Housing

Wealthfront announces entrance into the mortgage business

Wealthfront, a fintech known for low-cost investing and savings products, is entering the mortgage business. The California-headquartered company announced Wednesday that was offering ea...

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Transforming Senior Living: Inspiren’s AI-Powered Ecosystem

The senior living industry faces acute challenges: high staff turnover, lack of transparency around quality of care, and poor tracking of the amount of care residents do receive. Operators are unde...

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Mortgage applications fall 5.2% after rates rise again

Mortgage applications slumped 5.2% from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)’s weekly mortgage applications survey for the week ending Nov. 14. On ...

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Where manufactured homes are filling the housing affordability gap

Manufactured housing continues to widen its reach, led by the Sunbelt, where warm climates, flexible zoning and lower land costs make factory-built homes a durable affordability option. ...

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When AI says ‘Turn Yourself In’: A real estate broker’s cautionary tale

At Zillow’s Unlock event recently in Vegas, I told a room absolutely packed with real estate agents to use artificial intelligence but only if they do so responsibly. My tone? I didn’t mince words ...

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CrossCountry Mortgage issues $600M in debt for MSR repayments

CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) issued $600 million in debt, primarily to repay an outstanding mortgage servicing rights (MSR) line of credit, among other general corporate purposes, the company announ...

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LCS, Discovery, Five Star Top Latest J.D. Power Senior Living Satisfaction Survey

LCS, Discovery Senior Living and AlerisLife’s Five Star Senior Living brand have registered as the top-scored operators in the latest J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Senior Living Satisfaction Study. ...

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Liquidity, insurance premiums top demands in review of HUD’s reverse mortgage programs

Facing what they describe as a broad request for information (RFI) on potential changes to federal reverse mortgage programs, industry experts are focusing on two pressing issues: mortgage insuranc...

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A rising threat to homeownership: How heirs’ property undermines affordable housing

A 2021 NPR podcast segment painted a picture of the American Dream turned Nightmare: a Louisiana family faced the loss of their five-generation-home that had been owned by the family’s great, great...

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Embracing innovation to thrive in shifting mortgage market

Why innovation matters now In today’s market conditions, lenders who identify strategic opportunities and innovate their operations now stand to gain a competitive advantage. Historicall...

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How long-term structural shifts are reinforcing build-to-rent’s tailwinds

Affordability challenges, evolving demographics, and shifting internal migration are profoundly changing the U.S. housing market, impacting not only renters but investors, too. These winds of chang...

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Is NAR’s move to allow non-Realtors MLS access a nothing burger?

Starting in January, local MLSs will have a lot more control over things like disciplinary actions and even who can access the MLS. These changes are the result of an 18-policy update approved by t...

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Frontier Senior Living Hits Reset After Shedding Almost 100 Communities

This story is part of your SHN+ subscription A few years ago, Frontier Senior Living was among the largest operators of memory care communities in the U.S. with a portfolio managing more tha...

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EverTrue Names COO to Lead Next Growth Chapter

Nonprofit senior living provider EverTrue has named Russ Mast as chief operating officer to help lead the organization’s growth efforts. Mast will start effective on Dec. 17th and he brings...

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Foreclosure activity up nearly 20% in October

ATTOM released its October 2025 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, showing 36,766 properties with foreclosure filings — including default notices, scheduled auctions or bank repossessions — a 3% incre...

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Bright MLS to integrate ICE’s Paragon Connect platform

ICE Mortgage Technology and Bright MLS, the nation’s largest multiple listing service (MLS), announced that Bright will integrate ICE’s Paragon Connect MLS platform into its technology ecosystem as...

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Brookdale Senior Living Names COO to Oversee Regional Management Model

Brookdale Senior Living (NYSE: BKD) on Tuesday named Mary Sue Patchett as the company’s chief operating officer. Patchett, who currently serves as interim executive vice president of commun...

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When land strategy meets AI: homebuilders gain a new edge

Strategic paralysis in a buyer-stuck market If land is the lifeblood of homebuilding, then today’s land strategy is a pressure test of a company’s core strength. But how do you act when the ...

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PHH Mortgage will halt reverse originations, sell MSRs to Finance of America

Onity Group — the parent company of PHH Mortgage Corp. and its reverse mortgage arm, Liberty Reverse Mortgage — announced on Tuesday that the company has entered into a “strategic relationship” wit...

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Beazer Homes shifts to move-up buyers, bets on energy efficiency

As major builders like D.R. Horton and Tri Pointe Homes trim new home starts to protect margins, Beazer Homes is taking a page out of Lennar’s playbook. Beazer’s Q4 earnings call reveals...

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Figure unveils industry-first blockchain stock offering

Figure Technology Solutions Inc. filed a registration statement on Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed public offering of its Series A Blockchain Common Stock, m...

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