Real estate market trends and analysis
Lower mortgage rates finally stopped the decline in housing demand last week. After mortgage rates peaked around 7.60% and fell toward 7.30%, housing demand stopped bleeding temporarily, and we saw a ...
Oct 24, 2026 · 5 min readData released last week by New View Advisors illustrates the ongoing shift away from federally insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) and toward proprietary reverse mortgages. In the newest ...
Oct 20, 2026 · 5 min readFrom frenzied COVID-19 housing market to today’s tight attention economy and penchant for instant gratification, for years agents, team leaders, brokers and technology providers, stressed that the “sp...
Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min readThe surge in homebuilder merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions over the past 12 months raises questions about the potential for more deals, their drivers and their mechanics. Will builder M&A deal...
Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min readWhen looking at their newly formed mortgage joint venture, Revenos Mortgage, executives at both eXp Realty and Newrez, see nothing but opportunities ahead. “When you think about our ecosystem across ...
Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min readBack in 1997, one of the storied New York City real estate firms — Tishman Speyer — purchased one of the storied New York City properties: the Chrysler Building. Well, technically, what Tishman Speyer...
Oct 11, 2026 · 5 min readHalloween is coming early for the housing market. The bond market has been very scary for weeks now, but last week was so wild that we can actually talk about what is more likely now: mortgage rates a...
Oct 03, 2026 · 5 min readIt is no secret that the MLS industry is facing legal and regulatory scrutiny. On top of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Zillow against Council of MLSs (CMLS) member Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED) and...
Oct 02, 2026 · 5 min readIt was encouraging to see lawmakers make good on their promise to prioritize homeownership earlier this year with the bipartisan passage of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. But more than two mont...
Oct 02, 2026 · 5 min readSeptember produced more declines in the market for federally insured reverse mortgages, with the number of Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements dropping 6.7% and HECM Mortgage-Backed Se...
Oct 02, 2026 · 5 min readOffice Hudson Yards Leases · Office Leases Sony in Talks to Anchor Tishman Speyer’s 99 Hudson Boulevard By Lois Weiss October 2, 2026 1:53 pm reprints Allyson Bowen (top) and Erik Schmall (bott...
Oct 02, 2026 · 5 min readKey Takeaways Markets are watching to see if the Fed changes course on rates Mortgage rates are currently averaging 7.32% for a 30-year fixed Watch for changes in the Fed’s statement language — subtle...
Oct 01, 2026 · 5 min readPending home sales are sending a clearer warning about housing demand. Nationally, new pending sales fell to 59,316 for the week ending Sept. 25, down 4.8% from the prior week and 9% from a year ago. ...
Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min readA powerful El Niño brewing in the Pacific could reshape housing market conditions across the U.S. this winter — exposing vulnerabilities in homes and testing the resolve of real estate agents, insurer...
Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min read
For construction company owners, uncertainty has become a permanent part of project planning. Steel prices can shift with tariff policy and global demand, fuel costs can respond to geopolitical confli...
Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min readOver the past year, MLSs across the country have received several letters from Compass International Holdings with a variety of demands. However, during a presentation at the Council of MLS’s Open Hou...
Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min readIn Errol Samuelson’s view, the MLS industry is at a tragedy of the commons moment. “We have a cooperative where one person is acting in their own self interest and it could harm everybody else,” Samue...
Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min readHusband-and-wife duo Mark Hairston and Shara Parker of Texas Mortgage Source LLC have been originating loans for decades, but a more recent encounter sparked their interest in the reverse mortgage bus...
Sep 30, 2026 · 5 min readTwelve months after the conversation regarding MLS and Realtor association relationships really began to gain steam, many MLSs and associations have undergone changes causing this relationship to evol...
Sep 25, 2026 · 5 min readMortgage rates are likely to remain above 6% even if geopolitical tensions ease as inflation pressures, Federal Reserve policy and mortgage spreads continue to limit how far rates can fall. That’s acc...
Sep 22, 2026 · 5 min read