Housing
New contracts for home purchases are coming in very low this month. We counted 10% fewer home sales for the week than the same week a year ago.
In th...
A comprehensive report on homeowners insurance released by the Treasury Department this week outlined the cost of climate challenges on homeowners. Notably, ...
What are President Trump’s priorities for housing in his second term? That’s the burning question for professionals in real estate, mortgage, title, appraisa...
Voters delivered a Republican trifecta in Washington, D.C., but a razor-thin House majority and the Senate filibuster will put some limits on what is legisla...
Cybercrime losses rose to a record high of $12.8 billion in 2023, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Report, and 2024 saw more of the same. Consider thes...
Inaction is easy. It’s quiet; unwritten; immune from critique. It sits undone; confidently static.
But if buyers and sellers were compelled to tra...
The time has come to highlight game-changing real estate professionals who adhered to the gold standard of brilliance in 2024. RealTrends Verified has opened...
In this week’s episode of the PowerHouse podcast, HousingWire President Diego Sanchez talks with Lower CEO Dan Snyder about the digital lender’s rece...
The sight of beautiful houses in Los Angeles transports you to an idyllic version of the city found in classic Hollywood movies. But the harsh realities of i...
Mortgage rates fell last week after a brutal few months of rising rates. The question now is whether rates can keep going lower, or if last week was just a p...
As the dust settles from the confirmation hearing of Scott Turner to serve as the new secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week that Mark Steven Diamond, who was accused of “bilking elderly homeowners in a reverse mortgage and h...
Purchase mortgage applications for new homes rose 8.9% year over year in December 2024, according to a report released Friday by the Mortgage Bankers Associa...
A notice implemented into the reverse mortgage servicing process that is designed to flag potential foreclosures if they are in a federally declared disaster...
Seattle-based WaFd Bank, which has offered home loans for more than 100 years, announced Thursday in an earnings report that it will exit the single-...
The wildfires ripping through Los Angeles are on pace to be the most destructive in U.S. history, as one estimate concludes that property damage from the Pal...
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) this week published Mortgagee Letter (ML) 2025-06, which codifies “updates to FHA’s permanent loss mitigation option...
Today’s housing starts data exceeded estimates; however, a closer examination of the report with the builder confidence reveals that the recent rise in mortg...
Compass is strengthening its presence in the Nutmeg State. On Friday, the largest brokerage in the country by sales volume announced that The Jennifer Leahy ...
San Francisco-based real estate technology company RealScout on Thursday announced that Andrew Flachner will take over as CEO. Flachner, a co-founder of Real...
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a controversial ban on TikTok can take effect on Sunday, upholding a law that requires TikTok’s China-based parent compan...
