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Manhattan Housing Slump Deepens in Q1, Luxury Demand Stands Out

Manhattan's residential market proved resilient in the first quarter of 2026 despite severe winter storms, weaker sentiment and a sharp drop in new listings, with luxury properties helping soften the slowdown, according to the Compass Q1 2026 Manhattan Market Report. Total residential sales fell 3.2% from a year earlier to 2,279, while contracts signed slipped 6.7%, according to the report. The decline was...

Why HousingWire’s new Mortgage Rankings matter for originators

The HousingWire Mortgage Rankings launched this week to give the housing industry a standardized, transaction-based view of origination activity across the country. The rankings are powered by InGenius data and they’re built on recorded mortgage transactions, not submissions or self-reported numbers. That matters because most industry “top producer” lists are based on submissions, self-reported...

Housing market demand is holding, but pricing gaps are breaking deals

Housing demand is still holding up on a year over year basis, even as mortgage rates sit at 6.64%, a level that has historically marked a key dividing line for demand. That is the backdrop Logan Mohtashami laid out in this week’s Housing Market Tracker, where he wrote that “we are at a key inflection point for mortgage rates.” But this week’s regional data shows a different shift already...

First fully rebuilt Palisades home testing post-fire demand

Fourteen months after California’s Palisades wildfires destroyed nearly 5,900 homes, the first fully rebuilt residence has come to market, offering the clearest pricing test yet for post-fire demand. The newly built contemporary home — listed at just under $7.5 million — comes after the original was just one month from completion when it was destroyed. The listing arrives as rebuilding activity...

UWM tried for its first acquisition, then its stock fell and the math stopped working

When UWM Holdings Corp. lost its bid last week to acquire Two Harbors Investment Corp. (TWO), upstaged by an offer from rival CrossCountry Intermediate HoldCo, analysts were not entirely surprised. “It was such a wild turn of events,” said Eric Hagen, an analyst at BTIG. “But we were not surprised that it broke up.” The deal would have marked UWM’s first acquisition. The company, founded in...

Housing supply summit highlights the cost of complexity

I love Jerusalem Demsas’ “Housing Breaks People’s Brains” article in The Atlantic from November 2022. For me, it’s a trailhead for understanding why efforts and solutions aimed at the housing access and attainability crisis for so many Americans often short-circuit and fizzle before they can fix anything. Demsas’ unflinching reporting on “localism and shortage denialism” homes in on...

10 Ways to Make Your Home Feel More Joyful (10 photos)

A home bursting with joy is something you can feel the instant you walk in the door. But what is it that makes a home joyful? Certainly the mood we bring with us has a bearing on our experience of home, but the spaces we inhabit also have the power to influence us. If you want to feel more...

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