Housing

LPT Aperture Holdings acquires Speculo AI platform

LPT Aperture Holdings, parent company of LPT Realty and Aperture Global Real Estate, acquired Speculo, an AI-powered database engagement and intent-detection platform built for real estate professi...

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Harrison Street Sells 136-Unit Independent Living Community in California

OXNARD, Calif. — Harrison Street has completed the sale of Clearwater at Riverpark, a 136-unit independent living community located in Oxnard, approximately 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles. ...

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Washington state regulator hits West Capital Lending with $75K penalty

Regulators in Washington state have fined West Capital Lending Inc. (WCL) $75,000 after alleging the mortgage lender committed multiple violations of the state’s Consumer Loan Act, including allowi...

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Fed pauses rates again as Middle East tensions risk hotter inflation

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday left its benchmark interest rate unchanged, maintaining a target range of 3.5% to 3.75% for a fifth consecutive meeting. Heading into the meeting, most m...

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ONE Sotheby’s adds $10B luxury broker Julian Johnston

ONE Sotheby’s International Realty has added luxury real estate advisor Julian Johnston, bringing more than $10 billion in career sales and more than $400 million in active listing inventory to the...

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Texas is growing up, smart builders will redesign for payment math

Texas real estate is not running out of opportunity. It is simply becoming less forgiving of lazy assumptions, expensive land and undisciplined execution. For more than a decade, the Tex...

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Palo Alto SB 79 loophole begets a rush on new housing proposals

City council members in Palo Alto, the center of California’s Silicon Valley, came up with a plan they hoped they might blunt a state law that took effect July 1 that requires more density near pub...

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Pennymac trims lending, fulfillment roles in layoff round

Pennymac imposed another round of layoffs ahead of its after-market earnings report on Wednesday, as the mortgage sector navigates a higher-for-longer interest-rate environment. “Pennyma...

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Compass says Zillow exposure cut sale-to-list ratios by 1.3%

Homes that appeared on Zillow sold for 1.3% less, on average, than comparable listings that did not show up on the portal, according to new internal research from Compass International Holdings. ...

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Foreign buyers purchased $45.3B in U.S. existing homes, NAR says

Foreign buyers purchased $45.3 billion in U.S. existing homes from April 2025 through March 2026, a 19.1% drop in dollar volume and a 14% decline in the number of properties, according to the Natio...

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Mortgage applications fall 6.4% as 30-year rate hits 6.76%

Mortgage applications decreased 6.4% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)’s weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending July 24. O...

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Foreclosure auctions rise in Q2 2026, with FHA loans driving gains

Distressed property foreclosure auction activity continued to climb in the second quarter of 2026, driven largely by Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-insured mortgages and home loans originated...

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I asked ChatGPT to pick a lender. Every loan officer should do the same.

A few weeks ago, I opened ChatGPT and asked a question millions of homebuyers are about to start asking: “What’s the best mortgage company to get pre-approved quickly online?” Four minut...

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Open letter to FHFA, HUD, CFPB and Congress

The President neither signed nor vetoed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, proving that sometimes doing absolutely nothing is still enough to make a law. Policymakers are calling the leg...

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Louisville cannot solve a housing crisis while limiting who gets to build the solution

America has finally begun to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: We don’t simply have an affordable housing funding problem—we have an affordable housing production problem. The recently...

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DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards: Nina Quirk, Culinary Services Director, The Commons in Lincoln, a Benchmark Senior Living CCRC

Nina Quirk, Culinary Services Director at The Commons in Lincoln, a Benchmark Senior Living CCRC, has been named a member of the DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards Class of 2026 by Senio...

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