HousingWire will host The Gathering from April 27-30 in Austin, Texas, bringing together real estate, mortgage and homebuilding executives for four days of networking and strategy sessions. Billed as “the most powerful room in housing,” The Gathering is designed for leaders across the housing ecosystem to connect, learn and work through the industry’s biggest challenges and opportunities. The...

Lower has launched Movoto Advantage, a limited-access, subscription-based program that connects high-performing solo real estate agents with motivated home buyers and sellers through real-time live transfers, the company announced Thursday. The program, which Lower began rolling out in late 2025, operates within Lower’s Movoto real estate marketplace and has enrolled about 200 agents to date. It has...

This Texas couple, who previously teamed up with designer Tara Lenney to refresh their kids’ bathrooms, were ready for the next phase of their ranch home renovation: a full kitchen overhaul to banish dark corners and awkward angles.Using Houzz Pro, Lenney reimagined...

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...

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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 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...

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...