Tacking housing supply and affordability In the report, NAR highlighted some notable advocacy numbers for 2025, including seeing membership of the Congressional Real Estate Caucus, a bipartisan group working to tackle housing... Read more »
West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Mesocore Modular Homes is introducing an expandable modular housing model aimed at improving affordability and disaster relief, an important issue in a state prone to devastating hurricanes. Positioned... Read more »
Others, however, are likely to face significant legislative hurdles. Proposals involving penalty-free 401(k) withdrawals and restrictions on institutional homebuyers would require congressional action, industry experts say. In particular, a ban on large... Read more »
Affordability pressures, elevated mortgage rates, and homeowner rate lock-in have pushed once-fringe mortgage ideas back into the spotlight. Concepts such as 50-year mortgages, portable mortgages, and assumable loans are being discussed as... Read more »
Middle-income Americans ages 50 to 64 are most at risk, according to KFF data cited in a recent report from Kiplinger. This group is too young for Medicare and could see... Read more »
Musk envisions a future of unprecedented productivity, where advances in artificial intelligence, energy and robotics produce economic “abundance” and even a so-called “universal high income” that might make long-term savings unnecessary, Business... Read more »
“This is a lot of saber rattling,” Murray told HousingWire. “It’s also going to depend on who’s doing the measuring, and I’ve done a lot of research on this in years past.... Read more »
Ideas cited by the Brookings Institution from the Progressive Policy Institute, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Cato Institute all recommend shifting the program away from its current wage-replacement structure toward... Read more »
The average U.S. home insurance premium increased 24% between 2021 and 2024, according to the Consumer Federation of America — outpacing inflation by 11% over the same period. Looking ahead, 82% of... Read more »
Celebrity broker Ryan Serhant has made a career out of keeping his finger on the pulse of the housing market—and now he’s revealing his expert predictions for what 2026 has in store... Read more »