2026

FNF Family of Companies has hired nine experienced professionals across its New England agency operations during the first quarter of 2026, adding senior underwriting and sales capacity in Massachusetts and the broader region, according to an announcement earlier this week. The additions, announced by the company, are intended to strengthen underwriting support, agency relations and commercial capabilities...

A battle has brewed over residential lot sizes in Texas after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law last year reducing them in the state’s biggest cities. Since the law didn’t apply statewide, Montgomery County, which abuts Houston, is trying again to increase its lot sizes after doing so last March. County planners say the increase this time is needed to correct a clerical error in the size approved in...

Visibility used to win. Now it’s just noise. For the past 20 years, real estate agents have been told the same thing: build your personal brand. Post consistently. Shoot video. Be everywhere. The belief was simple — if people saw you often enough, they would eventually do business with you. And for a while, that worked. But the environment that made that strategy effective has changed, and...

This Trending Now story features the most-saved bedroom photos uploaded to Houzz between Dec. 15, 2025, and March 15, 2026.A cozy, calming bedroom designed for relaxation is a goal many homeowners share, and these inspiring spaces offer plenty of ideas for achieving it....

Image Gardner says REITs can now extract insights from leases and other unstructured data sources that were previously difficult to...

Image Mike McTiernan of Hogan Lovells discusses evolving SEC engagement, disclosure burdens, and opportunities to improve capital...

Image First quarter REIT performance and upcoming trends to help benchmark and analyze exposure within the sector were the focus of the April 7 FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Indexes in Review & What’s Next...

Artificial intelligence is expected to significantly reshape the global real estate industry, a sector often valued in the hundreds of trillions of dollars when including residential, commercial, and land markets worldwide. While real estate has historically lagged other industries in adopting new technologies, advances in AI are accelerating automation, compressing timelines, and changing how value is...

Mortgage rates have soared in the past month, but market participants appeared to take a wait-and-see approach this week as they contemplate further price increases for home loans. On Monday, Mortgage News Daily reported that 30-year fixed rates averaged 6.43%, down 4 basis points in the past week. MND rates are based on best-execution pricing from lender rate sheets. HousingWire’s Mortgage Rates...

A U.S. housing market crash remains extremely unlikely in 2026 even as the war in Iran strains buyer psychology, according to Logan Mohtashami, lead economic analyst for HousingWire. The conflict with Iran has sent mortgage rates higher over the last five weeks, from a low of 5.99% to a high of 6.64%. Weekly pending home sales last week reached 70,676, down from 72,191 during the same week in 2025...