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The Infrastructure Cost Squeeze and What Builders Can Do

The Infrastructure Cost Squeeze and What Builders Can Do

Capital, Launch DFA, Sponsored, The Builder's Daily /

Infrastructure costs and impact fees remain the persistent financial burdens in residential development. Site grading, roads, water systems, sewer lines, drainage, utilities and development impact fees are rising faster than home prices can absorb them. For builders operating on already compressed margins, the question is how to finance these costs without passing every dollar through […]

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Appraisal firm sues rival for using AI to replicate its tech

Appraisals, Law and legal issues, Mortgage technology /

An appraisal technology firm is suing a startup founder, claiming the nascent rival used commercially available artificial intelligence tools to recreate its products.  Processing Content True Footage sued Automax AI and founder Humza Ahmed last week for fraud, among other counts, in a California federal court, looking to stop the startup from profiting off their

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2026’s Top Producers: numbers 175-101

2026 top producers, Marketing, MARKETING TO BORROWERS, Mortgage Rates, Originations /

While most of the originators responding to this year’s Top Producers survey are looking to the tried and true method of mining the existing client database in order to drive customer retention, some are planning to take their game up to the next level. Processing Content Customer retention was one of the open ended questions

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Housing affordability ‘will never’ return, dv01 warns

Housing affordability, Housing markets, Politics and policy /

Long-term conditions in the U.S. housing market have made one thing clear to dv01 researchers: housing will never be affordable again. Processing Content This is the title of a report authored by Vadim Verkhoglyad, vice president and head of market intelligence and research at dv01, which is part of Fitch. The gap is substantial. The

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Smart home technology continues to emerge as key tool for aging in place

Aging in Place, Artificial Intelligence, Baby Boomer, Gen X, Home Equity, HWmember, Mortgage, Retirement, Reverse /

A rapidly aging U.S. population is accelerating demand for smart home technology that allows older adults to remain in their homes longer. Financing options, including the tapping of home equity, are emerging to help pay for it. Roughly 11,000 Americans turn 65 each day and about one in four U.S. residents is now at least

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Minnesota zoning reform push for starter homes falters

Affordability, Affordable housing, HWmember, Policy, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily, Zoning /

A third go at trying to reboot starter-home construction in Minnesota is on life support at the state Legislature, with supporters scrambling to revive it before the session ends. High-profile zoning reform bills failed in a House committee and missed key Senate deadlines late last month, potentially dooming the effort as had happened over the

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Century’s spec and land optionality model zigs as others zag

Earnings, Homebuilders, HWmember, Leadership, New Home Sales, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

As public homebuilders work to reduce their spec inventory and strike price-pace-and-incentives balances that best fit their land positions and operational fortes, Century Communities strategists are betting they can win on underpricing peers and rebuilding margins on the back of operational excellence and production velocity. So while other top-15 ranked public builder competitors have chosen

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NEXA Lending denies loanDepot trade secrets lawsuit

HWmember, Lawsuit, Legal, loanDepot, Mortgage, NEXA Lending /

NEXA Lending CEO Mike Kortas is dismissing claims that the company misappropriated trade secrets and confidential customer data after being sued by rival lender loanDepot in federal court. The complaint alleges that NEXA knowingly assisted two former loanDepot employees in taking proprietary information before leaving the company and using it to solicit borrowers. The lawsuit

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‘Off to the races’: Real, REMAX CEOs on tech and culture after acquisition

Brokerage, HWmember, Mergers and Acquisitions, Real Estate, Real Estate Agents, REMAX, Tamir Poleg, The Real Brokerage /

Just after announcing an $880 million acquisition of REMAX Holdings, Tamir Poleg, CEO of The Real Brokerage, described the deal as historic for the real estate industry — combining two companies whose leaders say share a common vision for an evolving business. In an interview with HousingWire, Poleg and REMAX Holdings CEO Erik Carlson said

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What if the housing shortage era is ending for some metros?

homebuilder, Housing Demand, HWmember, Leadership, New Home Sales, Residential Real Estate, The Builder's Daily /

The Changing Landscape “This is not a forecast. A forecast is a prediction, the validity of which my ego and I are professionally responsible for. What I offer here is speculation – something that is likely enough to write about but not so likely that my ego hangs in the balance.” – George Friedman “When

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