Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Quiet 2026 hurricane season forecast, risk remains for builders

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is underway, and despite predictions of a quieter year, experts are urging the housing industry not to ease up on storm-resilient building. NOAA’s 2026 outlook calls for 8–14 named storms, 3–6 hurricanes, and 1–3 major hurricanes. That follows 2025, the first season since 2015 in which no hurricane made U.S. […]

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Mutual of Omaha remains No. 1 as HECM endorsements fall 4.7% in May

Mutual of Omaha Mortgage remained the nation’s largest reverse mortgage lender in May, even as overall Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements continued to decline, according to a report released Monday by HECMWorld.com that utilizes data from Reverse Market Insight (RMI). Mutual of Omaha recorded 423 HECM endorsements during the month, upping its total to

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M/I Homes adopts Prophetic to scale land strategy across markets

M/I Homes Inc. has partnered with Prophetic, a land acquisition technology provider, to support key parts of its land evaluation process across multiple markets, the companies announced on Monday.  The rollout brings parcel discovery, regulatory and environmental review, competitive and market intelligence, yield estimates and pipeline management into a single AI-native system used across M/I

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