Housing

eXp welcomes $70M Tim Stout Group team in Georgia

The Georgia-based Tim Stout Group is making the move to eXp Realty, according to an announcement on Wednesday. The team, which is named after its leader and founder Tim Stout, was previ...

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CHLA urges FHFA director to keep issues for small IMBs in mind

Given the current housing environment in the U.S., the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)’s new leader should prioritize the affordable housing footprint across the country, find ways to cut cos...

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How Senior Living Sales Teams Help Coach Prospects Through ‘I’m Not Ready’ Moments

“I’m not ready to move in” – it’s a common refrain among prospects going through the senior living sales journey. Often this is a result of the fact that older adults don’t know exactly what senior...

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Movers and Shakers: Jandris, Gardner Join Cushman & Wakefield; Former DaVinci Digital CEO Joins Kendal Corp.

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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Viva Senior Living Eyes Adding Up to 30 Communities in 2025 Growth Spurt

Viva Senior Living is on a fast growth pace in 2025, with plans to potentially bring on as many as 20 to 30 new communities this year alone. The Norwood, NJ-based company, now at 33 communi...

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Longbridge appoints new head of credit policy, underwriting and QC

Financial services veteran Patrick Halonen has joined reverse mortgage lender and servicer Longbridge Financial as the company’s new head of credit policy, underwriting and quality control. ...

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Mortgage industry veteran Tammy Richards takes on new role at Kind Lending

Chief operating officer Tammy Richards is taking on a new role at Kind Lending. Richards announced Tuesday on LinkedIn that she’s now the president of retail at Kind Lending, a move that comes a li...

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NRMLA supports Hawaii bill seeking state-run reverse mortgage program

After taking the time to digest elements of a proposal from lawmakers in Hawaii, the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association (NRMLA) has expressed support for a measure to establish a state-r...

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Harvard study suggests inflation, labor shortages threaten remodeling industry

The U.S. remodeling industry reached $600 billion in value following the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite recent softening in 2022 and 2023, it still remains 50% above pre-pandemic levels. Bu...

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Truework launches automated income verification platform

Truework bolstered its mortgage technology platform by creating a new tool, Truework Intelligence, the company announced on Thursday. The platform will give property managers and mortgage lenders a...

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Homebuilder confidence sinks on Trump’s tariff chaos

President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariff policy has homebuilders down in the dumps. The overall reading of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Marke...

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The rise and fall of great real estate brokerage firms

Paul Kennedy’s 1987 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers examined how dominant world powers reached extraordinary global influence, only to experience significant declines— often due to shift...

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Mortgage lenders emerge as CFPB defenders, with caveats

Since the inauguration of President Donald Trump, his administration has aggressively sought to curtail the functions of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This has led to a coordinat...

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Ardley named winner of TMC’s Mortgage Tech Demo Day

The Mortgage Collaborative‘s (TMC) Emerging Technology Fund hosted its seventh annual Mortgage Tech Demo Day (MTD) on March 16 at the collaborative’s “Live Large, Think Big!” conference in Arlingto...

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Ohio Realtors’ President Michelle Billings on building client relationships

In this week’s episode of the RealTrending podcast, host Tracey Velt sits down with Ohio Realtors President Michelle Billings, an agent at Coldwell Banker Realty in Montgomery, Ohio. They e...

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Trump prepares to develop affordable housing on federal lands

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner and U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Doug Burgum on Monday announced a joint task force on Federal L...

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SERHANT.’s new $500M Phoenix team marks its first expansion in the west

Ryan Serhant is headed west. His eponymous brokerage SERHANT. has entered Phoenix with the addition of a collection of brokerages that have closed more than $500 million in sales volume over...

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Plaintiffs in lead gen fraud suit against Move forced into arbitration

The National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) currently has a lot on its plate — from the ongoing debate over its Clear Cooperation Policy, to the current uptick in industry consolidation — but the B...

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William Raveis settles the commission lawsuits

William Raveis has added its name to the ever growing list of brokerage defendants who have settled the commission lawsuits. Last Wednesday, the east coast-based firm filed a joint motion w...

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NAR: Black homeownership is on the rise, but a large racial gap remains

While the white homeownership rate still leads all racial groups in the U.S., Black homeowners have had some significant gains recently. The Black homeownership rate saw the largest year-ov...

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HUD approves then rescinds funds for NY housing groups

The Trump administration was set to release millions in federal grants to New York City organizations that house formerly homeless individuals on Friday, but recent court orders are delaying the ef...

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