June 2026

U.S. Bank, Rate, loanDepot and AnnieMac make leadership moves

Westcor Land Title Insurance Co. named Timothy Rhyne as Michigan underwriting counsel in the central states region, KC West as region manager for its north central states region, John Kulasa as south central states regional manager, Deborah Lake as agency representative for the Miami-Dade, Florida, area, Natalie Koonce as mountain states region manager and Emilio […]

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Berkshire Taylor Morrison deal puts vertical integration in focus

Berkshire Hathaway’s planned acquisition of Taylor Morrison has opened the door for us to explore a set of uber-themed questions: about homebuilders’ present and future valuations, leadership and scale, and to the question that public homebuilder boards may now be asking: whether to build toward greater scale or join it. A related question may be

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Ten years after: Schaefer Homes revs up its engines for growth

After spending much of its first decade laying the groundwork for growth, Maryland-based Schaefer Homes emerged as the eighth-fastest-growing homebuilder by residential sales volume in HousingWire’s inaugural HousingWire Homebuilder Rankings.  Jim Schaefer, CEO of Schaefer Homes, founded the company in 2016 after several years in finance. Schaefer, a third-generation builder, initially operated the homebuilding company

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