Housing

Gershman Mortgage, Truss Financial Group launch separate HELOC offerings

As millions of homeowners remain locked into low mortgage rates, lenders are introducing new home equity products designed to help borrowers access accumulated equity without refinancing their firs...

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Chris Rediger: How a Google real estate pilot went from a softball field chat to nationwide

Last month, Google made some waves announcing that it was taking its real estate listing pilot program nationwide. While the nationwide expansion of the program, which is powered by a partnership w...

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12 Oaks Senior Living Appoints President Greg Puklicz CEO

DALLAS — 12 Oaks Senior Living has appointed President Greg Puklicz the role of chief executive officer. Puklicz has served as president of the company since December 2021. Previous CEO Richard K. ...

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HomeAdvantage partners with Valley First on real estate rewards

HomeAdvantage has partnered with Valley First Credit Union to offer a real estate rewards program and cash-back incentives to the California credit union’s 80,000 members, the companies announced o...

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HUD suspends Virgin Islands housing authority funding over fraud concerns

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has suspended funding to the Virgin Islands Housing Finance Authority (VIHFA) after an investigation uncovered what the agency described as wide...

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Manhattan project contractor error eyed in conversion collapse

A partial building collapse in New York City may more likely be explained by contractor error than from inherent risks in large-scale office-to-residential conversions. An engineer on th...

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300,000-plus listed lots highlight infill boon for builders, per Zillow

Building a single home on each of the more than 300,000 empty lots listed for sale on Zillow in June could shrink the nation’s housing shortage by about 6.3%, according to new research from the lis...

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Future Leader: Madisen Medley, Vice President of Business Development, Merrill Gardens

Madisen Medley, Vice President of Business Development at Merrill Gardens, has been named to the Future Leaders Class of 2026 by Senior Housing News. To become a Future Leader, an individual...

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Senior housing wealth reaches record level in first quarter

Housing wealth among homeowners age 62 and older rebounded to a record $14.92 trillion in the first quarter of 2026 after declining in the previous two quarters, according to the latest National Re...

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Rechat launches AI voice assistant campaign

Rechat has launched “Hey Lucy,” a new video-first advertising campaign highlighting how real estate agents can manage their business entirely through voice commands using Lucy, the company’s AI ass...

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Student loan defaults are rising, and Sun Belt demand may soften

Student loan delinquencies and defaults have trended upward since October 2025, when pandemic-driven policy leniency hit a hard deadline. The three U.S. credit bureaus resumed capturing and reporti...

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From automation to intelligence: Why enterprise AI mortgage operations are reshaping the industry

Artificial intelligence has introduced hundreds of tools to the mortgage industry, but many lenders are still struggling with rising costs, fragmented workflows and inconsistent productivity. Accor...

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We are not ready for the next housing downturn

The pandemic wrought financial havoc across the economy, but its impact on the housing market was significantly reduced due to a whole-of-government response that enabled millions of families to st...

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Is the Zestimate era coming to an end?

For nearly two decades, consumers have had the ability to answer one of life’s biggest financial questions almost instantly: “What is my home worth?” Today, millions of homeowners monito...

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How high can mortgage rates go with Iran conflict 2.0?

It’s Monday and the Iran conflict looks like it will hit its 10th day straight of renewed missile and drone attacks. Oil prices are up a smidge today and the question now is: how much higher can mo...

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AD Mortgage flags condo reserve rules in FHFA letter

AD Mortgage has launched a public policy initiative aimed at increasing its engagement with federal and state policymakers on housing finance issues, beginning with recommendations to the Federal H...

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Active Adult Average Occupancy Nears 93% as New Growth Stalls

Average active adult occupancy increased 1.4 percentage points to 92.6% in the second quarter of 2026, 0.3 percentage points higher than the same period last year, according to a new analysis by NI...

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Compass moves from AI content creation to AI task execution in Home Platform

Compass International Holdings has introduced AI Assistant, a conversational agent embedded across its new Home Platform that lets real estate professionals describe what they want to do and have t...

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Movers and Shakers: Trinity Health PACE Welcomes Medical Leader; Ingleside Community Takes Co-Leader Approach

Movers & Shakers is brought to you by the Senior Housing News Job Board. Browse and apply to management and executive senior living jobs and positions from leading professional firms serving th...

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M/I, Meritage team up to fund $7.6M bridge to growth in a Texas town

A new public-private partnership in Central Texas solves for a common stumbling block for homebuilders, who face having to balance home price affordability with the public infrastructure investment...

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The Holiday acquisition is about Daiwa House’s next decade

The long game Was never about one Acquisition Viewed through a sharply narrowed lens of a single transaction, Holiday Builders adds another respected, cycle-tested, deeply regionally inv...

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