Canadian homebuilder Glenview Homes, based in Ottawa, announced that it will enter the United States market with a new Texas division. Homebuilding operations and business veteran Blake Roberts will head up the newly formed division. Operations will begin in Houston, but Glenview Homes’ strategy calls for expansion into other Texas markets and potentially other states […]
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Independent real estate brokerage FirstTeam has joined Zillow Preview, allowing its agents and their sellers to publicly pre-market listings on Zillow and Trulia before they go active. The Newport Beach, California-based firm said the agreement turns pre-market visibility into a prospecting and growth channel for its agents, who can now reach buyers at the earliest
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Florida-based Atlantic Avenue Mortgage became the top reverse brokerage firm in the U.S. in 2025, less than four years after its founding, and it sees more room for growth in 2026. “We just had our best month ever. We’ve done over $90 million in loan volume in Q1. We expect to certainly be at the
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As automation reshapes mortgage operations, the industry’s next challenge is to help borrowers navigate the complex decisions that shape their lives—not just to close the loan faster. For the better part of a decade, the mortgage industry has been obsessed with a single metric: speed. We have poured billions into “Sales Infrastructure”—digital applications and lead
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The home inspection industry is undergoing a quiet shift that directly impacts mortgage origination timelines, closing procedures, and lender risk assessment. As the owner of an inspection company, with over 3,000 inspections completed across Texas’s fastest-growing markets, I’m seeing trends that fundamentally reshape how lenders, agents, and buyers approach the inspection phase of the transaction.
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A ton of housing data snapped back last week as it should have from the holiday-impacted week before: active inventory, new listings and weekly pending home sales all grew above trend. This usually happens when we have a major holiday the previous week that slows data, but mortgage rates have also fallen and we are
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I became a grandma recently, which has been equal parts magical … and also mildly humiliating. Because apparently, everything we did thirty years ago is now wrong. Like, way wrong. I marvel that my daughter survived to age one. Put the baby on their stomach? Wrong. Kiss that baby on the face? Not yet, Grandma.
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Tri Pointe Homes shareholders overwhelmingly voted to approved the previously announced merger with Japanese firm Sumitomo Forestry during a special meeting of stockholders held on Thursday. While the deal is not yet finalized, the acquisition is expected to close sometime during the second quarter, according to the initial merger announcement. Sumitomo Forestry confirmed the vote
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For nearly two decades, real estate technology followed a predictable playbook: Build an all-in-one platform that does everything, with the CRM, dialer, transaction management and nurture campaigns all under one roof. But a quiet reversal is underway. A growing number of agents, teams and brokerages are abandoning general-purpose tools in favor of highly specialized solutions
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Homeowners associations (HOAs) filed 284,933 liens against U.S. homeowners in 2025 — an 8.6% increase from the 262,446 filings in 2024 and the equivalent of roughly one lien recorded every 90 seconds — according to property records compiled by Benutech. An HOA lien is a legal claim placed on a property when an owner falls
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