Housing

Portland revamps downtown zoning, office conversions in focus

About a third of commercial real estate in downtown Portland, Oregon, is vacant, city officials say, a byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic and hybrid work models. City officials in one of...

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Better founder Vishal Garg lines up voting majority to retake control

Vishal Garg, the founder and former CEO of Better Home & Finance Holding Co., is seeking to regain control of the company after securing support from shareholders holding a majority of its voti...

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How Taylor Morrison tracks one division’s offsite component gains

Battling soft margins, dicey demand and chronic labor shortages, can homebuilders leverage a pivot to factory-built components as an offset to build more efficiently and scale with fewer workers?Th...

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New Coldwell Banker Affiliates president speaks on AI, rates, luxury market

Mary Lee Blaylock recently stepped into the role of president at Coldwell Banker Affiliates, bringing more than 30 years of residential real estate experience to the position. Her appoin...

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Dream Finders Beazer acquisition sets new industry scale bar

Dream Finders Homes’ agreement to acquire Beazer Homes for $33.50 per share brings an end to homebuilding’s most dramatic takeover contest of 2026. What the deal says about what comes ne...

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Side CEO says independents are the future, launches SideOS

While much of the housing industry is focused on the current wave of consolidation consuming the space, real estate brokerage Side is placing its bet on local and regional independent brokerages be...

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Friday essay: we’re all ‘political’ now – but can that lead to real change?

It was the summer of 2024 in Carindale, Queensland. I had gone to a salon for lashes and somehow found myself inside a political monologue. The gen Z eyelash artist was white, university educat...

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Acrisure Mortgage names Todd Boss president

Acrisure Mortgage announced Thursday that it has appointed Todd Boss as president, succeeding Joe Nunziata, who was recently promoted to president of Acrisure Real Estate Services. Boss ...

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American Healthcare REIT to Acquire 8 Kensington Senior Living Communities for $873M

American Healthcare REIT (NYSE: AHR) is picking up a portfolio of eight communities managed by Kensington Senior Living for $873 million. According to a recent financial disclosure rel...

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Private listings face House and Senate scrutiny but Washington can’t sell a home

The private listings fight now has both chambers of Congress. It still stops one door short of the room where your income is decided. For four months, the fight over private listings has...

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Figure posts Q2 revenue jump, net take rate holds at 3.6%

Figure Technology Solutions reported a sharp increase in second-quarter revenue and net income as its consumer loan marketplace volume more than doubled from a year earlier. But analysts flagged a ...

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Mortgage delinquencies eased in Q2, still higher than 2025

Mortgage delinquencies for one- to four-unit residential properties declined slightly in the second quarter, but they remained elevated from a year earlier as more borrowers moved into later stages...

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Opendoor cites rising acquisition contracts as it funds growth with 0% notes

Opendoor is launching a share repurchase program as part of a series of transactions the company said would add “$440 million of growth capital to the balance sheet at a 0% coupon while reducing sh...

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The Inc. 5000 just named 17 of real estate’s fastest-growing brokerages

Residential real estate brokerages claimed 17 spots on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list — led by Houston-based Epique Realty — which landed among the top 10 overall companies across all industries. E...

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MRED warns Zillow lawsuit could revive MLS antitrust risks

Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) is warning that its legal dispute with Zillow over listing display rules could undermine long-standing federal antitrust principles governing multiple listing servic...

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Engel & Völkers adds high-producing Silicon Valley agent

Top Silicon Valley real estate professional Dawn Thomas has joined Engel & Völkers Gestalt Group following her departure from Compass, bringing more than 22 years of experience and $675 million...

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Cotality: Wildfire risk threatens $1.4T in properties across western states

More than 2.5 million properties across the 10 most exposed western states face a moderate or greater risk of wildfire damage, representing nearly $1.4 trillion in reconstruction cost value (RCV), ...

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MLS leaders say AI requires a new approach to governing real estate data

As artificial intelligence changes how real estate data is accessed, analyzed and deployed, two of the nation’s largest MLS leaders say the industry needs to rethink the infrastructure governing th...

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Newrez agrees to $15.5M settlement over forced-place insurance

Newrez has agreed to pay $15.5 million to resolve a multistate examination that found the mortgage servicer improperly charged some borrowers for lender-placed insurance despite having evidence of ...

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Senior Living CTOs Balance Efficiency, Human Touch in Tech Rollouts

Senior living providers are using technology to create more personalized experiences for older adults as they adopt to trends like AI. That’s according to Ziegler’s second Chief Technolo...

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Sagora Senior Living Invests in Memory Care Training to Boost Empathy, Care Coordination

Sagora Senior Living is investing in new training for staff within its Pathways memory care program in an effort to better educate staff, families and the public about dementia and cognitive change...

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