June 2026

Dream Finders Homes has appointed homebuilding executive Clint Szubinski as chief operating officer, the company said June 01. Szubinski joins the Jacksonville, Florida based builder as it expands across the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. Szubinski will work alongside national president Doug Moran, who previously served as COO, as the company transitions teams and responsibilities. Moran […]

The spring housing market came in with genuine momentum. Mortgage rates had moderated. Affordability was improving at the margins. Pent-up buyer demand was real. And running beneath all of it, quietly reshaping what buyers could actually afford, was the continued rise of homeowners insurance costs. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in March 2026 found

When an industry’s incumbents can’t win on merit, they stop competing and start restricting. The MLS feed cutoffs to Zillow are the latest version of this pattern. Taxi commissions tried to slow Uber in 2014. They didn’t fight on product. They couldn’t. Uber was easier, cheaper and the cars were cleaner. So they pushed regulators