Rates for 30-year conforming mortgages stayed above 6.7% this week, but housing market activity has been resilient as weekly pending sales and purchase loan demand are up slightly compared to this time last year. At HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates Center on Tuesday, 30-year conforming loan rates averaged 6.71%, while rates for 30-year jumbo loans averaged 6.73% […]
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Prior to widespread internet usage, when consumers could only find out about homes for sale through yard signs or accessing an MLS listing book by working with a broker, agents viewed listings as a marketing asset. However, this view evolved as the internet made it easier for consumers to access information about homes for sale.
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Cotality has launched Broker Listing Exchange, or Cotality BLX, with Keller Williams and HomeServices of America as the first firms to implement the system, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Cotality BLX is an enterprise listing management and distribution platform that gives brokerages more direct control over how listings are created, standardized and syndicated across
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Cotality has hired residential real estate and proptech veteran Jason Nicosia as senior principal of national real estate solutions, the company announced Thursday. In the senior leadership role, Nicosia will serve as a strategic adviser to Cotality’s enterprise real estate clients, helping align the company’s data and technology products with clients’ long-term business goals and
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Three in four homebuyers assume artificial intelligence already plays a role in the homebuying process, but most still want humans making or verifying key decisions, according to a new global survey from property data firm Cotality. Its AI in Housing 2026 Report, released Thursday, finds that 75% of buyers expect AI to be embedded somewhere
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More than 43.5 million U.S. properties are at moderate or greater risk from hail damage, representing about $17.84 trillion in reconstruction cost value, according to Cotality’s 2026 Severe Convective Storm Risk Report released Tuesday. The report finds that hailstorms are emerging as one of the most financially destructive natural hazards for the housing market, with
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In the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, overwhelmingly approved by the Senate on Thursday, is a provision titled, “Homes Are for People, Not Corporations.” This provision seeks to impose new restrictions on institutional investors in the single-family housing market. Under the provision, entities owning 350 or more single-family homes would face limits on purchasing
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A ban on abusive trigger leads that’s set to take effect in early March is already driving up overall costs to acquire leads and putting pressure on mortgage originators’ business models, industry experts told HousingWire. Sources say this short-term shift is part of a broader set of trends — including heightened competition for first-party data
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Housing professionals across the country raised their eyebrows earlier this week when President Donald Trump said he would look to stop large institutional investors from buying homes, citing increased affordability pressures on the typical American consumer. Cotality principal economist Thom Malone has long studied the impacts that real estate investors of all sizes have on
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