U.S. existing-home sales rebounded sharply in December 2025, posting their strongest seasonally adjusted pace in nearly three years as easing mortgage rates and slower price growth began to thaw a market that has been frozen by affordability pressures. Sales rose 5.1% from November to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.35 million, according to data released by the National Association of Realtors. The...
Kind Lending announced multiple leadership changes this week as company co-founder Yvonne Ketchum moves from the president role’s to a part-time role as president emeritus and executive adviser as she begins semi-retirement. As a result, chief operating officer Jennifer Folk will assume the role of president and Stephanie Gibbons has been promoted to COO. Before co-founding Kind Lending, Ketchum...
WFG National Title Insurance Company has developed a new financial planning and scenario analysis tool that is available to its real estate agent clients. The tool, called — WFG Key — is designed to help agents walk homebuyers and sellers through common financial questions related to affordability, pricing, proceeds and long-term costs. Financial data is translated into visual scenarios that can...
A growing shortage of home care workers is threatening older Americans’ ability to remain in their homes. Despite rising demand, the sector struggles with low wages, high turnover and limited benefits — leaving families and patients scrambling for support, according to recent data highlighted by KFF. “This is not about what’s going to happen a decade from now,” Steven Landers, CEO of the...
New View Advisors on Tuesday published the newest installment of its Proprietary Reverse Mortgage Production Index, which showed that private-label reverse mortgages are continuing to become a preferred product among lenders and borrowers. The company estimated that proprietary loan volume totaled $250 million in December 2025, $730 million in the fourth quarter of 2025 and nearly $2.5 billion for all...
U.S. homeowners who carry mortgages with rates of 6% or more now outnumber those with rates below 3%. This should drive a “meaningful shift in the housing market after years of historically low borrowing costs,” according to a Realtor.com report released Wednesday. The company analyzed residential mortgage data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and found that 21.2% of outstanding loans...
There are regular rich-people homes… and then there are homes that feel like they were built specifically to break the internet. That’s the vibe at Casa MiaBella, the personal Fort Lauderdale estate of celebrity luxury developer Aldo Stark, who’s now putting his own place on the market for $9.995 million. The listing is held by Senada Adzem of Douglas Elliman, and it’s arriving with the kind of...
Older homes aren’t perfect. Anyone who’s owned one knows the trade-offs: quirky layouts, uneven floors, old plumbing, and the occasional moment of realizing a previous owner made a creative electrical decision. But despite the maintenance headaches, there’s a reason older homes remain so beloved — and it isn’t just nostalgia. There are certain things older houses do extraordinarily well,...
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