I launched a condo conversion community recently. Units priced between $90,000 and $140,000. Sold six in the first week. Five of the six were seller-financed. Not because the buyers preferred it. Because conventional lenders couldn’t touch them. FHA couldn’t touch them. These were people with real income, real savings and no path to a mortgage. […]

[embedded content] As America’s population ages, a growing number of homeowners are entering retirement with substantial housing wealth and new questions about how to use it. For mortgage professionals, that shift is creating opportunities to have broader conversations about housing wealth, cash flow and long-term financial planning. For years, reverse mortgages were often misunderstood as

The slow start to the spring selling season is driving Fitch Ratings to revise its 2026 homebuilding outlook. Processing Content The rating agency lowered its 2026 forecasts for single-family housing starts to a 4.5% decline from prior expectations of an increase of 0.5%, while new home sales projections shifted to a 2.5% drop from a