Housing

How Senior Living Operators Can ‘Keep It Simple’ to Boost Affordability

The senior living industry is struggling with affordability. Companies working on new projects should “keep it simple.” Many senior living communities are still too expensive for their pros...

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Ten years after: Schaefer Homes revs up its engines for growth

After spending much of its first decade laying the groundwork for growth, Maryland-based Schaefer Homes emerged as the eighth-fastest-growing homebuilder by residential sales volume in HousingWire’...

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Berkshire Taylor Morrison deal puts vertical integration in focus

Berkshire Hathaway’s planned acquisition of Taylor Morrison has opened the door for us to explore a set of uber-themed questions: about homebuilders’ present and future valuations, leadership and s...

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In the Pipeline: The Springs Living Starts in Washington; Momentum Senior Living Underway in California

In the Pipeline is part of your SHN+ subscription In the Pipeline is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Architecture & Design Awards, an annual competition that recognizes cutting...

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50 Chilling Discoveries Made Inside Old Abandoned Houses

Most days, a home is just a home. Walls, bricks, doors, windows, and whatever we’ve filled it with. But sometimes, there’s more to it than meets the eye. In the Facebook group A House With History,...

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RealTrends Verified 2026 shows higher sales volume for teams, agents in 2025

Despite yet another year of sluggish home sales, the nation’s top-performing real estate agents and teams continued to produce strong results in 2025. Over 50,000 agents and teams earned a ...

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How to choose the right type of senior living

Michele Holleran, CEO of DeArment Consulting, joins BRN to breaks down how senior living is evolving and what that means for older adults and younger generations planning for the future.Jeffrey Sny...

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2026 The Thousand: Yeatman Group scales after 747 sides in 2025

While some real estate team leaders begin their careers as solo agents, expanding into a team only when they feel established enough, being a team leader is all Kyle Yeatman knows. “I co...

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US adds 172,000 jobs in May, April data revised up

The U.S. economy’s strong job growth continued in May, adding 172,000 total nonfarm payroll jobs, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In addition to this growt...

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Trump says FHFA Director Bill Pulte will not serve as permanent DNI

Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), will not be the permanent director of national intelligence (DNI), President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday, following b...

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The real truth about the jobs data in 2026

Don’t call it a comeback, the labor market has been here for years, sending those recession scrubs back to another hemisphere. I digress with my Gen X music references, but the jobs data once again...

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2026 The Thousand: TruAdvantage Team builds on growth with new agent support hub

As the TruAdvantage Team builds momentum in the competitive Pennsylvania real estate market, its leaders are pairing rapid production with another focus — building structured paths for struggling a...

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Florida jury awards damages of $47.8M in buyer broker agreement dispute

In 2020, well before the real estate industry began debating the enforcement of buyer broker agreements — which became the norm after the National Association of Realtors‘ (NAR) commission lawsuit ...

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FHA Commissioner Frank Cassidy steps down

Frank Cassidy is stepping down from his role as Federal Housing Administration (FHA) commissioner and assistant secretary for housing at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a...

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Brian Davidson named Central Virginia president at Atlantic Builders

Atlantic Builders has appointed Brian Davidson as Central Virginia president and Robert L. Dodd Jr. as director of commercial construction, moves that expand the Fredericksburg, Virginia-based comp...

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Netcapital targets Resmac in $5 million mortgage banking asset deal

Netcapital Inc. struck a deal to acquire all of the mortgage banking assets and assumed liabilities of Resmac Inc. from parent company RezyFi Inc., a move that would create a new residential mortga...

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CFPB guidance points mortgage lenders to consider borrower immigration status

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Friday that lenders may be required to consider a borrower’s immigration status when evaluating their ability to repay a mortgage or other credi...

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Zillow’s MRED feed remains safe, but Realtracs showdown nears June 8 deadline

A federal judge in Chicago has extended Zillow’s temporary restraining order against Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) in the listing portal giant’s antitrust lawsuit against the Chicagoland MLS and ...

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Former DC housing official pleads guilty to mortgage fraud

A former employee of the District of Columbia Housing Authority who later became a real estate developer has pleaded guilty to federal charges — stemming from a yearslong scheme to secure millions ...

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HUD seeks feedback on FHA minimum property requirements

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is seeking public feedback on whether the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s property requirements for single-family homes should be u...

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Synergy One to merge with APM; Steve Majerus named president

American Pacific Mortgage (APM) has closed a merger deal to bring Synergy One Lending under its umbrella as a DBA, creating a mortgage production platform with roughly $14 billion in annual volume,...

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