Affordability continues to improve in 2026, with home-price growth flattening and mortgage rates nearing 6%. Processing Content Early January declines in rates helped push affordability to a four-year high, as the monthly principal and interest payment needed to purchase the average-priced home dropped 7%, or $164, year over year to $2,091, reducing the share of […]
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A Two Harbors Investment shareholder is suing the REIT to halt its deal with United Wholesale Mortgage, raising accusations around financial disclosures and board members’ stock sales. Processing Content Michael Koblentz also named Two President and CEO William Greenberg and the company’s board of directors as defendants in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in an Illinois
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I was amazed that the last Housing Market Tracker didn’t show much drama from the epic late-January snowstorm that impacted much of the U.S., but today’s tracker data got hit for sure. However, the housing market will be back in full force again soon. Last week, inventory declined, new listings data was negative year over
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Lofty is leaning into the next phase of artificial intelligence (AI) in real estate, not just assisting agents, but quietly running much of the business for them. The real estate technology company has introduced Lofty AOS, which it describes as the industry’s first agentic AI operating system built specifically for brokerages. Lofty vice president of
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A Friday-morning news report suggesting that the Trump administration is exploring an antitrust probe into U.S. homebuilders landed with its intended shock value. The implication? Washington, having rattled its saber, may be preparing to treat large builders as a concentrated market actor whose behavior is contributing to America’s housing affordability crisis. By late Friday afternoon,
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Homebuilders — many we talk with — are calling today’s selling environment one of “demand uncertainty.” The phrase is clear. Traffic is uneven. Conversions are harder to forecast. Buyers hesitate longer, ask sharper questions, and walk away more often. The label itself may quietly misdirect leadership’s attention toward forces builders cannot control — and away
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Visitor traffic was a high point for Realtor.com during the second quarter of parent company News Corp.’s fiscal year. The firm announced its financial results for the quarter ending on December 31, 2025, on Thursday. During the quarter, revenue at Move, the operator of Realtor.com was $143 million, a 10% increase from the year prior.
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An additional five home seller commission lawsuit settlement agreements have gained final approval. On Thursday, Judge Stephen Bough, a Kansas City-based U.S. District Court judge, granted final approval to settlements reached by Hanna Holdings, William Raveis Real Estate, EXIT Realty Corp., Windermere Real Estate Services and William L. Lyon & Associates with the Gibson suit
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Just weeks after mortgage trade groups expressed concern about a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would raise fees on U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) loans, Republicans in Congress have revised the original proposal. The bill, H.R. 6047 — also known as the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act
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Reverse mortgage borrowers whose loans were previously serviced by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) subcontractor NOVAD Management Consulting LLC may receive reimbursement checks in the mail following a 2024 enforcement action brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) notified its members on Friday morning in
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