Housing

RezeLink AI platform aims to accelerate title search workflows

Rezervology and Titl have announced the launch of RezeLink, an artificial intelligence (AI) solution designed to streamline and accelerate title search workflows. The platform will debut...

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How will rising oil prices impact the U.S. housing market?

As we enter another week of the Iran conflict, the question now is what will this do to the economy, but for this article, we want to focus specifically on what this conflict means for the U.S. hou...

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Celink’s Ryan LaRose on reverse mortgage servicing scale pressures, structural growth limits

Editor’s note: Welcome to the third installment of the Monday Morning Q&A from HousingWire’s Reverse Mortgage Daily (RMD). Each Monday morning, the RMD newsletter will feature an in-depth inter...

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Homes.com, Zillow and the affordability stakes of who controls the listing marketplace

President Trump has made housing affordability the centerpiece of his domestic economic agenda, and for good reason. After four years of Biden-era inflation that priced millions of young families o...

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Zillow wins a battle, but market rhythm is at stake

There’s been a lot of noise in the Zillow vs. Compass lawsuit. Injunctions. Antitrust claims. State legislation. It sounds like a 5th grade band – there’s a lot going on there. Being a ...

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loanDepot is back in the wholesale channel

loanDepot is reentering the wholesale channel four years after formally exiting the segment, the company announced Monday. The move was first anticipated in August by HousingWire.Dan Peña, presiden...

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Survey reveals demand uncertainty is changing 2026 homebuilding strategy

Demand uncertainty has emerged as the defining issue for U.S. homebuilders heading into 2026. According to Builder Advisor Group’s 2026 U.S. Homebuilder Executive Outlook Survey, 58% of the 126 bui...

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Mortgage originations rise to three-year high in Q4 behind refi surge

Mortgage origination activity rose sharply in the fourth quarter as a jump in refinancing activity pushed lending to its highest level in more than three years, according to ICE Mortgage Technology...

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Anthony Casa on UMortgage’s new broker model empowering loan originators

UMortgage has rolled out a broker model designed to give loan originators more autonomy, higher earning potential, and access to a proprietary technology platform. Anthony Casa, President & CEO...

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The ANTM Trap: When smart leaders with good intentions still fail the IRL ethics test

In the feast or famine world of real estate, it can be easy to myopically focus on the bottom line (closing the deal and your commission). But a recent deep dive into a seemingly unrelated pop cult...

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Local fees trap state housing affordability reforms in a vicious circle

Procedural and zoning barriers are proving to be only the beginning of the gauntlet for adding new ground-up residential supply to America’s housing-starved communities. While removing r...

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Housing demand is up and inventory is down, even with Iran conflict

In the crazy world of economics, with all the drama last week, it was a pretty normal housing week. Housing data showed year-over-year growth, weekly pending home sales rose, inventory declined sli...

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Ninja Selling’s Larry Kendall: Control the habits, not the headlines

Real estate agents and brokers are bombarded daily with headlines predicting the industry’s next upheaval. Let it go, says Larry Kendall, founder of Ninja Selling, because most of that noise sits f...

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Angel Oak’s Tom Hutchens on new growth path for non-QMs as rates ease

When mortgage rates stayed higher for longer over the past few years, originators increasingly turned their attention to nonqualified mortgages (non-QMs). But that resurgence may not lose momentum ...

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The condo queen: How a Miami broker closes $1B+ a year

On paper, Maile Aguila’s story reads like a fairy-tale version of the American dream: After 30 years of hard work, a daughter of 1960s Cuban exiles sells $1 billion worth of Miami condos in a singl...

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Negative jobs report keeps mortgage rates calm amid surging oil prices

Oil prices are surging and mortgage rates are roughly flat so far today. It has been a crazy day in the bond market: the 10-year yield first went lower after the jobs report, then Trump posted that...

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Frontline Honors Award Winner: Ruth Villa, Wellness Director, Astoria Park Senior Living

Ruth Villa, Wellness Director at Astoria Park Senior Living, has been named to the Frontline Honors Awards Class of 2025 by Senior Housing News. To become a Frontline honoree, an individual ...

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FinCEN’s AML rule reshaping title processes — and buyer behavior

A sweeping new anti-money laundering rule from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), took effect this week, introducing new reporting obligations for certain residential real estate tr...

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Allied Title and Escrow expands into Ohio, Michigan

Virginia-based Allied Title and Escrow has expanded its operations into Ohio and Michigan — bringing its total footprint to 14 states. The move marks another step in Allied’s national gr...

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Can innovation, policy reform redeem manufactured housing’s image?

What realistic, visionary, and wise players in the U.S. housing sector believe is that some solutions are already here, hidden in plain sight. Part of the problem is that what often hide...

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90 Strange Things Found In Old Homes

Context is key. For example, your own home, even if old and a bit run down, often is comforting and familiar. But if one was to approach a house that looked like it hadn’t had a human inhabitant fo...

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