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Who can buy a top-20 builder now? Berkshire resets board calculus

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Berkshire Hathaway‘s planned acquisition of No. 6-ranked homebuilder Taylor Morrison begs big follow-on questions. These mostly spring from who this particular buyer is and the moment they have chosen. One way or another, these follow-up questions may prompt homebuilding leaders to revisit a core imperative many believed they had solved eons ago. For decades, the […]

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Beazer takeover bid tests book value and returns

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Hostile takeovers don’t happen often among publicly traded companies in America, and they’re even rarer in U.S. homebuilding. So a little over a week of public quiet during Dream Finders Homes’ hostile pursuit of Beazer Homes should not be mistaken for inaction. Rather, this may be the phase when the under-the-hood work moves out of

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A tale of two M&As: DFH’s hostile bid sharpens homebuilder tiers

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While Wall Street waits to see if and when Dream Finders Homes returns with a sweeter bid after Beazer Homes’ board rejected its third unsolicited takeover proposal, another provocative question may be lurking across the sector. What if Dream Finders’ hostile move this week did more than put Beazer in play? What if it exposed

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Broker Public Portal, RPR bring valuation data to Cribio platform

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Broker Public Portal (BPP) and Realtors Property Resource (RPR) have announced a new collaboration that will integrate RPR’s Realtors Valuation Model into BPP’s Cribio consumer home search experience for participating MLSs and associations. Under the agreement, MLSs and associations partnered with BPP may authorize the display of Realtors Valuation Model values on eligible off-market properties

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Data center hyper growth is colliding with housing development

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Artificial intelligence is often framed as a labor story. Which jobs will it eliminate? How quickly will it scale? Will entire industries be rewritten overnight? That framing overlooks a more immediate and measurable constraint: cost. Not theoretical cost curves or long-term efficiencies, but the real, present-day economics of compute, capital and land. Right now, AI

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The appraisal gap in 2026

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Real estate valuations have customarily leaned heavily on historical data as one of the most important factors used to determine the appraised value of homes. This data includes comparable transactions and cap rates from prior years, along with historical real estate market data. However, there are a few areas that the past-anchored valuation system fails

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Corcoran Reverie, Housify form luxury valuation partnership

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Florida-based Corcoran Reverie has announced an exclusive partnership with property valuation and analytics platform Housify. The platform draws on more than 15 years of transactional data, market trends and proprietary engineering to produce highly localized property valuations. Housify’s system analyzes multiple data sources — including local MLS information, county GIS records and property appraiser data

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HUD tightens rules for FHA appraiser roster

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued new guidance that clarifies how appraisers are added to, maintained on and removed from the FHA Appraiser Roster. Mortgagee Letter 2025-24 — effective immediately — updates FHA policy to make appraiser eligibility easier to track and more consistent with federal and state licensing records. Changes apply

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Study finds Zillow home estimates improve buyer, seller outcomes

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A new study found that Zillow’s automated home valuation tool, the Zestimate, improves pricing efficiency in residential real estate transactions and delivers measurable benefits to buyers and sellers like. The research, published in Marketing Science — a peer-reviewed journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences — concluded that Zillow‘s tool reduces

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Suspected $100M real estate fraud scheme uncovered in Baltimore

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A suspected real estate fraud ring involving New York-based investors has triggered a wave of foreclosures across Baltimore, according to a local report. A months-long investigation by The Baltimore Banner uncovered the scheme, which allegedly involved EGBE Ventures and related companies tied to investors Eluzer Gold and Benjamin Eidlisz. The group reportedly purchased more than

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