Mortgage escrow misconceptions persist as payment amounts rise
Most homeowners are surprised by escrow payment increases, with 62% citing higher property taxes as the cause.
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Sumitomo Forestry buys Tri Pointe, resetting the arc of homebuilder scale
Within a couple of weeks of exactly this time two years ago, the lead-in to a blockbuster $4.9 billion M&A deal involving a Japan-based acquirer of a national public homebuilding enterprise practically wrote itself: “A top-five-ranked U.S. homebuilding company doesn’t happen overnight…. Except when it does.” That same lead applies to 2026’s supercharged kickoff in […]
Social Security planning could open the door for reverse mortgage conversations
Reverse mortgage professionals are advised to start with Social Security education to build trust and identify client needs.
Taylor Morrison’s 2026 rebalance: romance over discounts
Demand that is awakened — lit by a flame, chasing a well-deserved dream home — is fundamentally different from demand sparked by being a rental refugee, where the walls have closed in and every monthly payment feels like a frittered-away sum that could have done more. Serving both customers today increasingly looks like operating in […]
Here are the nation’s top reverse mortgage brokers for 2025
Atlantic Avenue Mortgage led HECM broker endorsements in 2025 even as proprietary reverse mortgages now make up 45% of new volume.
Tradeweb makes investment in digital mortgage exchange MAXEX
The collaboration is designed to broaden institutional access to the U.S. residential mortgage market.
What the Housing for the 21st Century Act means for real estate agents, lenders
If enacted, the reforms would mark one of the most aggressive federal efforts in decades to boost housing supply and market activity.
California’s Acacia Village tests offsite infill’s feasibility advantage
A pocket neighborhood is a deceptively simple idea, with a decades-deep real-life pedigree. A small cluster of homes. Close enough to share green space and create a sense of place. Small enough to fit into an infill parcel that has sat empty because the land math never quite worked out. In California in 2026, that […]
Consumer group sues Unison, alleging deceptive marketing of ‘no-debt’ home equity investment
Unison, one of the nation’s leading providers of home equity investments, is facing a lawsuit from the National Association of Consumer Advocates, which alleges the company deceptively markets its product as a “no-debt” home equity alternative.
Exclusive: Pennymac to acquire subservicing giant Cenlar for $257.5M
Pennymac’s first M&A deal adds 2 million loans and expands its mortgage servicing to more than $1 trillion in unpaid principal balance.