The 2025 U.S. housing market is flashing warning signs reminiscent of 2008: rising household debt burdens, persistent inflation and home prices that are outpacing incomes. Unlike the pre-2008 era, stricter lending standards and robust regulations have kept mortgage delinquency rates low, significantly lowering the odds of a catastrophic collapse. Yet, the growing share of income […]

Real estate brokerages have faced their fair share of challenges over the past year — from legal threats and business practice changes, to a slow housing market and the breakneck pace of technological development. With all of these changes and challenges many wonder if we are on the precipice of a brokerage mass extinction event.

A pair of billion-dollar originators are sparring over poaching accusations which were allegedly orchestrated by a father and his sons. Idaho-based Premier Mortgage Resources is suing Canopy Mortgage for unspecified damages over a family’s alleged recruitment of their former PMR colleagues, and loans-in-progress, to Canopy. The Utah-based Canopy has asked a Washington federal court to