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Housing muni market swells amid affordability policy debate

Affordable housing, Bonds, Housing Policy, Policy, The Builder's Daily /

Financing affordable housing development – typically for lower-income households – is one of the most challenging matters in real estate. Making the economics work on a deal requires layered “hard and soft” funding sources as developers navigate rising costs, policy instability, and structural gaps in the subsidy system. The process is so complicated that professionals […]

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Data ownership and AI tools are reshaping real estate tech stacks

Agent, Artificial Intelligence, Contributors, HWmember, Real Estate, Real Estate Marketing, real estate teams, Real Estate Technology, Technology /

We’ve all experienced take-it-or-leave-it tech: Systems and platforms that some real estate agents swear by and other agents ignore. Maybe it makes you more productive (if you use it consistently), but it’s no real loss if you don’t. That’s not the case with artificial intelligence. As the consumers you’re working with increasingly adopt AI in

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CoStar names Nana Banerjee to board as independent director

Andy Florance, CoStar Group, Homes.com, HWmember, People Movers, Real Estate, Technology /

CoStar Group has added a new independent director to its board of directors. On Monday, the Andy Florance-helmed firm announced the appointment of Nana Banerjee to the firm’s board of directors. Banerjee’s appointment expands the board to nine members, including eight independent directors.  “On behalf of the Board, we are pleased to welcome Nana, a

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Lennar margin ‘circuit breaker’: Is Stuart Miller right, wrong or bluffing?

Homebuilders, Leadership, New Home Sales, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

A year ago, Stuart Miller described homebuilder margins as a “shock absorber.” The Lennar Executive Chair and Chief Executive Officer had begun doing so two or three years earlier, as mortgage-rate pathways began wreaking havoc on the post-pandemic housing market. The metaphor suited the moment. Mortgage rates had risen sharply, and buyer affordability had plummeted

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The best real estate agents aren’t tougher, they are more structured

Agent, Contributors, HWmember, NextHome, Opinion, Real Estate, real estate agent, Real Estate Marketing, real estate teams, Residential Real Estate /

When every deal feels personal, even winning gets expensive. There is a particular look you start to recognize once you have been around the real estate industry long enough. You know the one. That steely, thousand-yard stare that comes from decades of real estate. It shows up at open houses around hour four. In late-night

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PE firm buys mortgage tech company formerly known as Voxtur

Industry News, M&A, Mortgage technology, Originations, Underwriting /

A New York-based private equity firm is acquiring Apex Analytics, formerly Voxtur Analytics, after a tumultuous past few years. Processing Content Hale Capital Management, which has a focus on investing in technology and technology-enabled companies at key moments of transformation, bought Voxtur’s existing senior secured indebtedness from Bank of Montreal in September, an obligation the

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Mortgage deregulation: praise and peril from Trump’s EO

Housing markets, Politics and policy, Regulation and compliance, Underwriting /

Mortgage industry professionals have raised some concerns amid the broader praise for President Trump’s executive order signed Friday, which aims to loosen mortgage lending regulations.   Processing Content Many of the rules the EO looks to unwind were put into effect by the Dodd-Frank Act, passed in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis and the

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Democratic AGs sue HUD over fair housing guidance

Fair Housing Act, Litigation, Politics and policy, Trump administration /

Key insight: A group of 16 state attorneys general, all Democrats, have filed suit against the Department of Housing and Urban Development over a recent guidance limiting enforcement of equal housing laws. Supporting data: The attorneys general say the guidance, which affects how HUD funds state investigations of discrimination complaints, threatens $10.7M in Fair Housing

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