rates stay below 7%?
- A raft of California housing bills heads to Newsom; here’s what’s new
- Jamie Cavanaugh to lead Broker Action Coalition as CEO
- Closings per market shows why some builders scale faster
- Compass settles NWMLS lawsuit on coming soon listings
- Financial pressures are threatening middle-class retirement
- The next competitive advantage isn’t AI, it’s the operating model
- Affordability shouldn’t come at the expense of property rights
- Housing demand has slowed, but still stable for now
- The WSJ is wrong about FHA loans and nonbanks, and they know it
- Mounting ICE raids leave homebuilding’s frontlines frozen in fear
- Eastern Washington agents balance business and wildfire disaster recovery
- ERA Real Estate names Frank Malpica president
- South River Mortgage elevates Tyler Plack to CEO
- FHA expected to keep Classic FICO as it adds new models in January
- MBA president fires back on claims of poor FHA underwriting
- Fed Chair Warsh will vote to hike rates if data doesn’t improve
- Warsh delivers hawkish Jackson Hole speech, fueling speculation of a September rate hike
- KB Home names Casey Dare president of Tampa division
- Champion Homes adds Eagle Materials’ Michael Haack to board
- “The Crooked E” and manufactured housing: Evidence of systemic failures and corruption
- AI can estimate a home. An appraisal can inform the decision.
- Real REMAX Group halts Motto Mortgage franchise growth
- As Kortas and Casa make peace, AIME is back in the mix
- Builders face a tougher math problem as completed inventory rises
- Ginnie Mae wants issuers to focus on fixing loan-level data quality
- NWMLS launches AI home search on NWMLS.com with Broker Public Portal
- Early state tax data prompts NYC to pare pied-a-terre tax pool
- Foreclosure filings rise 10% annually in July, ATTOM says
- Stellar MLS’s new CEO wants to put the industry in fast-forward
- The operating model redesign opportunity of the century
- Sometimes the fastest way forward is to slow down
- Mortgage lenders weigh AI, alternative data and credit models
- Vishal Garg takes Better to court over ‘poison pill’
- Ryan Serhant doesn’t want to buy your brokerage. He wants your agents
- ‘You really can’t prepare’: Indiana real estate broker reflects on unprecedented storms
- DOJ, FBI say China-backed hackers breached Fed, other US agencies
- As the silver tsunami hits Delaware, who will serve an aging population?
- Data centers: What housing professionals need to know
- AI worries rise among real estate leaders
- The mortgage industry is deploying AI backward
- What lenders need to ask as they prepare for a multi-credit scoring model environment
- Colorado’s AI proposal raises new compliance questions for lenders
- Retirees are experiencing a disconnect between net worth, cash on hand
- New home demand swoons even as sales prices hit a 5-year low
- Why 45 homebuilding markets may not beat six high density ones
- Veterans United promotes Jeremyah Grigery to CMO
- Builders FirstSource bets $25.3 million on AI build-cycle scale
- UWM launches Mortgage Matchup plugin for ChatGPT
- Federal agencies scrap Biden-era SPCP guidance
- The real AI divide in the mortgage industry
- What 800 title and escrow professionals shared about wire fraud, and how they’re fighting it
- The loan officer engineer: The $11,898 problem
- Real REMAX Group closes merger, REAX begins trading Aug. 25
- Op-ed calls for stronger means testing, service limitations for Social Security, Medicare
- HECM broker endorsements continue tepid pace in May
- Unlock reaches deal with Minnesota AG after home equity agreements were labeled illegal
- Florida’s Space Coast housing market enters a new normal
- Compass antitrust lawsuit adds new lead plaintiff
