HousingWireHousingWire Malibu’s Franklin Fire torched over 4,000 acres this week in one of the country’s most expensive housing markets, putting more pressure on homeowners insurance premiums in a state that is already facing an insurance crisis. What will happen to insurance costs in California now? The Franklin Fire is now…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire While buyback volumes remain well below their 2022 peak, they are still elevated compared to pre-pandemic levels. The added cost pours salt in the wound for credit unions, banks, and independent mortgage bankers, who are already recording average pre-tax losses of $534 per loan origination. This challenging environment, marked…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire September signified a steady decline in mortgage performance since the end of third-quarter 2023. About 3% of all mortgages were in some form of delinquency in September 2024 — up 20 basis points year over year, according to a CoreLogic report released this week. This is the fourth consecutive…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Influential senior advocacy group AARP has released a new report assessing the prospects for aging in place in the U.S., finding that despite seniors’ overwhelming desires to remain in their own homes as they get older, there is a lot of policy work to do nationwide and inside individual…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Many in the real estate industry are looking at 2025 as a year to get back to the basics of the business, but Side is taking it one step further. This year, as the real estate industry looked to navigate numerous challenges, from the commission lawsuits to the continued…
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