Housing

Trump’s AI order unlikely to slow adoption of AI in real estate

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order calling for creation of a voluntary review framework for the nation’s most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models before public rel...

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PulteGroup unveils its first Florida Del Webb Explore community

PulteGroup, ranked as the third-largest homebuilder by sales volume in HousingWire’s Homebuilder Rankings, held a grand opening for its first Florida Del Webb Explore community on May 30. ...

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How Senior Living Operators Help New Residents Deal With Downsizing

Senior living residents have a lot of stuff, often too much – it’s a story that move-in coordinators across the country know well. But downsizing doesn’t need to be stressful for residents. ...

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Social Security, Medicare solvency could be examined by bipartisan commission

Legislation under consideration in Congress would create a bipartisan commission of experts tasked with developing long-term reform options for Social Security and Medicare. Rather than ...

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American House Takes On Full Profit, Loss Responsibility, Signaling ‘Aggressive’ Growth Push Ahead

American House Senior Living is more than just a senior living management arm. The operator now exists as a vertically integrated component of commercial real estate, development, investment, const...

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Who can buy a top-20 builder now? Berkshire resets board calculus

Berkshire Hathaway‘s planned acquisition of No. 6-ranked homebuilder Taylor Morrison begs big follow-on questions. These mostly spring from who this particular buyer is and the moment they have cho...

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Homeowners have record equity and won’t touch it. Loan data explains why

American homeowners are sitting on $17 trillion in equity. The average mortgaged borrower holds $295,000. By any historical standard, these are people with options. And yet, when a $14,0...

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Hollywood, Florida invokes Live Local 4.0 to battle Broward County

Florida’s Live Local 4.0 isn’t law yet, but it passed the Legislature with near-unanimous margins. One Florida municipality, Hollywood, isn’t waiting for Gov. Ron DeSantis’s signature. N...

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The Real Brokerage adds NŌVEM team across NYC markets

NŌVEM Real Estate, a 10-agent boutique team led by New York City broker Ethan Leifer, has joined The Real Brokerage, the company announced Tuesday. The move expands Real’s footprint acro...

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Lofty launches client transaction portal

Lofty has introduced its new Client Transaction Portal designed to improve communication and collaboration between real estate agents and their clients throughout the transaction process. ...

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Plaintiffs’ attorney offers to exit loanDepot class action over conflict of interest

Ari Karen, a partner at Mitchell Sandler PLLC, has submitted a motion to withdraw as counsel for borrowers who filed a class-action lawsuit against loanDepot in July 2025 amid a dispute over confli...

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CFPB works with Bilt on redress after Wells Fargo transition

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said it has been working with Bilt Rewards to address consumer issues that arose during the company’s transition to a new banking partner, opting for...

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Better, Coinbase fund Fannie Mae-backed bitcoin mortgage

Better Home & Finance Holding Co. and Coinbase have funded what the companies say is the first Fannie Mae-backed mortgage in the U.S. that uses bitcoin as collateral, marking a new step in the ...

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Florida, California counties top ATTOM list of high-risk housing markets

Unemployment and foreclosure activity were the primary drivers of housing market risk in the first quarter of 2026, with clusters of vulnerable counties in Florida and California along with safer m...

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Lawmakers urge FTC to probe real estate referral practices

Two federal lawmakers are urging Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson to investigate the referral practices of online real estate platforms. In a letter sent to Chair...

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Newfi integrates Prudent AI for non-QM income analysis

Newfi Lending has integrated Prudent AI’s income analysis engine into its broker portal, giving brokers near real-time calculations for non-QM loans and cutting bank-statement turn times from rough...

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HECM broker rankings hold steady in March as Atlantic Avenue stays at No. 1

The country’s largest reverse mortgage brokerages based on February activity continued to set the pace in March across the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) space, according to endorsement dat...

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Achieve expands fixed-rate HELOC with $700,000 cap

Achieve has expanded its fixed-rate home equity line of credit (HELOC) program, raising the maximum loan amount to $700,000 and lowering its lowest available annual percentage rate to 5.5% for qual...

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Hopes of Bigger Development Year in 2026 Fading as Senior Living Operators Turn Inward

This story is part of your SHN+ subscription Last year was not the big year for new development that the senior living industry hoped for. Now, almost halfway into 2026, owners, operator...

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Secondary mortgage market waits for data, creates workarounds amid shift to alternative credit scores

Mortgage lenders are rolling out new credit scoring models, but in the secondary market, investors and credit rating agencies are awaiting additional performance data while developing workarounds t...

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NALHFA: HUD cuts would worsen housing affordability challenges

Affordable housing advocates are warning that proposed reductions to several key U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs could make it harder for communities to address pers...

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