Housing

The next phase of The Real Brokerage’s AI is replacing the work, not the agent

The Real Brokerage is rolling out Leo 2.0, an AI assistant built into its proprietary reZEN platform that automates back-office work, marketing and lead generation for agents. The system — in beta ...

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Inventory is down year over year, but months of supply says the market is functioning

Housing inventory is down year over year, and price growth stands at 2.0% per the NAR existing home sales report. That combination might seem bad for affordability, but the truth is housing invento...

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Housing Market Spotlight: Price cuts and the battle for leverage

The share of homes with price cuts is getting closer to where it was a year ago. For the week ending Aug. 7, 41.44% of active single-family listings nationally had taken a price cut, com...

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Two Harbors calls UWM lawsuit ‘frivolous,’ slams management for $600M hedge loss

Two Harbors Investment Corp. is pushing back on a lawsuit filed this week by UWM Holdings Corp., calling the complaint “frivolous,” “meritless” and “illogical” while defending its decision to aband...

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MoxiWorks expands RISE ecosystem with Cloze integration

MoxiWorks has integrated its native-AI relationship intelligence platform, RISE, with Cloze, an AI-powered real estate platform, to automatically sync contacts and activity between the two systems,...

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Jeff Glover exits ownership of Michigan Keller Williams locations

Jeff Glover, founder of Live Unreal Companies, has transitioned ownership and leadership of the three Keller Williams market centers he owned in Michigan to new owners, concluding his ownership jou...

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Optimal Blue’s Kevin Foley discusses AI Labs, Virtual Economist rollout

Earlier this week, Optimal Blue announced the general availability of Virtual Economist, an artificial intelligence-powered forecasting tool designed to help mortgage capital markets leaders analyz...

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CPI inflation cools in July as shelter rises 0.1%

Inflation pulled back slightly in July, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. After falling 0.4% month-over-month in June, the Consumer Price Index for ...

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DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards: Getty Lustre, Culinary Services Director, Leisure Vale Assisted Living

Getty Lustre, Culinary Services Director at Leisure Vale Assisted Living, has been named a member of the DISHED Senior Living Dining Innovation Awards Class of 2026 by Senior Housing News. ...

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PMB, Pillar Properties to Develop 295,000 SF Community at San Diego State University

SAN DIEGO — PMB and Pillar Properties will develop a new senior living community at San Diego State University. Dubbed SDSU Mission Valley, the project will total 295,000 square feet across...

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Senate bill targets senior homeowner tax credit for aging-in-place modifications

A new proposal in the Senate is targeting senior homeowners looking to age in place more effectively by offering them a tax credit that would pay for essential home modifications. On Aug...

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DOJ, Rocket Mortgage seek pause in fair housing case as potential settlement pursued

The Department of Justice (DOJ), Rocket Mortgage and other defendants are asking a federal court to pause discovery and pretrial deadlines in a 2024 Fair Housing Act case while the parties pursue a...

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Interview With Richard Hutchinson, CEO of Discovery Senior Living

By Matt Valley Richard Hutchinson The past year has been a momentous one for Richard Hutchinson and Discovery Senior Living, the largest privately held seniors housing operator in the...

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Real estate brokerage software: Our 15 top picks for 2026 (+ 6 AI innovators)

With real estate technology changing faster than new agents answering their phones, finding that Goldilocks mix of real estate brokerage software that works for your brokerage isn’t easy. Most brok...

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16 indispensable AI tools for real estate agents

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools equip real estate agents with unprecedented capabilities. While ChatGPT has become a go-to tool for many of us, there are tons of AI tools for real estate that of...

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NEXA Lending sues ex-employee over abusive conduct, trade secret accusations

NEXA Lending is back in court, but this time the company is suing a former employee for allegedly violating his NEXA contract, misappropriating trade secrets, and publishing false and damaging stat...

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Thad Wong warns against AI replacing the personal client connection

Technology has long been a focus for Thad Wong, the co-founder and co-CEO of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate, which is now owned by Compass International Holdings. In fact, he bui...

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AI can help sellers list homes, agents still drive net proceeds

Every few weeks a new headline arrives, and it follows the same recipe. A home seller types a handful of prompts into an AI chatbot, lists their home without an agent and reportedly pockets a five-...

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How AI can power a leaner, meaner homebuilding land team

AI’s move beyond talk, hype and possibility, to where it’s powering business operations and results was a constant theme at HousingWire’s AI Summit, held on Tuesday, in Dallas. For homeb...

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Mortgage applications climb 3.6% after slight drop in rates

Mortgage applications increased 3.6% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)’s weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending August 7, 2026. ...

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Real estate leaders weigh buying vs building AI tools

Incorporating artificial intelligence into workflows and businesses has become a non-negotiable for housing companies that want to succeed. But as many business leaders look to integrate and implem...

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