Mortgage companies could soon find it easier to sell the many single-family loans with interest-rate buydowns into the Ginnie Mae market as it plans to soon exempt custom pools from a recently added restriction. Ginnie, which guarantees securitizations of mortgages that other public entities back at the loan level, said it is updating temporary rules […]

Private listings and Clear Cooperation (CCP) have been Compass’s headline calling cards over the past several months, but at HousingWire’s The Gathering on Sunday, mergers and acquisitions were the primary focus.  In a conversation with Diego Sanchez, the president of HousingWire, Lacey Conway, the CEO of Latter & Blum and Compass executive vice president of

One of the most encouraging data points for 2025 so far is that new listings have finally emerged from a two-year slump, exceeding 80,000 per week during the seasonal peak period. The question is: Have we already seen the highest new listings print for the year? We are currently in the seasonal period where we