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 newly affiliated brokers — often […]
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Mortgage rates moved lower for the second straight day as markets responded to potential de-escalation in the Iran war. Rates are based on bonds and bonds improved overnight as The President said the war could end even if the Strait of Hormuz was not yet reopened. Additional improvement followed during domestic hours based on headlines
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Iranian Red Crescent workers gather near an apartment hit by an airstrike in Tehran on March 30.Majid Saeedi/Photographer: Majid Saeedi/Getty Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s benchmark financial asset — 10-year US Treasuries — are poised to mark their biggest monthly tumble since Donald Trump returned to the White House, casting a shadow over the economic outlook
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While housing affordability has improved year-over year in all of the 50 markets tracked by First American, the sizes of the gains have varied across that universe. Plus, on a comparative basis, home prices remain higher than prior to the pandemic. Processing Content A recent analysis from the company quantifies these differences. Consumers’ house-buying power
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Opendoor Technologies is acquiring assets belonging to title fintech Doma in a deal that arrives just weeks after the real estate company re-entered mortgage lending. Processing Content The agreement adds Doma’s title automation search capabilities to Opendoor’s closing and escrow platform. Opendoor, known for its home-flipping model that quickly delivers cash to sellers, pointed to
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Home-price growth continued to slow to start 2026, two new industry reports found, diminishing the real value of homes as inflation rises. Processing Content Home prices rose 0.9% year-over-year and 0.1% month-over-month in January, according to the S&P Cotality Case-Shiller national home price index. Both points were down from December, when prices increased 1.1% annually
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United Wholesale Mortgage boss Mat Ishbia may soon testify in federal court for the first time about his company’s All-In initiative. Processing Content A Michigan court last week ordered the lender to make the UWM chairman, CEO and president available for a deposition within 30 days, in the company’s All-In lawsuit against Atlantic Trust Mortgage.
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Bill Ackman, chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital ManagementJeenah Moon/Bloomberg Government-sponsored enterprise stocks staged a recovery in the wake of a social media post from an influential figure on Wall Street who holds shares. Processing Content Billionaire and legacy GSE investor Bill Ackman’s X post on Sunday indicating the stocks were “stupidly cheap” gave
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HousingWire on Tuesday announced the launch of the HousingWire Mortgage Rankings, a new performance intelligence product designed to provide a clear, data-driven view of mortgage origination activity across the U.S. The rankings benchmark mortgage originators based on observed production, offering a standardized view of performance across geographies, loan types and channels. Historically, the mortgage industry
Not long ago, many technology vendors were selling title professionals on a fairly simple idea: one platform, one vendor, every step of the workflow covered. It was an appealing proposition, and a number of providers invested heavily in trying to deliver on it. In fact, some still are. The concept made sense on its face.
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