Veteran real estate agent Debbie Baum is making the move to Brown Harris Stevens from Corcoran, according to an announcement on Wednesday.  Baum has more than 23 years of experience serving residential real estate clients in Manhattan. Earlier on in her professional career, Baum spent over 20 years

Addy AI, a loan officer workflow platform, announced this week a partnership with ICE Mortgage Technology to integrate with the Encompass loan origination system. The integration, which aims to help loan officers spend less time reading PDFs, chasing documents and interpreting findings, is designed

The U.S. housing market is entering spring with improving demand and rising supply, but the balance of power is shifting at the metro level. Weekly pending home sales returned to year-over-year growth at 59,283, up from 56,693 during the same week last year. New listings increased to 60,428, compare

Advancements in health care mean that Americans are living longer than ever. Data from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that U.S. residents born in 2024 have an average life expectancy of 79, an increase of more than six months compared to 2023. While a longer life span is positive ne

Despite recording the 59th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth during the fourth quarter of 2025, with revenue jumping 27% to $900 million, CoStar Group’s financial results may not have been as strong as many expected given the firm’s recent rhetoric about how well the company is perf

President Donald Trump delivered the annual State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night and touched on a wide variety of economic topics. But he barely mentioned ways to make housing more affordable for everyday Americans. Housing professionals expected the speech to include subjects lik

We intended to dig into LGI Homes’ fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings last week. Then the National Association of Home Builders’ International Builders’ Show happened in Orlando, and the days became a blur of conversations, walking meetings, and on-the-fly triangulation among builders, capit

The real estate listing portal space has generated its fair share of headlines over the last several months. While Zillow, Homes.com and Redfin have been stealing most of the spotlight, Realtor.com has also issued some announcements of its own. HousingWire recently caught up with Realtor.com CEO Dam

Cypress, California-based LenderMac Holdco LLC has agreed to acquire Direct Mortgage Corp. in a move aimed at expanding its geographic footprint and building a multichannel mortgage platform, the companies announced Tuesday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “This acquisition represent

AI-powered mortgage underwriting platform Friday Harbor announced Tuesday the launch of a new set of tools called Income and Asset Sandbox, which are designed to help loan officers structure income and asset decisions earlier in the origination process. The tools allow lending teams to test how diff

Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) is seeing an “overwhelmingly positive” response from mortgage servicers in response to its newly updated MSP platform user interface, as servicers view the update as the first step in a broader push toward automation and AI-driven efficiencies. The update marks t

The Campaign for Accountability (CfA), a nonpartisan watchdog group, has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The group alleges the FHFA failed to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that sought access to a report prepared by FHFA Director Bill Pulte about

Houlihan Lawrence is strengthening its presence in Yonkers, New York, with the addition of eight new agents, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Among these additions is the Vision Alliance Team, led by Rahhim and Tara Shillingford. Rahhim Shillingford is the former principal broker of Vision A

Georgia affordable housing developers revived an effort to amend the state constitution to shield their properties from steep property tax hikes. State Rep. Shaw Blackmon, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, and State Rep. Rob Leverett officially introduced a constitutional amendment on Mo

The Real Brokerage is strengthening its presence in the luxury housing market of The Woodlands, Texas. The firm announced Tuesday that Haley Garcia and her five agent team Garcia Real Estate Group are making the move to Real after leaving Keller Williams Realty – The Woodlands.  The team will be joi

In the two-thousand-mid-teens, you would not have needed a crystal ball to predict that three Japan-based vertically integrated real estate powerhouses would each rank among the nation’s top 15 enterprises. That’s because each of those three organizations – Daiwa House, Sekisui House and Sumitomo Fo

Leadership at C2 Financial is looking to reclaim a top wholesale ranking by strengthening its infrastructure, leveraging artificial intelligence, recruiting and mentoring the next generation of loan officers, and expanding from 42 states to nationwide coverage. In 2021, C2 was ranked No. 1 on Inman’

Housing affordability is usually framed through numbers: mortgage rates, housing supply, construction costs and zoning restrictions. Washington debates the numbers, and families feel the squeeze. But there is another housing cost hiding in plain sight—real estate fraud. With Congress working on bipa

Investor sentiment in the fix-and-flip housing market improved at the end of 2025, even as overall transaction volume fell to its lowest level in a decade. That’s according to a recent survey conducted by Kiavi and John Burns Research & Consulting. In the fourth quarter of 2025, the Burns + Kiavi Fi

After a weekend of crazy headlines and a stock sell-off on Monday morning, bond yields are close to hitting 4% again, but mortgage rates are back under 6% once again, which is the multiyear low in recent history. The biggest reason rates are under 6% isn’t just that the 2025 labor market produced th