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Home sales are positive but higher rates slowing demand

Mortgage rates hit a yearly high last week and even though housing demand is still positive year over year, it is slowing down, just not in a big way yet. Typically, in the past few years, when mor...

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Berkshire completes Taylor Morrison deal valued at $8.5B enterprise value

Berkshire Hathaway has completed its acquisition of Taylor Morrison Home Corp. in a cash deal that values the Arizona-based homebuilder at about $6.8 billion in equity and $8.5 billion in enterpris...

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Deed theft remains a growing threat for seniors, Black homeowners

For generations, real estate has been the primary vehicle for building intergenerational wealth in America. But for older adults and Black homeowners, that vehicle has also made them a t...

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Headwaters Group Expanding Beyond Active Adult Into Full-Service Senior Living

Four years ago, Ben Burke launched Headwaters Group with a plan to develop active adult communities. Now, in anticipation of growing demand for senior living, the company is broadening i...

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Don’t fall for a fake foreclosure crisis

Recently, the foreclosure data showed a 21% year-over-year gain, and the floodgates of doom porn were flung wide open, with people marketing an impending home-price crash because they say so many A...

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Capitol Seniors Housing Sells Four-Property Portfolio to Welltower

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Capitol Seniors Housing (CSH) has completed the sale of a four-property seniors housing portfolio located in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and metro Chicago. Welltower acquired the co...

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Solo Agers Are Driving, Defining Seniors Housing Demand, Says Berkadia White Paper

NEW YORK CITY — Solo agers are contributing to the heightened demand for seniors housing, says a new Berkadia white paper composed by Ezekiel Duprey, a lead research analyst at the company. ...

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Miami Realtors + RWorld expands into Treasure Coast with new merger

Miami Realtors + RWorld has completed its second merger in just over two months, joining with Martin County Realtors of the Treasure Coast to create a single association and multiple listing (MLS) ...

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Ziegler Underwrites $304.2M Bond Financing for Campus Expansion in Connecticut

GROTON, Conn. — Specialty investment bank Ziegler has closed a $304.2 million bond financing to fund a senior living campus expansion in Groton in southeastern Connecticut. Ziegler served as the un...

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DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards: Krista Zvoch, RDN, Director of Nutrition, StoryPoint Group

Krista Zvoch, RDN, Director of Nutrition at StoryPoint Group, has been named a member of the DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards Class of 2026 by Senior Housing News. As an Ele...

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Why homebuilders aren’t building more homes

Today, the new home sales data perfectly explains why housing permits are near cycle lows and why we can’t get any traction on building more homes in America, as we have been basically stuck in one...

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High prices, hesitant demand weigh on June new home sales

New home sales posted a modest increase in June but were down from a year earlier, while prices also fell year over year, further suggesting that the 2026 spring selling season fell short of expect...

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Equity Union expands into Nevada with first market outside California

Equity Union Real Estate has expanded into Nevada, marking the independent brokerage’s first market outside California as it continues its national growth strategy. The company recently ...

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Tenfold Senior Living Eyes New Development as Baby Boomer Demand Grows

Tenfold Senior Living is gearing up for new development plans in California while improving operations to capitalize on strong demand for senior living. The Bend, Oregon-based senior liv...

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Sage Launches New Staffing Solution

NEW YORK CITY — Senior living technology company Sage has announced the launch of Labor, a new labor-management solution designed to align staffing with the acuity of residents. The new pla...

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American Healthcare REIT Makes Four Leadership Appointments

IRVINE, Calif. — American Healthcare REIT (NYSE: AHR) has announced four new leadership appointments. Jeff Hanson has been named chief executive officer of the company, following a term as ...

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New York outflows reshape housing demand in Texas and Florida

New York City is not dead. Dead cities do not command global capital, fill Broadway theaters or charge $28 for a cocktail with three ingredients and a story. But the version of New York that anchor...

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Roomvu launches AI-powered recruiting content for brokerages

Roomvu has launched a new recruiting content platform designed to help real estate brokerages, teams and agencies automate agent recruitment through AI-generated video and social media content. ...

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Congress didn’t create the private listings problem. We did.

On July 22, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust sent letters to Compass and to Midwest Real Estate Data. Both letters ask for a briefing o...

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How to handle the top producer comparison from sellers

At some point in nearly every listing appointment, a seller raises the comparison: Why hire you rather than the top producer in the market? Most agents experience the question as a threat. It is mo...

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Mortgage defaults level off in June, FHA new defaults down 15%

New mortgage default activity remained stable in June, with new defaults among Federal Housing Administration (FHA) borrowers falling 15% from a year earlier, marking the largest annual decline in ...

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