Fintech mortgage lender Better.com has abruptly shut down its real estate business. According to a TechCrunch report, the company laid off its entire real estate division on June 7 and will shift operations from an in-house agent model to a partnership agent model....
U.S. home values grew by 1.4% from April to May, the strongest monthly appreciation since last June, according to new data from Zillow Group (NASDAQ:Z, ZG). The home value as of May was $346,856, up 0.9% year-over-year. Zillow Senior Economist Jeff Tucker noted the...
The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) is calling on Congress and the Biden administration to restore fair housing spending levels that were jettisoned in the recently completed federal debt ceiling agreement. “The National Fair Housing Alliance is extremely...
Blackstone (NYSE:BX) announced that funds managed by the company’s Blackstone Tactical Opportunities division acquired a majority stake in New Tradition Media, an out-of-home media operator with assets across the nation’s largest markets. Founded in 2010, New...
Australia’s federal government announced 100,000 households have been able purchase their own residential properties since the introduction of the Home Guarantee Scheme (HGS) three years ago. According to the Australian Property Journal, the HGS program is designed to...
Canada burns while America chokes, a lone voice calling for GSE reform and a blip of good news on affordable homeownership. Looking into the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for this week. Miss: Trudeau Fiddles While Canada Burns. Most...
