For many real estate brokers, the dream of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered efficiency has crashed against a hard reality; agents are reluctant to use tools that force them to change habits. Tyler Morton — broker-owner of REMAX Victory + Affiliates in Beavercreek, Ohio — learned this lesson the expensive way. After his first AI platform Victoria failed because agents refused to download...

The late, legendary Bob Toll once laid bare the fact that he was personally incapable of installing a curtain rod in a living room, let alone knowing the first thing about building a home from the ground up. What Bob did intuit was that the second-floor walls of a typical 1960s two-story home could be bumped out to be flush with the first-floor building enclosure, creating palpably more square footage...

On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released a detailed deregulation roadmap aimed at state and local governments that, it argues, could lower per-unit costs and shorten cycle times for homebuilders. HUD’s new “State and Local Best Practices for Home Construction” report offers a set of recommended policy changes that target permitting fees, building codes,...

Mortgage lenders are getting creative to combat the housing affordability crisis fueled by rising interest rates, rolling out novel products and blending existing options to keep borrowers in the market. Bayview Asset Management — which closed its acquisition of Guild Mortgage in November — rolled out a new program on Monday. Partnering with real estate startup Estately, the firm is combining a...

The build-to-rent (BTR) industry, which has been under siege from legislative uncertainty since March, just got a modicum of welcome news.  On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an amended version of the U.S. Senate’s 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act by a margin of 396 to 13 that removed the proposed seven-year selloff rule for new build-to-rent communities.  The legislation...

Digital real estate infrastructure company World Property Markets is making an ambitious bid to dominate global property discovery with WORLD PROPERTY SEARCH, an emerging AI-powered listings search engine and super-app set to launch by year-end. Currently under development, WORLD PROPERTY SEARCH is being positioned as the world's first global, multilingual, and industry-specific real estate listings AI...

Inventory Rises on Higher Listings, but Prices Hold Firm The Central Florida housing market showed signs of gradual rebalancing in April 2026, with modestly lower sales, rising inventory, and steady price growth across a five-county region, according to monthly data from the Orlando Regional Realtor Association covering Orange, Osceola, Lake, Seminole, and Volusia counties. Overall residential sales...

Not long ago, artificial intelligence was considered a headline-grabbing, yet futuristic and perhaps unreliable concept. Now, companies, including homebuilders, are increasingly leveraging AI in their day-to-day decision-making.  Oliver Alexander, Founder & CEO at Prophetic, an AI-driven platform that automates the initial land discovery and analysis process for developers and homebuilders, has...

As part of HousingWire’s Editor’s Choice awards spotlight series, we’re spotlighting past Women of Influence honorees whose careers, leadership and insights continue to influence the industry. This series offers a closer look at the experiences and decisions that have shaped their paths. In this feature, Kevelyn Guzman, Regional Vice President at Coldwell Banker Warburg, reflects on the...

“Top-five-ranked U.S. homebuilding companies don’t happen overnight. Except when they do. These two lines almost wrote themselves in early 2024 when Sekisui House skyrocketed into the top tier of U.S. homebuilding with its $4.9 billion acquisition of MDC Holdings.  Sumitomo Forestry’s announced $4.5 billion acquisition of Tri Pointe Homes closed last week, triggering a similar shake-up in...