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A buyer’s first impression of your home forms in about three seconds — and it usually happens online, staring at the exterior photo that leads your listing. That photo decides whether they keep scrolling or book a showing. Then, at the showing, the walk from the car to your front door either confirms the promise … Read more
Bedrock Robotics said it has begun running fully autonomous, operator-less excavators on live U.S. construction sites — a first for the machines — as the AI startup pushes to ease a persistent shortage of skilled equipment operators.
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.65% for the week ending Aug. 20, 2026, down from 6.67% a week earlier and the second consecutive weekly decline, according to Freddie Mac’s Primary Mortgage Market Survey.
A typical family needed 34% of its income to cover the mortgage on a median-priced new home in the second quarter, up from 32% in the first, as higher mortgage rates and rising costs reversed three straight quarters of improving affordability, according to the NAHB/Wells Fargo Cost of Housing Index.
New listings of U.S. homes rose 5.8% from a year earlier to their highest level in more than three months in the four weeks ending Aug. 16, even as pending sales slid to their lowest level since March, according to Redfin.
New American Funding, one of the largest U.S. mortgage lenders, said it is deploying Kastle’s Voice AI to handle customer phone interactions across both its origination and servicing operations.
Mortgage applications for new home purchases fell 5.7% from a year earlier and 1% from June, and the MBA estimated new single-family home sales ran at a 647,000 annual pace in July, down 3% from June.
The share of mortgaged U.S. homes considered equity-rich fell to 41.1% in the second quarter, down from 43.3% in the first quarter and 47.4% a year earlier — the fourth straight quarterly decline, according to ATTOM.
Hovnanian Enterprises reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $705.7 million, down 12% from a year earlier, and a net loss of $4.5 million, as thinner margins and a cooler market weighed on the national homebuilder.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac completed 15,855 foreclosure prevention actions in May, down from the prior month, while the serious delinquency rate held at a low 0.58%, according to the FHFA.
Knightvest Capital has acquired three apartment communities totaling 1,027 units in Round Rock, Texas, in the Austin metro, saying it bought the value-add portfolio at a steep discount to recent trades and replacement cost.
A storied Bel Air estate known as Casa Encantada sold for $130 million in July, the most expensive U.S. home sale of the month and the second-priciest of the year so far, according to Redfin.
The National Association of Realtors has launched a quarterly Commercial Real Estate Demand Index measuring the economic forces driving demand across 306 U.S. metro areas, with St. George, Utah, ranking first nationally.
REDICO and newly formed real assets firm One Orchard have launched InfraMed Properties, a medical outpatient real estate platform starting with a 25-asset portfolio across 16 states and targeting more than $1 billion in investments.
The Eighth Circuit upheld the Sitzer/Burnett settlements, rejecting objectors and cementing the practice changes that transformed how U.S. agents are paid.
Starwood Property Trust and Realterm co-originated a $672 million loan against a 78-property, 830-acre industrial outdoor storage portfolio owned by Stonemont Financial Group and Cerberus Capital Management — the largest financing yet in the fast-growing IOS niche.
California voters will decide in November whether the state should borrow $11.25 billion to attack its affordable housing shortage, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation putting the measure on the ballot as Proposition 1. The bond, created through Senate Bill 417 and formally titled the Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act of 2026, would be … Read more
Amazon Web Services said Tuesday it is increasing its planned investment in Northwest Louisiana to $18 billion, adding a third data center campus in Shreveport and pushing the total commitment $6 billion above the $12 billion figure the company announced in February, according to Amazon’s newsroom. The new campus will rise at Resilient Technology Park … Read more
Toll Brothers shares climbed after the luxury homebuilder posted fiscal third-quarter results that topped Wall Street estimates on both the top and bottom lines, even as profit and deliveries fell from a year earlier in what the company’s new chief executive called “a challenging market.” The Horsham, Pennsylvania-based builder reported diluted earnings per share of … Read more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Aug. 5 released its first nationwide analysis of homeowners insurance market trends, and the numbers confirm what agents and buyers in wildfire- and storm-prone states have been reporting for years: coverage is getting more expensive and harder to keep, at a pace that is now reshaping the cost … Read more
RE/MAX Holdings CEO Erik Carlson plans to step down from the top job once The Real Brokerage’s acquisition of RE/MAX closes, with Real Chief Operating Officer Jenna Rozenblat set to become president of the combined Real REMAX Group, the companies indicated this week as the all-stock merger heads toward completion. The leadership plan comes days … Read more
Eagle Point Credit Management LLC has led a new holding-company loan for Nexus Data Centers’ sprawling Hubbard, Texas, campus — the AI data center project being built for anchor tenant Anthropic — pushing the development past a key milestone known as Final Investment Decision, the companies announced August 19. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the … Read more
WHITESTOWN, Ind. — JLL Income Property Trust has paid roughly $137 million for a 1.1 million-square-foot industrial distribution facility here that is fully leased to Subaru of America Inc., marking one of the largest single-property commercial real estate sales in the Indianapolis area this year. The Chicago-based, non-traded real estate investment trust acquired the property, … Read more
ATLANTA — Comcast is putting a significant chunk of its regional office footprint in metro Atlanta up for sublease, offering roughly seven floors at One Ballpark Center, the tower it anchors inside The Battery Atlanta mixed-use district next to Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, according to CoStar News. The listing covers a large … Read more
Newly released minutes of the Fed’s July meeting show a committee divided over raising rates, with officials noting home-purchase mortgage activity ‘remained depressed.’
Skanska will build four data centers in the U.S. Southeast under a $1.2 billion contract, one of its largest American data-center orders as the AI buildout accelerates.
Most sellers see perhaps a tenth of what their listing agent does. The yard sign, the open house, the offer paperwork — that is the visible slice. Having spent more than 30 years on the other side of the transaction, let me show you the rest of it, because understanding the full job is how … Read more
San Francisco home prices have hit a median of $1.7 million as AI industry wealth drives bidding wars, with one in three Bay Area sales now all-cash, per a new CNN report.
Housing starts fell 12.4% from June as single-family construction dropped to a 15-month low, even as building permits rose, new Census Bureau data shows.
NAR’s Pending Home Sales Index fell 2.3% in July to its lowest level since January, as the summer’s mortgage-rate spike pulled back contract signings in every U.S. region.
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