Housing

2026 housing market sees more balance as inventory rises and price growth slows

The national housing market posted a significant increase in new listing activity this week as seasonal momentum builds. With mortgage rates steady near 6% and spreads closer to normal levels, earl...

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Seattle-based mega team joins Real from Compass

The Real Brokerage announced that Seattle-based real estate leader Sean McConnell and his team The McConnell Group have joined the company — adding 34 agents and expanding Real’s footprint in the g...

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Trump announces investor ‘ban,’ MBS purchases and credit card rate cap in Davos

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will not “become a nation of renters” as he announced what he described as a “ban” on large institutional investors purchasing single-family homes during his sp...

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Survey shows distrust of real estate investors in housing market

Nearly three-fourths of Americans (73%) blame real estate investors for the lack of affordable housing in the U.S. That’s according to a new survey by real estate research and services platform, Cl...

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Pending home sales fell sharply in December

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) on Wednesday released its Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI) for December, which shows that the housing market ended 2025 on a downturn. “The housing...

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Design That Belongs: Senior Living Communities Should Reflect Their Surroundings

By Martin Kimmel For too long, the senior living industry has approached design with a troubling assumption — older adults want old-looking things. Colonial windows. Shutters. This type of t...

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Industry CEOs Plan Effort to Solve Workforce Challenges, Utilize $3B in Funding

PHOENIX — Seniors housing CEOs are planning to collaborate on an effort to solve workforce challenges and tap into the more than $3 billion in workforce funding available through federal, state and...

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StepStone, Blue Moon Complete $250M Refinancing of Seniors Housing Portfolio

NEW YORK CITY — StepStone Real Estate, the real estate arm of New York City-based investment firm StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP), and Blue Moon Capital Partners have completed a $250 million refina...

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Charter Senior Living, Paradise Management to Develop 162-Unit Community in Pennsylvania

WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Charter Senior Living and Paradise Management are partnering on the development of a new community in West Chester. Upon completion, the community — Charter Senior Livin...

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Dementia Experts Cautious But Encouraged After Study Shows Evidence of Reversing Alzheimer’s

New research from Case Western Reserve University was recently heralded as a big step forward in the fight to not only slow but reverse the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease. Senior living memory care...

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Memory Care Operators Embrace Restaurant-Style Dining to Serve Newest Residents

Memory care operators are revamping dining for their residents, pivoting away from a clinical approach and toward restaurant-style experiences. In the past, memory care dining was less resi...

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Supreme Court appears skeptical of Trump’s bid to remove Fed’s Lisa Cook

For nearly two hours on Wednesday, the Supreme Court discussed President Donald Trump’s bid to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who is accused of committing mortgage fraud by allegedly misr...

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HUD suspends FHA loan approval for Equity Prime Mortgage, RAC in several markets

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has “revoked” the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loan approval authority of Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) and Residential Acceptance C...

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Trump signs executive order targeting institutional investors

Following a Jan. 7 promise that he “was taking steps” to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes in the U.S., President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to shut...

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New playbook maps the choices facing MLS and association leaders

With the National Association of Realtors (NAR) announcing it was taking a step back from policy creation and enforcement, effectively handing power back to local MLSs and associations in November,...

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Refinance demand soars 20% after rates dropped last week

Mortgage applications increased 14.1% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending January 16, 2026...

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How Compass grew so quickly and why its playbook is shifting again

Compass founder and CEO Robert Reffkin started with a simple goal: build a modern, tech-forward company that helps agents do more business with less friction. But the speed of Compass’s...

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Fair housing is more than a compliance issue: It’s an opportunity to modernize the process.

Fair housing is often discussed in broad terms but is perhaps not always clearly defined. At its core, Fair Housing (capital F and H) refers to an interwoven framework of federal, state, and local ...

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Beyond the database: Why 1:1 AI is the new benchmark for authority and market share

For today’s mortgage leadership, the most expensive asset on the balance sheet is the borrower’s attention. Yet, in an era defined by an “attention economy,” the industry has spent a decade devalui...

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Do home sellers lose billions to high agent commissions?

A report released Tuesday by the Consumer Policy Center (CPC) claims that Americans are overlooking thousands of dollars in savings on home sales, which they attribute to consumers “grossly overpay...

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Balanced budgets, fewer staff, bigger promises: NAR lays out its post-crisis roadmap

In its push for increased transparency and accountability, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) has released an Annual Report for 2025. The report, which was released Tuesday, dis...

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