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Better Buyer Matching can Unlock the Next Housing Listing
Everyone agrees that housing has a supply problem. But the industry measures supply mainly by counting units and listings, while nearly everyone surrounding a housing

How Title Industry Culture Drives the Customer Experience
People matter in the title and real estate settlement service business. Relationships matter. Experience matters. A strong escrow officer or title professional can move revenue

Pennymac profit drops in Q2 as rates bite, layoffs follow
PennyMac Financial Services on Wednesday reported second-quarter 2026 net income of $22 million, down 84% from a year earlier and sharply lower than its first-quarter

Proprietary loans continue to drive reverse mortgage growth
Proprietary reverse mortgages, rather than government-insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs), are driving the reverse mortgage industry’s recent growth, according to an analysis of Home

Hawks Lorie Logan and Beth Hammack run the Fed for now
Today the Federal Reserve decided not to hike rates, but the hawks have moved their chess pieces: three Fed members wanted to hike rates at

West Capital Lending hit with $75K Washington DFI penalty
Regulators in Washington state have fined West Capital Lending Inc. (WCL) $75,000 after alleging the mortgage lender committed multiple violations of the state’s Consumer Loan

CoStar Q2 revenue surge driven by AI, residential rebound
CoStar Group reported an 18% year-over-year revenue increase for the second quarter ended June 30 — reaching $925 million compared to $781 million in the

Fed holds rates at 3.5% to 3.75% for fifth straight meeting
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday left its benchmark interest rate unchanged, maintaining a target range of 3.5% to 3.75% for a fifth consecutive meeting. Heading

Cloze unveils app to capture, organize open house leads
Cloze has introduced an Open House app for its Enterprise customers that automatically captures visitor information at property showings and feeds it into the company’s

ONE Sotheby's adds $10B luxury broker Julian Johnston
ONE Sotheby’s International Realty has added luxury real estate advisor Julian Johnston, bringing more than $10 billion in career sales and more than $400 million

LPT Aperture Holdings acquires Speculo AI platform
LPT Aperture Holdings, parent company of LPT Realty and Aperture Global Real Estate, acquired Speculo, an AI-powered database engagement and intent-detection platform built for real

Clayton replaces Pulte as DNI amid concerns over dual roles
The Senate confirmed U.S. District Attorney Jay Clayton on Tuesday to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), formally ending Federal Housing

Compass says Zillow exposure cut sale-to-list ratios by 1.3%
Homes that appeared on Zillow sold for 1.3% less, on average, than comparable listings that did not show up on the portal, according to new

Private exclusives and fiduciary duty, questions from ERA remarks
Electronic Realty Associates’s (ERA) origin story is right there in the name: Getting a listing in front of more buyers than the local competition could

Repliers, Unlock MLS partner on AI-powered Austin market data
Repliers has partnered with Unlock MLS to provide direct, secure access to Central Texas MLS data through its artificial intelligence (AI)-focused API infrastructure and model