Median Prices Climb to $6.8 Million in March as Demand Surges  San Francisco's luxury housing market is staging a powerful comeback--one increasingly defined by the rise of artificial intelligence and the wealth it is generating, according to new data from Redfin. Sales of high-end homes in San Francisco climbed 22.2% in March 2026 from a year earlier, the fifth consecutive month of double-digit gains...

In an all-important way, Green Brick Partners operates as an anomaly. The Texas-based homebuilder continues to deliver the highest gross profit margin among public homebuilding peers, and plans to use this margin cushion to its advantage over the quarters ahead. While public homebuilding peers struggle with margins that have eroded to the mid-teens, Green Brick Partners posted an industry-leading...

UWM Holdings Corp. is challenging Two Harbors Investment Corp.’s board after it rejected a $12 per share acquisition proposal in favor of an $11.30 per share deal with CrossCountry Mortgage LLC, issuing a lengthy response that questioned the board’s analysis and process. In a statement on Monday, UWM said “the TWO Board’s interpretation of the numbers don’t reflect the underlying math.” The...

“Where’s the upside here?” That’s the question Steve Murray, the co-founder of RealTrends Consulting, keeps coming back to as the industry digests The Real Brokerage’s acquisition of REMAX — and it’s the same question investors appeared to answer swiftly. On the day of the announcement, Real’s stock plunged to $2.02 per share, with trading volume surging to more than 10 times normal...

The story of American homebuilding is mostly one of bootstrapped businesses. They mostly get forged in hard circumstances, with a single, almost instantaneous reckoning that there are no shortcuts to success … or even to being around in five years, fighting to achieve it. It requires leaders willing to take risks across land, capital, construction, design, marketing, regulation, talent, and...

Photo by AJ Canaria/HousingWire’s The Gathering Even as as real estate talent pipelines overflow with qualified women, data shows little has changed in female representation at the highest executive levels over the last several decades, Wendy Forsythe told attendees at HousingWire’s The Gathering last week in Austin, Texas. In a session titled “The table wasn’t built for us: How to get more...

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KB Home Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Robert R. “Rob” Dillard will step down from his role effective May 8, 2026, the Los Angeles-based homebuilder disclosed in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29. Dillard’s departure is “not related to any disagreement with KB Home or its financial or accounting policies or practices,” the company...

The kitchen island has become one of the hardest-working features in the modern home — maximizing counter space and storage, anchoring the room’s design and giving everyone a place to gather. But the best island for your kitchen depends on how you live, how you cook and how much space...