Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Figure Lending is preparing to float $321.1 million in residential mortgage-backed notes, secured by first- and junior-lien revolving home equity lines of credit (HELOCs), in its first deal of the year. Processing Content FIGRE Trust 2026-EXP1 will sell the debt through seven levels of class A through G notes, slated to close around July 9, […]

America’s housing affordability crisis has reached a breaking point. Home prices remain out of reach for millions of families, apartment rents continue to climb and the dream of homeownership is slipping further away for first-time buyers, working families, seniors and young Americans. Manufactured housing should be one of the nation’s most effective answers to this

Artificial intelligence has reached homebuilding’s proving ground. Not the proving ground for a demo or a pitch deck, nor the conference-stage jumbo-screen promise that technology will transform an industry whose complexity has humbled generations of would-be transformers. It’s the real sniff test. AI’s proving ground has become the homebuilding business itself. It is land acquired