Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

The American Land Title Association (ALTA) Homeowners Policy available in some states and for certain residential properties may offer some coverage for post-closing issues like forgery or impersonation. Dovidio noted that standard title insurance policies typically only cover issues that arise before a sale is finalized.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

While shoppers flock to malls and online retailers for Black Friday deals, M/I Homes is shifting the focus to residential real estate with holiday incentives that rival traditional doorbusters. For instance, at Lone Star Landing in Montgomery, Texas, M/I Homes is offering discounts ranging from $7,500 to $20,000 on specific properties.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2020

McLaughlin is responsible for advising Kukun’s data science team in developing predictive housing market analytics and products, bringing his vast experience in housing market economics, applied econometrics, real estate development and investment, land use planning, spatial analysis, and economic geography to the company.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 9, 2025

Kevin Peranio , chief lending officer for Paramount Residential Mortgage Group (PRMG), lives in the Orange County area and said hes witnessed the effects of being displaced by the wildfires. Peranio is also an investor in Pacaso , a second-home co-ownership company, and said that the company is mobilizing its network to help those in need.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Production data represents residential transactions only. RealTrends excludes transactions such as commercial, rentals, lease, land, empty lots, and outside referred business from published totals. RealTrends is a VERIFIED program and obtains documentation on all stated production totals before publishing.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

San Francisco-based private lender Kiavi announced on Thursday that it has secured $300 million in capital after another securitization of its residential transition loans (RTLs). As the 21st transaction made under the company’s LHOME Mortgage Trust, Kiavi’s total volume of notes offered sits at $5.8 billion since 2019.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

The recent Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles have eradicated thousands of residential properties, leaving both physical and financial damage to Southern Californias housing market.

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Housing Wire

MAY 5, 2025

The Neal & Neal Team handles a wide range of residential real estate, from rural land to high-end homes. Their commitment to culture, scalability, and agent success aligns perfectly with what were building at eXp.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 16, 2025

million in funding for two office-to-residential conversion projects that are expected to create nearly 200 housing units in downtown Boston. The state also finalized the sale of 450 acres of surplus land to support development of up to 3,500 new homes. Affordable housing progress Earlier this month, Healey’s office announced $7.4

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Housing Wire

JUNE 9, 2025

The firm works with residential , commercial and land transactions including ranch properties and vacation homes. After moving to Bear Valley Springs in 2001, Rabe quickly became a top producer and later rose to the position of associate broker before launching her own firm.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 2, 2025

The company, redT Homes , states that it’s the Denver areas only residential real estate development company […] offering a full suite of services, ranging from land acquisition and entitlement to design, architecture, and construction along with real estate-focused marketing and sales.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Online real estate marketing platform Hubzu has launched a new mobile app, available for residential real estate buyers. Hubzu is an end-to-end asset management platform for residential foreclosure, short sale, REO, deed in lieu, CWCOT and retail property auctions. Brookfield Residential expands smart-home platform.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 27, 2025

The law allows construction of townhouses, duplexes and small apartment buildings in areas that had previously been zoned exclusively for single-family homes — about 75% of the county’s residential land.

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Housing Wire

MAY 15, 2025

Seller financing spans residential, commercial and land transactions, with residential making up 63% of all deals over the past three years, Note Investor reported. More than two-thirds of last year’s transactions occurred in only 10 states, with Texas accounting for 25.1% on its own.

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Housing Wire

JULY 1, 2025

The first of the two bills will allow high-density developments to proceed if they are not on environmentally hazardous land, and the second will streamline legal and municipal processes, including rezoning.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 24, 2025

These states are primarily located in the South and Midwest, where land availability and more flexible zoning policies allow for higher construction output. In total, 18 states met Realtor.com’s affordability threshold, defined as housing costs that do not exceed 30% of a median earners income.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 13, 2025

But increased activity in residential construction , particularly in the South, is helping to alleviate affordability challenges in certain regions, according to ananalysis from First American Financial Corp. As the 2025 spring homebuying season begins, the national housing market continues to struggle with supply shortages.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2024

While luxury condo and hospitality projects dominate downtown Miami, the demand for residential units in neighboring districts has surged. Smaller developers can find niches in infill projects, where the city’s land-use plans aim to build density and revitalize less developed areas.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 15, 2025

9, 2025, require title insurance companies to identify the true, natural owners behind shell companies involved in non-financed residential property purchases. The renewed orders, which are effective Tuesday and run through Oct. These orders continue to yield vital insights into how bad actors exploit the U.S.

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The Close

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Buying vacant land can be a wise investment with great returns if you plan carefully and understand what’s involved. While land can be a relatively cheap and low-effort investment compared to a house, making money from it might be trickier. Check access: Make sure you have legal access to the land. It helps to be in the know.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

million, which will go toward organizations aiming to boost housing inventory and availability through methods including off-site construction and office-to-residential conversions. “As We need to think creatively, from innovative construction methods to office-to-residential conversions.

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Inman

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Land expert and new Inman Contributor Poujan Sadri offers insights to help you understand the world of land use and development for residential, commercial or industrial projects.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The title insurance industry saw a surge in premium volume in the second quarter of 2020, according to the American Land Title Association’s latest Market Share Analysis. Despite the pandemic, low interest rates in the second quarter of 2020 has been positive and productive for the land title insurance industry,” ALTA CEO Diane Tomb said.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 23, 2024

Private equity giant Blackstone is set to acquire Tricon Residential in a deal valued at around $3.5 By the close of Q3 2023, American Homes 4 Rent , with 58,392 single-family homes, and Invitation Homes , with 76,138 single-family homes, were the only comparably sized contenders to Tricon Residential. per common share.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2025

The firm specializes in a wide range of property types including residential , commercial , vacation homes, investment properties and land sales. We can move forward and expand, while still being the same brokerage that our community has come to know.”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 25, 2021

New York-based Kensington Vanguard National Land Services recently acquired Hometown Title and Escrow , a title company based in Virginia. Hometown Title and Escrow is led by industry veteran Sharon Keegan and serves both residential and commercial transactions in the Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Though most commonly thought of for residential deals, real estate agents can also help people buy, sell or rent commercial properties, land and more. In the average residential transaction, commissions are usually split between the buyer’s agent and the seller’s agent, with the seller typically paying both commissions.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 4, 2021

Nary an eyelash was batted last month when two of the housing market’s biggest homebuilders – Pennsylvania-based Toll Brothers and Florida-headquartered Lennar –acquired 173 acres of land in Montebello, California from Sentinel Peak Resources , a company that owns oil development land up and down the Golden State.

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Housing Wire

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

a developer of luxury single-family homes and condominiums, which also has residential leasing operations in Dallas, is looking to raise up to $30 million via the U.S. In the long term, we plan to acquire land or residential properties in Dallas as well as other cities and states in the U.S. Tokyo-based Lead Real Estate Co.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

When broken out, the residential construction sector added 31,700 jobs month over month, while the number of residential specialty trade contractors rose 7,400 from a month prior. Overall, for the past year, the construction sector has added an average of 19,000 jobs per month.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 6, 2025

” Gosdin is a member and past chair of the American Land Title Association (ALTA) forms committee and participates in the ALTA/NSPS Land Survey Work Group, the ALTA Native American Lands Work Group and the ALTA State Legislative and Regulatory Action Committee.

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Housing Wire

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Miami and San Diego also posted tight inventories of land, a display of geographic and topographic limitations on land and lot development. Upcoming lots Zonda also analyzes “upcoming lots,” which encompass future lots through their various stages of development, ranging from raw land to developed land.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 29, 2025

Homes.com continues to ascend and has become the second-largest residential real estate portal in the U.S., The platforms dedicated residential sales force has grown to 370 and is expected to hit 500 by the end of June. Adjusted full-year EBITDA is expected to land between $355 million and $385 million.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2024

All of these signs point toward a successful ‘soft landing,’ but also stoke worries that inflation may not move in a straight line to the Fed’s 2% target,” Mike Fratantoni, the MBA ’s senior vice president and chief economist, said in a statement. Additionally, jobs data for the prior two months were revised upwards by 72,000 jobs.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 21, 2022

Loan for vacant land. When a loan is offered to buy land that will not be used to build a covered residential framework, RESPA doesn’t have to look into the loan. While RESPA does not apply to a loan to an individual entity, it applies in the case of one to four residential unit rental properties.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The real estate market in China, both commercial and residential, have been unwinding over the last few years. some luxury residential markets that saw an influx of Chinese buyers could be particularly vulnerable. Despite the risks, there are multiple ways events in China could end up benefitting residential real estate in the US.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2021

Citi, now led by former mortgage head Jane Fraser , was the 23rd-largest residential mortgage lender in America by origination volume in 2020, according to a data analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance. billion in residential mortgages last year. The bank funded $33.94 In its quarterly earnings statement, Citi reported $5.6

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