Real Estate News

VA loans rise as housing market shifts toward buyers HW+

During the pandemic’s competitive housing market, VA buyers often lost out to those offering larger down payments.

• Reimagining a real estate icon: Inside the RE/MAX brand refresh HW+

• Bridging the gap: How intergenerational living is combating senior isolation and the housing crisis HW+

• One overlooked pitfall of owning a home that  – with your intervention – can cultivate clients for life HW+

• How agents can support first-time sellers in an uncertain market  HW+

• Brokerages are sleeping on AI: Here’s the playbook to wake them up HW+

Housing Market News

Will cutting mortgage rates fix the housing market? HW+

Mortgage professionals are navigating one of the most challenging origination markets in recent history. Still, cutting mortgage rates would not be the end-all solution to pacify markets that many claim it to be. While lower rates might temporarily ease borrower costs or support home purchases, they would also expose the housing industry to further risk without meaningfully addressing core issues, like supply shortages or long-term affordability.

• How 7% mortgage rates will change housing for a decade HW+

• While the Austin housing market isn’t sizzling, agents say it is still warm HW+

• Weekly active inventory growth still too slow HW+

• As insurance costs rise, Florida homeowners are given a new option HW+

• Pending home sales pick up in February: NAR HW+