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| Oct 1, 2026 | Mortgage Banking Summit: Mike Kortas on NEXA’s hybrid model, next steps in servicing | NEXA Lending founder and executive partner Mike Kortas confirmed Thursday that his company is not built on the traditional mortgage lending model.
“Retail guys will say, ‘Well, you’re a broker, right?’ Brokers will say, ‘You’re retail.’ I d... |
| Oct 1, 2026 | Mortgage Banking Summit: FOA’s Jonathan Scarpati on finding opportunity in reverse | Mortgage lenders looking for growth opportunities should consider the senior homeowner market, where borrowers are sitting on trillions of dollars in home equity but may not be able to qualify for or afford traditional home equity products,... |
| Sep 28, 2026 | Is technology changing the economics? | Each installment of this series has opened with the 30-year mortgage rate higher than the one before it. This week was no exception.
Freddie Mac reported that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 7.03% as of September 24, up from 6.95% ... |
| Sep 28, 2026 | From policy to a path forward | A family cannot rebuild a home with a press release.
A new program can be well designed. Funding can be approved. Agencies can publish guidance. Lenders, servicers, insurers, builders and local governments can each do their part. Yet a disa... |
| Sep 24, 2026 | HouseCanary’s bankruptcy fight is tied to a $175M+ verdict against Rocket Close | HouseCanary is looking to collect potentially upwards of $175 million from Amrock, which is now known as Rocket Close, Rocket Companies’ title segment, as part of its trade secret theft suit dating back to 2015.
Based on court filings in th... |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Every channel has a moat. Have you found yours? | Each installment of this series has opened with the 30-year rate higher than the one before it, and this week the ladder reached a new rung.
On September 16, the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate a quarter point, to a target ran... |
| Sep 22, 2026 | Technology is not culture | A few weeks ago I read an interview with the leader of a big IMB. His argument was that our only hope is to cap the rising cost of closing a loan and eventually lower it, and that technology is how we’ll get there.
He’s right. Everyone read... |
| Sep 17, 2026 | Who owns the customer? That depends on whom you ask. | Each installment of this series has opened with the 30-year rate higher than the one before it. When our first article ran, Freddie Mac’s weekly survey stood at 6.66%. The debate through the summer was whether rates would breach 7%. That de... |
| Sep 17, 2026 | The wrong levers | Conversations can change history. Don’t believe me? Look at trigger leads as a case study.
Who’d have ever thought that a problem first evidenced by complaints from rank-and-file loan originators would escalate into a full legislative effor... |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Do you have what it takes to scale profitably for the model you are running? | When our first article ran two weeks ago, Freddie Mac had the 30-year fixed rate at 6.66%. As of this writing, rates hover above 7% for the first time this year. The premise of this series, that no strategic plan should rest on rates rescui... |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Into the crucible: Five questions every residential lending CEO should answer | Mortgage banking has always been cyclical. This cycle has been unforgiving. Rates remain high, affordability is strained, inventory is tight and refinance volume has been slow to return. It may seem easy to wait for a better market. That ma... |
| Aug 12, 2026 | Optimal Blue’s Kevin Foley discusses AI Labs, Virtual Economist rollout | Earlier this week, Optimal Blue announced the general availability of Virtual Economist, an artificial intelligence-powered forecasting tool designed to help mortgage capital markets leaders analyze interest rates and mortgage lock volume.
... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Lenders urged to solve business problems before adopting AI | Mortgage lenders that adopt artificial intelligence should focus first on the business problems they’re trying to solve rather than chasing the latest technology, according to panelists who spoke Tuesday at HousingWire’s AI Summit.
Amanda T... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | ‘Sounds like competition to me’: Sizing up Google’s real estate play at the AI Summit | The traditional path to homeownership — from portal search to real estate agent to loan officer — is being rapidly rewired by artificial intelligence (AI), and the industry’s biggest players want to be first through the new front door.
That... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | AI agents could dominate home search, Lower and HouseCanary CEOs say | Industry executives speaking at HousingWire‘s AI Summit on Tuesday predict that AI agents will not only continue to take the reins on tasks now performed by real estate agents, loan officers and other housing professionals but will eventual... |
| Aug 11, 2026 | HousingWire expands AI strategy to housing data and news | HousingWire is expanding its artificial intelligence strategy by making its housing market data, mortgage information and industry analysis accessible through AI platforms including ChatGPT and Claude.
HousingWire executives previewed the t... |
| Aug 5, 2026 | CRMLS CEO Art Carter sees more industry litigation ahead, AI blindspots | For decades, California Regional MLS (CRMLS) has stood at the center of one of the nation’s most complex and influential real estate markets.
As CRMLS CEO, Art Carter navigates the organization through unprecedented market conditions, indus... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | AI’s housing impact is strong — but highly localized | AI wealth concentrating in established hubs
The strongest housing impact from AI appears to be occurring where the highest-paid AI researchers, engineers and executives are concentrated.
The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont market has seen act... |
| Jun 25, 2026 | ERA’s Alex Vidal: Why leadership development should aim to drive real growth | Leadership has always mattered in real estate. What’s changed is the expectation. Today’s brokerage leaders are navigating an industry defined by tighter margins, faster technology shifts and heightened competition for both talent and trust... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Project NexusRE adds governance layer for MLS data and AI use | NorthstarMLS and REcore Solutions, along with the WAV Group’s Fluente AI team have unveiled Project NexusRE, a patent-pending infrastructure layer intended to give multiple listing services (MLS) and brokers more visibility and control over... |
| May 20, 2026 | Why agents will ignore your expensive AI tool — and how to fix it | For many real estate brokers, the dream of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered efficiency has crashed against a hard reality; agents are reluctant to use tools that force them to change habits.
Tyler Morton — broker-owner of REMAX Victory ... |
| Apr 30, 2026 | The Gathering: How is AI reshaping mortgage lending and servicing? | It’s difficult to understate the impact that artificial intelligence is having on all aspects of the mortgage industry. From lead generation and borrower qualification to loan servicing and customer retention, companies must find ways to st... |
| Apr 28, 2026 | HUD rescinds energy rule for new construction, opening market to more FHA, USDA buyers | U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner said the agency is rescinding energy-efficiency requirements tied to loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (... |
| Apr 25, 2026 | Housing demand shockingly positive even as the Iran war continues | Historically, mortgage spreads have ranged from 1.60% to 1.80%. Last week, spreads closed at 1.93%, down from 2.00% the week before.
However, I wanted to compare last week’s rates to the worst levels of spreads over the past three years, gi... |
| Apr 8, 2026 | RenoFi hires Brandon Silvia as national production leader to drive renovation lending growth | Philadelphia-based RenoFi announced Wednesday that it has hired Brandon Silvia as executive vice president and national production leader, moving to the renovation financing platform from top-10 U.S. mortgage lender Rate.
Silvia will overse... |
| Feb 13, 2026 | Dr. Lee Davenport: Fair Housing Equalizer | Featured in this episode:
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Open the door to the most powerful room in housing. Join us Apr... |
| Feb 10, 2026 | Barry Habib, Logan Mohtashami say housing market set for pent-up demand surge | The U.S. housing market may be poised for a historic surge as pent-up demand meets a potentially lower rate environment.
As part of an expert panel at HousingWire’s 2026 Housing Economic Summit, MBS Highway founder and CEO Barry Habib said ... |
| Feb 10, 2026 | ‘Objectively failing’ — Real estate leaders call for data-first strategy | Dan Duffy did not ease into his critique of the housing industry’s approach to analytics.
“I’ll be the first one to admit that we are currently objectively failing at United,” the United Real Estate Group founder and CEO told attendees Tues... |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Who’s buying real estate brokerages post Compass-Anywhere merger? | With the dust now settling on 2025, marked by Compass’s acquisition of Anywhere and Stone Point’s strategic investment in Keller Williams Realty, the natural question is: What does the mergers and acquisitions landscape look like for 2026?
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| Jan 29, 2026 | Victoria DeLuce on capital markets and the path to affordable housing | All eyes are finally on housing affordability. As Victoria DeLuce, senior vice president of home equity lending at Rate and a speaker at HousingWire’s Housing Economic Summit, states in a recent interview, the Trump administration is paying... |
| Jan 28, 2026 | 5 ways brokerages use systems to make culture real for agents | When people talk about culture in real estate, it often sounds abstract. Values on a wall. A mission statement in a handbook. Something that feels important, but hard to translate into daily behavior.
After nearly three decades in this indu... |
| Jan 13, 2026 | Glenn Kelman steps down as Redfin CEO | It’s the end of an era at Redfin. Glenn Kelman, Redfin’s longtime CEO, announced that he is leaving the firm in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday.
“After 20 years, I’m leaving Redfin. I gave it my all! Leaving was my decision. I love my colleagues... |
| Jan 5, 2026 | Mortgage M&A poised to accelerate in 2026 | More deals in 2026?
Brett Ludden, managing director at consulting firm Milliman — which in December acquired MSR analytics and advisory provider MorVest Capital — expects more transactions in 2026 than in 2025.
“You have the benefit of both... |
| Dec 31, 2025 | HousingWire 2026 housing market forecast: A more balanced market comes into view | As always with my work, a forecast is useless without a tracker model each week or month to explain where things are heading, because if there is one thing the last three years have shown, it’s that housing can shift quickly and our data wi... |
| Dec 22, 2025 | United Real Estate CEO Dan Duffy on the roadmap for competitive advantage | Data continues to be a clear differentiator in real estate, especially for those who want to grow in 2026. As Dan Duffy, founder and CEO of United Real Estate Group, explains, leaders who have doubled down on the importance of data hold a s... |
| Dec 21, 2025 | Why did the growth rate of housing inventory drop by half this year? | The week ahead: A ton of bond auctions and new home sales
It’s Christmas week and we will have a ton of bond auctions plus data on new home sales, durable goods, inflation, industrial production, weekly jobless claims and the weekly ADP dat... |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Inside Pennymac’s Texas expansion and its push for top mortgage talent | Pennymac cut the ribbon on a new facility in Carrollton, Texas, on Friday, which will become the company’s largest corporate office, eventually housing more than 1,800 employees. The move consolidates two offices in the Dallas/Fort Worth me... |
| Dec 13, 2025 | Weekly housing demand reaches multiyear high | The week ahead: A lot of data coming
We have a lot of data coming out this week, including builders’ confidence, the jobs report, inflation, retail sales, bond auctions and jobless claims. We are on the verge of breaking a key level with th... |
| Dec 12, 2025 | Why housing affordability will improve in 2026 | Consider this timeline: After peaking above 5x income in 2022, the price-to-income ratio is already easing. Our forecast shows it dropping to around 4.9x by the end of 2026. With continued income growth and flat prices, the market moves clo... |
| Dec 12, 2025 | 3 forces shaping the housing market in 2026 | For the past several years, the housing market has been defined more by what didn’t happen than what did.
Homeowners didn’t move. Inventory didn’t rebuild. Affordability didn’t materially improve. Ultra-low pandemic-era mortgage rates creat... |
| Dec 10, 2025 | Why 2026 policy debates will center on housing supply, not mortgage rates | The following information has haunted me since last year.
“According to Fannie Mae calculations, it would take one of three things, or a combination of them, for affordability to return to 2016-2019 levels: The median price of a single-fami... |
| Dec 6, 2025 | December housing demand near 3-year high as spreads improve | The week ahead: Fed meeting
We have a ton of economic data coming in the week ahead, as the government is back at work and getting back in the swing of releasing economic data, but the big event is the Fed meeting on Wednesday. Sarah and I ... |
| Dec 5, 2025 | Mortgage rates vs. Main Street: What will drive the housing market in 2026? | For years, national stories have characterized the U.S. housing market. Record-low mortgage rates, post-pandemic buying frenzies, the rate-lock effect and affordability constraints were the narratives that dominated housing market conversat... |
| Dec 4, 2025 | Has homeownership become a luxury good? | Homeownership is the top means by which the typical American accumulates and builds wealth, and that has never been truer than today.
Homeowners are the winners in today’s housing market, experiencing large gains in home equity across the b... |
| Dec 3, 2025 | Bright MLS projects 2026 as reset year, not a rebound | Diverging local conditions
Bright MLS projects a wide range of experiences for households depending on where they live.
Price growth is expected to be stronger supply-challenged markets across the Midwest and Northwest.
The same is said for... |
| Nov 14, 2025 | First American’s 2026 housing market forecast points to better affordability | After a year of easing mortgage rates and slightly improved affordability, the U.S. housing market heads into 2026 with expectations for steady, if uneven, progress.
First American deputy chief economist Odeta Kushi said a broader reset rem... |
| Nov 14, 2025 | AnnieMac CEO Joseph Panebianco on using data to drive success | One key theme among top mortgage players is how they use data to drive their success and guide their decisions. AnnieMac Home Mortgage CEO Joseph Panebianco will pull back the curtain and discuss his approach during his session at the Housi... |
| Nov 12, 2025 | Data-driven leadership will define the 2026 housing market | Each new year brings new table stakes for the housing industry, as leaders assess the factors and trends that are no longer optional to stay competitive. Trends in AI, data and lead generation are driving many of these shifts. Nora Guerra, ... |
| Sep 12, 2025 | MBA’s Bob Broeksmit sees risks in merging Fannie and Freddie | Amid recent reporting that President Trump is weighing a $500 billion stock offering for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and that he might be considering a merger of the two mortgage giants, Mortgage Bankers Association‘s CEO and President Bob B... |
| Aug 15, 2025 | Lenders urged to build AI compliance foundations sooner rather than later | Mortgage lenders deploying artificial intelligence should prepare now for Colorado’s comprehensive AI law that will take effect in February 2026 and rethink how they manage compliance risk.
That’s according to Mike Brown, chief product offi... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | NEXA Mortgage hires Eric Mitchell to help boost LO count | In its quest to bring its loan officer count up to 5,000, NEXA Mortgage announced Thursday that it has brought on Eric Mitchell to assist with its goal.
Mitchell will serve as a “key hire” recruiting partner for NEXA, newly appointed chief ... |
| Aug 13, 2025 | eXp Realty’s Sumanth Kamath on AI and digital twins | Sumanth Kamath — chief technology officer at eXp Realty — took the stage Tuesday in Dallas at HousingWire’s AI Summit to share how his company is using artificial intelligence (AI) to drive efficiency, empower employees and scale operations... |
| Aug 13, 2025 | At AI Summit, Better, NEO execs discuss how partnership is driving productivity | Earlier this year, NEO Home Loans and Better Mortgage announced a partnership that combined Better’s AI-driven technology with NEO’s distributed retail expertise. The ultimate goal? To transform mortgage lending and find the balance of AI a... |
| Aug 12, 2025 | NEXA Mortgage partners with Tidalwave to bring Agentic AI platform to brokers | NEXA Mortgage and Tidalwave announced a strategic partnership Tuesday at HousingWire’s AI Summit that will give NEXA’s 3,200 brokers access to Tidalwave’s agentic AI technology platform.
Tidalwave’s SOLO platform offers comprehensive mortga... |
| Aug 12, 2025 | UWM’s Jason Bressler encourages broker use of AI to ‘control your own destiny’ | United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) chief technology officer Jason Bressler delivered a blunt message to mortgage professionals while on stage Tuesday at HousingWire’s AI Summit. The doom and gloom of high interest rates and industry consolidat... |
| Aug 12, 2025 | Anywhere’s Eric Chesin says the AI transformation is already here for real estate | Eric Chesin, the chief strategy officer for Anywhere Real Estate, believes the industry is in the middle of a “magic moment for progress and change” brought about by the ongoing revolution in artificial intelligence..
“It basically threw al... |
| Aug 8, 2025 | HousingWire AI Summit to address tech’s promise and pitfalls | As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms housing, mortgage lending and real estate sales, industry leaders will gather Tuesday in Dallas for HousingWire’s AI Summit to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by the emerging tec... |
| Jul 9, 2025 | What Comes Next: Inside Rocket After the Deals | Open the door to the most powerful room in housing. Join us at The Gathering 2026 in Austin, TX, April 27-30. Go here to lock in special pricing with your registration.
Varun Krishna has been staying busy. But in between deploying $9.4 bill... |
| Jul 9, 2025 | Fireside Chat: Scaling Without Borders | Open the door to the most powerful room in housing. Join us at The Gathering 2026 in Austin, TX, April 27-30. Go here to lock in special pricing with your registration.
As the executive leading LPT’s global expansion, Valdes brings a front-... |
| Jul 9, 2025 | Built Different: How Patty Arvielo Scales with Purpose | Open the door to the most powerful room in housing. Join us at The Gathering 2026 in Austin, TX, April 27-30. Go here to lock in special pricing with your registration.
In a fireside chat with Patty Arvielo, Co-Founder and CEO of New Americ... |
| Jul 9, 2025 | Fireside Chat: Reinventing NAR | Open the door to the most powerful room in housing. Join us at The Gathering 2026 in Austin, TX, April 27-30. Go here to lock in special pricing with your registration.
What does it take to turn around a legacy institution in the midst of i... |
| Jun 17, 2025 | TRUE names Steve Butler its CEO, Ari Gross CIO | TRUE, a provider of decisioning software for the mortgage industry, on Tuesday announced the appointment of Stephen “Steve” Butler as Chief Executive Officer and company founder Ari Gross as Chairman and Chief Innovation Officer.
Per a rele... |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Fairway, Longbridge lead reverse mortgage presence at The Gathering | This week at The Gathering by HousingWire, reverse mortgages took center stage on Tuesday as HW Media CEO Clayton Collins welcomed two leading industry executives to the stage.
Dan Ventura, the president of reverse mortgage lending at Fairw... |
| Jun 11, 2025 | What makes a strong leader? The women of housing offer their thoughts | The women of the housing industry took to the stage on Wednesday morning during the Women of Influence Forum to share leadership stories and strategies on the final day of The Gathering by HousingWire.
For Michelle Sipe, the senior vice pre... |
| Jun 10, 2025 | As trigger leads ban inches closer, MBA’s Broeksmit talks deregulation, conservatorship | Goodbye, trigger leads? It’s not quite done yet, but a key House committee on Tuesday is expected to pass H.R. 2808, a bill to curb abusive mortgage trigger leads.
In a conversation with HousingWire’s Sarah Wheeler at The Gathering, the hea... |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Longbridge goes beyond reverse with Figure partnership, new ‘HELOC for Seniors’ | Reverse mortgage lender and servicer Longbridge Financial, a no. 2 industry player in reverse-backed securities issuance and one of the top two providers of proprietary reverse mortgage loans, is expanding its product suite beyond governmen... |
| Jun 10, 2025 | Total Expert debuts AI Sales Assistant at The Gathering | Total Expert on Tuesday announced the debut of its AI Sales Assistant at HousingWire‘s The Gathering. The company said that the AI-powered assistant is already in private beta testing with select customers, including several top 10 lenders.... |
| Jun 10, 2025 | How AI is changing the game for brokerages and agents | When it comes to tech savviness, it’s hard to argue that eXp Realty and The Real Brokerage aren’t two of the most tech savvy firms in the real estate industry. But despite leading the first cloud-based brokerage, eXp CEO Leo Pareja says tha... |
| Jun 10, 2025 | How to navigate a successful brokerage acquisition | In the wake of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement, RealTrends Consulting co-founder Steve Murray predicted a new wave of industry consolidation.
“Almost any time in history the U.S. federal ... |
| Jun 9, 2025 | Nykia Wright looks to lead NAR into the future | There is no denying that Nykia Wright joined the National Association of Realtors (NAR) at a major inflection point for both the industry and the trade organization.
“The travesty and joke is that the same day I signed my interim CEO contra... |
| Jun 9, 2025 | The Cooperative Compensation debate rages on | Although nearly a year may have passed since the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) commission lawsuit settlement business practice changes went into effect, industry leaders still cannot decide whether sellers should be sharing offers... |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Are real estate brokerages going the way of the dodo? | Real estate brokerages have faced their fair share of challenges over the past year — from legal threats and business practice changes, to a slow housing market and the breakneck pace of technological development. With all of these changes ... |
| Jun 8, 2025 | Compass talks M&A strategy at The Gathering | Private listings and Clear Cooperation (CCP) have been Compass’s headline calling cards over the past several months, but at HousingWire’s The Gathering on Sunday, mergers and acquisitions were the primary focus.
In a conversation with Dieg... |
| Jun 6, 2025 | Amy Stockberger to Speak at HousingWire’s The Gathering | How Lifetime Home Support™ Turns Clients Into Raving Fans and Agents Into Lifers
I don’t just hand my agents leads. I hand them a system that keeps clients coming back for life. That’s how you build real loyalty, real wealth, and real legac... |
| Jun 3, 2025 | Hall Willkie steps down as president of Brown Harris Stevens | Brown Harris Stevens will soon be without its longtime president, Hall Willkie.
On Monday, the real estate firm announced that Willkie will be stepping down as New York City brokerage president, effective July 1. But Willkie’s journey with ... |
| May 8, 2025 | Will the real Tamir Poleg please stand up? | Tamir Poleg, chairman and CEO of The Real Brokerage, closed out the prepared remarks section of his firm’s first-quarter 2025 earnings call by addressing the “transformative technological era” the industry is currently operating in.
The cat... |
| May 8, 2025 | Frederick Warburg Peters joins Brown Harris Stevens | The founder of Warburg Realty Frederick Warburg Peters is joining Brown Harris Stevens. The New York-based firm announced Peters’ move on Thursday.
Peters founded Warburg Realty in 1991 before selling it to Coldwell Banker in 2021. Frederic... |
| Apr 23, 2025 | How Mr. Cooper plans to power Rocket’s homeownership flywheel | In their first earnings call since being acquired by Rocket Companies for $9.4 billion, Mr. Cooper executives did not take questions from analysts. But they did provide a glimpse of the opportunities the deal represents for companies in the... |
| Feb 28, 2025 | Housing executives express mixed views on affordability, home sales expectations | Simonsen noted that some real estate brokers reported weakening of commission rates, but just as many respondents cited positive changes to their businesses.
Don’t miss out on the next HousingWire event, where we will continue to create the... |
| Feb 27, 2025 | Rising insurance costs will continue to put a strain on homeownership | In 2024, the U.S. recorded 27 weather and climate disasters that incurred losses of more than $1 billion, the second-highest total for any year on record.
It also marked the 14th consecutive year in which the U.S. experienced 10 or more bil... |
| Feb 18, 2025 | Could home prices turn negative this year? | As of this week 33% of the homes on the market have taken a price cut. That’s actually a slight fraction fewer than a week ago, which coincides with a pretty good new listing set this week. More fresh new listings mean as a percentage fewer... |
| Feb 15, 2025 | The impact of job cuts on the DC housing market | Hopefully, this article provides a better understanding of the housing inventory in the DC marketplace.
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| Feb 8, 2025 | Better mortgage spreads are capping rates in 2025 | This week we will likely see more headline drama related to reciprocal tariffs, and I will discuss how the market reacts to that, as I did here.
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| Feb 3, 2025 | Weak demand is forcing more home sellers to reduce their asking price | There were 56,000 newly pending home sales this week. That’s a nice nearly 8% increase fro the week prior. This is the time of year when you’d expect home sales to grow each week. So that’s good. In fact, home sales were actually a tiny fra... |
| Feb 1, 2025 | Mortgage rates stay calm before possible tariff enforcement | This week may be much more volatile compared to last week. Just remember to ignore the noise until you see something in writing or in an economic report. We will be here every day this week to help make sense of it all.
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| Dec 30, 2024 | The biggest mortgage rate stories of 2024 | 2024 was a disappointing year for those looking forward to a Fed rate-cut cycle and what that could do to mortgage rates. A strong economy (and a skittish Fed) pushed rate cuts all the way to September — and then mortgage rates went higher!... |
| Dec 20, 2024 | What real estate leaders need to know about the 2025 housing market | Despite 2025 housing market predictions changing fast, there are still key themes and trends for real estate leaders to watch to best serve their clients and business. Jessica Lautz, deputy chief economist and vice president of research at ... |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Housing inventory is down everywhere except in pandemic hotspots. Here’s why. | While migration to these areas from California and New York continues, it’s significantly less compared to 2021 and 2022. Migration data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than 90,000 people moved from New York to Florida in 2021 a... |
| Dec 17, 2024 | The 2025 housing market for first-time homebuyers | The American dream is synonymous with two ideas. One is the idea that anyone in this country can find a path to economic success regardless of their circumstances at birth. The second idea is the symbolic encapsulation of the first idea: ho... |
| Dec 16, 2024 | Will we see home equity gains in 2025? | Homeowners have generally done well over the last few years in accumulating home equity wealth. Since the onset of the pandemic, average equity per borrower increased by about $117,000 nationally, totaling almost $312,000 per mortgaged borr... |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Veterans United foresees 2025 housing market recovery, with a few caveats | Some housing professionals believe the market could normalize in 2025 after years of changes. Veterans United Home Loans — the nation’s largest producer of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) loans — thinks that mortgage rates and home... |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Side goes back to grassroots to move forward in 2025 | Many in the real estate industry are looking at 2025 as a year to get back to the basics of the business, but Side is taking it one step further.
This year, as the real estate industry looked to navigate numerous challenges, from the commis... |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Distressed properties signal a slowdown in 2025 housing market | Institutional sellers at distressed property auctions have gradually lowered pricing over the last six months as rising retail inventory and stubbornly high mortgage rates act as twin headwinds for buyers purchasing at these auctions. This ... |
| Dec 7, 2024 | Is there a housing inventory ‘silver tsunami?’ Not where it’s needed | Many older Americans say they have no plans to sell their homes. What does this mean for younger generations who are looking to enter the homeownership phase of life? (Image generated by AI in Midjourney)
There are two particular ways for p... |
| Dec 4, 2024 | ‘Tug-of-war’ conditions could hinder a 2025 housing market recovery | His proposal of a 25% tariff on Canadian goods would likely increase the cost of lumber and thus make it more expensive to build homes. Mass deportations could also zap the construction labor supply, which could also raise sticker prices fo... |
| Nov 22, 2024 | MBA revises 2025 mortgage rates forecast, and it’s not good | The Federal Reserve was expected to make several interest rate cuts in the coming months, but Trump’s election clouds that outlook because of his proposals on tariffs. At various points in the 2024 campaign, Trump proposed a 10% blanket tar... |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Fannie Mae’s forecast for home sales? ‘Meh’ | Editor’s note: HousingWire will host the Housing Economic Summit in Dallas, on Feb. 26, 2025.
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| Nov 18, 2024 | What to expect from the 2025 housing market | Mike Simonsen will be a featured speaker at the Housing Economic Summit in Dallas on February 26. Find out more here.
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| Nov 16, 2024 | Mortgage rates dodge a bullet — for now | The week ahead: Housing data and the Fed’s Austan Goolsbee
The critical data for next week is the housing data; the builder’s confidence and housing starts data are essential to my economic cycle work. Housing permits and starts are already... |
