Mortgage demand for newly built homes weakened again in August, extending a five-month slide even as builders continued to convert enough buyers to keep estimated new-home sales above July’s pace. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s Builder Application Survey showed...
Some of the housing industry’s biggest companies, trade groups and nonprofits are joining forces around a message that has often splintered across local zoning fights and national affordability debates: the United States needs to make it easier to build homes....
HomeSmart is adding another national mortgage connection for its agents, signing a marketing services agreement with loanDepot that links the brokerage’s network of more than 25,000 real estate agents with the lender’s loan officers and mortgage products. The...
Artificial intelligence is already changing the way real estate professionals work. It can write listing descriptions, analyze property data, answer consumer questions, and perform administrative tasks that once required hours of human effort. We’ve covered many of...
The housing recovery keeps getting postponed. A fresh Reuters survey of property analysts shows forecasters raising their mortgage-rate expectations again, with borrowing costs now expected to decline only modestly from current levels. The shift comes as the 10-year...