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Gail Liniger, who co-founded RE/MAX in Denver in 1973 and served as its chief executive from 1991, has died at 81 β three days after the franchisor became a subsidiary of Real REMAX Group.
A hawkish Jackson Hole debut, sticky PCE inflation, a 10.5% drop in new home sales and the end of RE/MAX as an independent company β the week’s biggest real estate stories in one place.
Construction spending Tuesday, Freddie Mac’s rate survey Thursday and the August jobs report Friday β the last full data week before the Fed’s September meeting.
Velocity Financial will acquire Toorak Capital’s business-purpose lending platform for $63 million in cash while a third-party investor buys Toorak’s $3 billion loan portfolio, in transactions valued at about $3.2 billion.
Freddie Mac’s 30-year fixed-rate average rose one basis point to 6.66% this week, a third straight near-flat reading, as the Kansas City Fed’s Jackson Hole symposium opened and new listings hit a four-month high.
In his first Jackson Hole keynote as Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh acknowledged housing is showing strains but said financial conditions are not restrictive and the Fed’s focus belongs on 3.7% inflation.
Only 41% of apartments completed in the first quarter of 2026 were leased within three months, the seventh straight quarter below 50%, as the record delivery wave keeps pressure on lease-up.
The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge held at 3.7% year over year in July with core at 3.3%, BEA said Wednesday. Real consumer spending was flat, the saving rate rose to 3.0%, and mortgage rates stayed in the mid-6% range with the Fed still split over whether to hike.
NIC MAP’s updated Senior Housing Market Outlook says the industry needs more than $1 trillion in cumulative investment through 2050, with construction starts down about 67% since 2021 as the 80-plus population enters its steepest growth in U.S. history.
Cook’s attorney told the White House the occupancy entries at the center of the case were an unintentional error, not fraud, three weeks before an FOMC meeting that will shape mortgage rates.
EQT Real Estate’s Industrial Value Fund V sold a 46-building warehouse portfolio across 10 Southeast markets to an LBA Realty affiliate, days after national industrial vacancy fell for the first time since 2022.
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.
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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 β the scarce commodity in the AI buildout.
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.
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.
Active listings across Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria, Va., rose nearly 20% year over year while national inventory fell β 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 β 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% β 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.
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