HousingWire
- Housing demand still positive, but for how long with rising rates? March 14, 2026Rates rose above 6.25% and ended the week at 6.41% as spreads worsened while the 10-year yield neared its yearly high.
- Local investors outpace builders in delivering starter homes March 13, 2026A New Western report says independent investors delivered 120,193 homes in the starter segment during 2025.
- Trump executive orders target housing supply and mortgage credit March 13, 2026The executive orders arrive a few weeks after Trump's State of the Union address to Congress in which the president offered limited details about his housing affordability proposals.
- Trump executive order targets regulatory barriers to homebuilding March 13, 2026The White House announced on Friday afternoon its effort to challenge what it calls “unnecessary regulatory barriers” to homebuilding by issuing a broad executive order to reduce environmental, permitting and programmatic restrictions that federal officials say are contributing to the nation’s housing affordability crisis. The order, signed by Donald Trump, directs multiple federal agencies to […]
- Realtor.com data challenges effectiveness of Senate ban on big home investors March 13, 2026Realtor.com finds institutional investors were 1% of purchases in 2015 to 2025, suggesting limited affordability impact.
- Federal judge blocks DOJ subpoenas targeting Federal Reserve Chair Powell March 13, 2026A federal judge on Friday blocked subpoenas that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) served the Federal Reserve in a case involving Jerome Powell’s Congressional testimony on the central bank’s headquarters renovation.
- Contrarian Smith Douglas leans into its system, goes for market share March 13, 2026Uncertainty, margin compression and the gut-check math of affordability are the givens of a new-home market impatiently waiting for relief on at least one of those three fronts. Most public homebuilders – facing this indefinite limbo – are doing the same thing: slowing down. Production starts are throttling down. Spec inventory is being sold down. […]
- Is Opendoor playing the builder rate buydown game? March 13, 2026iBuyer Opendoor’s recently launched mortgage product has sparked debate across the mortgage industry about who absorbs the cost and whether the model is sustainable.
- The private listings war is escalating. Here’s the compromise that could save our industry March 13, 2026Howard Hanna launches HannaList as brokerages expand private networks, this column proposes three steps for portals and MLSs to limit harm.
- NFM Lending adds high-producing South Carolina LO Phil Crescenzo Jr. March 13, 2026Crescenzo comes to NFM after a two-year stint as Southeast division manager for Nation One Mortgage Corp.