Tagged: analysis

Buyer-seller standoff, weak demand, and regional splits define early-year housing conditions

Affordability improves modestly but remains stretched as rising supply and steady prices reshape the purchase market for originators

Record pipeline of 90,000+ units and looming office loan maturities reshape urban housing supply while opening construction and adaptive reuse financing opportunities for lenders

Investors purchased nearly one-third of all houses sold in the fourth quarter of 2025, but sold more properties than they acquired

Rising stale inventory and longer days on market signal weaker demand, fewer originations, and increased pricing pressure for loan officers

Why it pays for LOs to be competitive out of the gate in today’s rate-sensitive market

Even among top 10 most affordable areas, home sale prices more than doubled in four, nearly doubled in another three since 2015

As mass layoffs at the agency are paused, law firm Garris Horn’s Senior Partner calls memo’s info, detail a ‘huge win’