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KB Home opens new wildfire-resilient community in NorCal hills

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In the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, KB Home has unveiled a fire-resilient new-home subdivision designed and engineered to protect homeowners, buffer neighboring communities and potentially lower property insurance rates.  The homebuilder opened its model home and began selling homes in its 24-lot Stone Canyon community, 30 miles east of Sacramento in the fire-prone […]

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Digging into how an institutional investor ban would play out

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President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting large institutional investors from purchasing single-family homes has broad – even bipartisan – political appeal. Still, most housing experts doubt that it will exert a significant impact on affordability. The order could also pose risks for builders that have made a practice of selling in bulk to institutional investors

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Providence mulls 4% rent cap as national rent control debate boils

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The rent stabilization bug has hit Providence, RI. Municipal officials there are jumping on the bandwagon with other cities and states whose local officials have adopted or are weighing the policy as a housing affordability strategy.​ Providence City Council President Rachel Miller, alongside council allies, introduced an ordinance this week that would cap most annual

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What D.R. Horton’s dominance means for every U.S. homebuilder

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We’ve said it before. When D.R. Horton reports its quarterly earnings, what you’re watching isn’t just the scoreboard of America’s largest homebuilder. You’re watching a business model operating at a different altitude — and with different oxygen — than almost every other homebuilding enterprise in the country. And when it performs, the implications go far

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Pennsylvania bill targets local curbs on shared housing

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A group of Pennsylvania lawmakers wants to scrap local limits on shared living in a move that could reopen the door to boarding houses, single-room occupancy buildings, and other shared housing statewide.​ House Bill 2109 – with support from seven state legislators signing on sponsor a committee vote – would bar municipalities from using zoning

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Manufactured housing gains traction, but negative stigma persists

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As the housing market prices out more and more Americans, federal lawmakers are taking a closer look at manufactured housing as a more affordable supply-side alternative to a traditional stick-built home. Nevertheless, misconceptions about new manufactured housing communities — that they are dilapidated, ugly, or unsafe — continue to beleaguer a segment of the single-family,

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Judge approves sale of 5,100 contested rent-stabilized NYC apartments

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A federal bankruptcy judge ruled to authorize the sale of 5,100 mostly rent-stabilized units in New York City in a deal that Zohran Mamdani tried to stall on the day he swore in as the new New York City mayor.​ With the decision, international real estate firm Summit Properties USA will acquire 93 buildings from

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Megatel Homes will launch crypto rewards for renters and buyers

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MegPrime, an affiliate and subsidiary of Texas-based Megatel Homes, is set to launch its digital currency, the MP Token, designed as a rewards platform that renters and homeowners can tap into as a financial path to homeownership. As an inducement to participate in the rewards MP Token program, the program will offer up to $25,000

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Homebuilder confidence dips in January despite easing mortgage rates

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Homebuilding executives are starting the new year with a downbeat view of the housing market, as buyer hesitancy, shaky consumer confidence, shrinking profit margins and elevated incentives weigh on the industry.  The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI)’s builder confidence gauge remained negative with a reading of 37, falling two

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Invitation Homes’ $89 million ResiBuilt buy brings building in-house

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Invitation Homes’ $89 million acquisition of ResiBuilt – one of homebuilding mergers and acquisitions’ 2026 table-setters – is a “small” deal that can change the rules of engagement and shift the balance of competitive power for two adjacent ecosystems. Here’s the context: Single-family rental REITs, with an exception or two, have historically been buyers of

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