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Jun 9, 2026 · 12:00 PM Sarah Wheeler HousingWire
HousingWire has acquired Keeping Current Matters (KCM), adding the subscription content platform for real estate professionals to its HousingWire Solutions…
Read full article →Jun 9, 2026 · 10:00 AM Sarah Wolak HousingWire
Mortgage activity slowed in May as rising interest rates dampened both purchase and refinance demand, according to Optimal Blue ‘s May 2026 Market Advantage…
Read full article →Jun 9, 2026 · 07:30 AM Gerald Green HousingWire
For decades, financial systems operated on a quiet assumption: most information entering the system was fundamentally real. Documents might arrive…
Read full article →Jun 9, 2026 · 06:53 AM James Duncan HousingWire
Marketers have long used endorsements and testimonials in their ads. Even though it goes by multiple names, this is a playbook dating back centuries. You…
Read full article →Jun 8, 2026 · 11:26 PM Jonathan Delozier, HousingWire Automation HousingWire
The nation’s housing shortage is often framed as a challenge for first-time buyers and growing families. But another group is increasingly feeling the…
Read full article →Jun 8, 2026 · 08:54 PM Sarah Wolak HousingWire
Class Valuation has partnered with Makena to provide appraisers with new mobile data-collection tools ahead of the mortgage industry’s transition to the…
Read full article →Jun 8, 2026 · 08:54 PM Richard Lawson HousingWire
Policymakers have been making the case that more supply is a better check on housing costs than rent stabilization. May apartment rental data backs up that…
Read full article →Jun 8, 2026 · 08:49 PM Flávia Furlan Nunes HousingWire
Like many mortgage professionals, Vipul Hapani can see the wave of industry consolidation forming on the horizon and knows it is only a matter of time…
Read full article →Jun 8, 2026 · 08:33 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily
The average top-tier 30yr fixed mortgage rate rose 0.08% last Friday after the jobs report came in much stronger than expected. Today added another 0.02% of…
Read full article →Jun 8, 2026 · 08:22 PM John McManus HousingWire
A pair of ultra-modest, little-noticed funding opportunities from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development may signal a new strategy taking…
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