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Outstanding home equity line of credit balances rose $13 billion in the second quarter, the 17th straight quarterly increase, as owners lock in low mortgage rates and borrow against equity instead, the New York Fed reports.
FinCEN’s final rule permanently eliminates beneficial ownership reporting for most U.S. businesses, ending a fight that drew opposition from homeowners associations and LLC-holding property owners.
The 30-year fixed mortgage rate eased to 6.67% this week, down from 6.69%, as Freddie Mac says borrowers continue responding to even modest rate changes.
Elon Musk’s planned 100 million-square-foot Terafab chip factory in Grimes County, Texas has drawn organized opposition from residents worried about traffic, water use and rising costs.
Marc and Joan Hendel moved into their newly built Bourne, Mass., retirement home in March 2025. A month later, the state moved to seize it by eminent domain to replace the aging Sagamore Bridge.
Active buyers fell to a record low in July and sellers now outnumber them by 51.3%, Redfin found, even as a separate weekly report showed the largest jump in new listings in five months.
Multifamily mortgage originations rebounded sharply last year as 2,530 lenders participated in the market, up from 2,463 in 2024, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual survey found.
Shareholders of both REITs overwhelmingly approved the merger of equals, clearing the way for Vivmark Residential to begin trading Aug. 18 as one of the largest apartment owners in the country.
The all-stock deal pushes Global Net Lease’s industrial exposure to roughly half its rent roll, immediately adding about 4% to AFFO per share as the REIT continues shedding office and retail assets.
The life-science REIT priced $1 billion of long-dated subordinated notes at a 7.25% coupon, locking in financing costs as it works through a soft patch in lab-space demand.
The company’s ZenaWorx platform now tracks grading, drainage and cut-and-fill volumes during the earthworks phase of data center construction, landing its first paying customer for the tool.
The construction giant will build a 237,000-square-foot data center for an undisclosed existing client, the latest in a string of similarly sized contracts across Virginia and Georgia this year.
The Chamber’s new council, with James Hardie, Citi and UMH Properties also on board, aims to turn recently enacted federal housing reforms into local zoning, financing and workforce changes.
County assessors in Colorado, Ohio and Minnesota are warning homeowners about a viral AI-generated video falsely claiming Congress created a federal property tax relief program for seniors.
The appeals court found the discount brokerage’s claims both untimely and legally insufficient, handing NAR a second court win against Homie in less than two years.
The forward-sale structured offering will fund a pending senior housing portfolio acquisition, extending a pattern of large equity raises the REIT has used throughout 2026 to grow without adding leverage.
A 12-acre estate in Hillsborough, Calif., has sold for $70 million, doubling the exclusive Peninsula town’s previous price record, to a buyer who works in the artificial intelligence industry, according to reporting confirmed Aug. 7. The sale ranks as the highest-priced Northern California home transaction of 2026. The property, known as Villa de Verano, sits … Read more
More than 2.5 million properties across the 10 most wildfire-exposed Western states face moderate or greater wildfire risk, with a combined reconstruction cost value of $1.4 trillion, according to a 2026 Wildfire Risk Report released Wednesday by Cotality. The findings underscore how wildfire exposure has spread well beyond California’s borders and into fast-growing metros across … Read more
The Justice Department and Rocket Mortgage have jointly asked a federal court in Colorado to pause a closely watched appraisal-discrimination lawsuit while the two sides pursue a settlement, according to court filings entered July 31 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. In two joint motions — one requesting a settlement conference … Read more
Mortgage servicer NewRez LLC will pay $15.5 million to resolve a multistate examination that found the company improperly charged force-placed insurance to more than 4,200 borrowers nationwide who already had active homeowners insurance policies, the Arkansas Securities Department announced August 12. Force-placed insurance is coverage a mortgage servicer buys on a borrower’s behalf, at the … Read more
California’s FAIR Plan, the state-created insurer of last resort for homeowners who cannot find coverage in the private market, will raise rates by an average of 29.1% starting Oct. 15, according to reporting confirmed Aug. 11. The increase will hit the roughly 700,000 California households now covered by the plan, whose ranks have grown sharply … Read more
Bank of America has paid $155 million to buy five buildings and two parking garages it previously leased at its Southside Boulevard operations campus in Jacksonville, Florida, according to Jacksonville business press reporting Aug. 10. The sale closed Aug. 6. The purchase covers roughly 820,000 square feet across Buildings 200, 300, 400, 500 and 600 … Read more
Proptech firm Altrio launched Altrio Pro, an AI tool that automatically scores and organizes commercial real estate deals from broker emails, and rebranded its Origin platform as Altrio Enterprise.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the K-shaped economy is over, but Realtor.com transaction data shows entry-level home sales still declining faster than any other price tier while $1M-$2M sales keep growing.
Mortgage applications fell 6.6% in July and posted their first year-over-year decline in two years, according to MBA’s monthly composite data, as the average 30-year fixed rate climbed to 6.70%.
Austin’s luxury home price threshold fell 9.6% year over year in July, more than three times the national pace and the steepest decline of any metro Realtor.com tracks, as the market normalizes after its pandemic-era boom.
Texas homeowners insurance premiums rose 30% between 2019 and 2024, roughly 10 times faster than income growth, pricing nearly two-thirds of the state’s households out of their county’s median-priced home, a Rice University report finds.
Vornado, Rudin Management and an entity tied to Citadel’s Ken Griffin will jointly redevelop 350 Park Avenue into a 1.9M-square-foot trophy tower, with Citadel signing a 15-year anchor lease as part of the $6.2 billion project.
Riot Platforms disclosed a 20-year, $9.1 billion data center lease for 191 MW of capacity at its Rockdale, Texas campus, a former Alcoa smelter site, with an AI lab tenant regional media have identified as Anthropic.
U.S. home sales fell to their lowest level in nearly two years in July, with San Antonio, Dallas and Seattle posting the steepest declines even as West Palm Beach and San Francisco saw sales grow, Redfin found.
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