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Better Mortgage and Coinbase moved their token-backed conforming mortgage into general availability Wednesday, letting borrowers pledge Bitcoin or USDC to fund a down payment without selling it.
Nuveen closed on more than $1 billion for the fourth vintage of its C-PACE lending fund series, bringing total commitments to $3 billion as insurers treat the asset class as a standing allocation.
Of every dollar you can spend preparing a home for sale, none works harder than the few you spend on light bulbs. I have watched a dark, tunnel-like kitchen become the brightest room in the house — and a genuine selling feature — from nothing more than swapping old can-light bulbs for the right LEDs. … Read more
Real REMAX Group closed its acquisition of RE/MAX Holdings on Aug. 24 and began trading on the Nasdaq as REAX on Tuesday, creating a 180,000-agent company backed by a new $550 million term loan.
The FDIC, NCUA, OCC, CFPB, HUD, DOJ and FHFA jointly withdrew the 2022 interagency statement that encouraged lenders to offer special purpose credit programs, effective immediately upon Federal Register publication Tuesday.
New single-family home sales fell to a 607,000 annual rate in July, but only the Midwest’s 42.7% collapse and a rise in unsold inventory clear the Census Bureau’s statistical significance test.
S&P Cotality Case-Shiller and FHFA both showed home prices accelerating modestly in June, but housing lost ground to inflation for a 13th straight month and the Midwest-West gap kept widening.
The Blackstone-backed developer has 4 gigawatts of leased capacity operating and more than 15 gigawatts of powered land in the pipeline — the scarce commodity in the AI buildout.
The committee formed to respond to the founder’s campaign to replace the board said the decision to move on from him was unanimous among the other directors, and laid out operating results to argue the company is better off without him.
Two years after the May 2024 derecho and Hurricane Beryl, the city began taking applications Monday for repair grants of up to $100,000 and full reconstruction of up to $300,000.
Active listings across Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria, Va., rose nearly 20% year over year while national inventory fell — and the region’s median price went the opposite direction from the country’s.
Closed sales dropped to roughly 11,700 from 13,000 in June, and the statewide median slipped to $330,000 — though prices remain 4.7% above a year ago and listings are still tighter than last summer.
A stipulated order filed the morning trial was set to open requires Redfin to rebuild the rental advertising business it exited in 2025, and strips the restrictions the FTC said Zillow’s $100 million payment bought.
The governor gave the Texas Department of Insurance until Sept. 14 to recommend further changes, and ordered five immediate actions including a ban on price optimization and a prohibition on non-renewals based on a home’s age.
Builders who started five or fewer homes last year reported a 9.1% median increase in material costs, while builders with 100 or more starts reported 1.8% — a gap that helps explain why consolidation keeps accelerating.
The last regulatory approval has landed and the deal is set to close before Tuesday’s market open, taking a publicly traded mortgage servicing rights REIT private inside one of the country’s largest retail lenders.
The fire that started Saturday near Verdi remains at zero containment, with damage assessments still pending across neighborhoods on the western edge of the Reno housing market.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management raised its 2026 U.S. commercial real estate transaction volume forecast 12% to $635 billion, citing constrained supply and repriced assets as an attractive entry point.
Access Point Financial and TMGOC Ventures co-originated $120 million in bridge financing and preferred equity for Kailas Companies’ office-to-hotel conversion in downtown New Orleans.
The hurricane-resistant Punta Gorda community that survived Hurricane Ian without losing power will host a new Southwest Florida Resilience Accelerator launching in October, as new home sales climb nearly 30% this quarter.
BevyHouse is testing whether factory-built homes can cut Altadena’s wildfire rebuild timeline from 18 months to six, delivering a five-module house near Fair Oaks Avenue.
Zurich-based Lookthrough and Berlin-based BuildingMinds are combining to build an AI decision-intelligence platform covering more than 100,000 buildings across 64 countries.
Median listing prices fell 2.4% year over year in July as sellers priced more realistically from the start, cutting delistings and pushing contract signings to their highest level since 2022.
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and Arizona water officials brace for a federal rule reallocating Colorado River water, with economists warning mandated cuts could slow homebuilding in one of the nation’s fastest-growing metros.
Massachusetts House and Senate bills tackle zoning reform through different routes — YIGBY on religious land versus statewide duplexes-by-right — after rent stabilization was knocked off the table by the courts.
Redfin data shows Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth have all tipped into buyer’s-market territory, with Houston posting the widest seller-buyer gap in the state.
RealReports’ redesigned Business Momentum Engine expands its Aiden AI assistant to proactively surface prospecting and past-client opportunities as existing-home sales sit near a 30-year low.
JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo and Bank of America have each rolled out major housing-supply initiatives, led by JPMorgan’s $750 billion, decade-long American Dream Initiative.
Florida Realtors’ Board of Directors voted to support Amendment 3, the November ballot measure raising the homestead exemption to $250,000 by 2028 and lowering the non-homestead assessment cap.
Ten states led by Oregon and New York sued the OCC over rules that would let national banks stop paying interest on mortgage escrow balances in 14 states and territories.
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