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The 2025 Exhibit Awards winners: Celebrating innovation at The Gathering

At The Gathering this past April, HousingWire and MAXA Designs recognized the companies redefining what strong branding looks like in today’s housing market during the 2025 Exhibit Awards. Now in its fourth year, the Exhibit Awards program celebrates the marketing, branding and business development teams shaping the mortgage and real estate industry. Through a new […]

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Inside the 2026 housing market outlook: Key trends shaping homebuilders, capital and strategy

The 2026 housing market is entering a new phase, shaped less by structural constraints and more by external forces influencing buyer confidence. At this year’s annual Forum for Housing Executives, hosted by Builder Advisor Group and Avila Real Estate Capital, more than 80 C-level leaders gathered to assess the housing market trends for 2026 and

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Rethinking the CRM: How Sure Send is Redefining Daily Execution for Real Estate Professionals

For years, CRM platforms have been positioned as the backbone of productivity for loan originators, agents and sales teams. However, in practice, many have failed to evolve beyond static databases, becoming repositories of stale contacts rather than true systems of execution. As teams scale and pipelines grow, the gaps in maintaining meaningful relationships and operating

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The Infrastructure Cost Squeeze and What Builders Can Do

The Infrastructure Cost Squeeze and What Builders Can Do

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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Homeowners Insurance is Reshaping the Real Estate Transaction

Homeowners Insurance is Reshaping the Real Estate Transaction

Securing homeowners’ insurance is reshaping the homebuying process itself. Premiums are rising, carriers are pulling back from entire states and buyers are increasingly discovering, sometimes days before closing, that the home they plan to purchase is either too expensive to insure or cannot be insured at all. What was once a routine, last-step check is

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Home equity emerges as a generational growth strategy for originators

With refinance activity constrained and purchase volume under pressure, lenders are being forced to rethink their sustainable growth plans. The answer is becoming clear: home equity. As millions of homeowners remain locked into low mortgage rates, they are turning to second liens and mortgages to access equity without disrupting their primary loan. Tom Davis, Chief

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Here’s how agentic AI is already transforming title and escrow

Title and escrow has long operated under the weight of manual processes and fragmented systems. Now, a new class of technology, agentic AI, is beginning to fundamentally transform how work gets done across the industry, driving greater speed, precision, scale and service. The next evolution of artificial intelligence, agentic AI, does more than generate content

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The brands raising the bar in housing: The 2025 Exhibit Awards finalists announced

There is a shift happening in real estate and mortgage, and it has less to do with rates or technology than with how companies show up. Branding was once treated as a finishing touch. Today, it is becoming a core part of how brokerages and lenders compete, and that evolution is on full display in

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Real Estate Agent Development Plan to Break a Plateau

You’re experienced. You’ve closed deals, navigated tough transactions and built a book of business. But your production hasn’t meaningfully changed. One month is strong, the next is quiet. No matter how many hours you put in, it’s hard to build consistent momentum. This is where a lot of agents stall. According to the National Association

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The AI-native mortgage: Supporting intelligent, compliant adoption

Across the U.S., mortgage origination and servicing involve disconnected systems that often rely on manual tasks. It’s an inefficient, costly dynamic that elicits frustration from borrowers and industry participants alike. Now, the application of AI alongside new data and technology is driving a paradigm shift. Lenders are using AI platforms to improve borrower engagement, help

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