Homebuyers seemed to look past high mortgage rates in their efforts to purchase newly constructed homes last month, offering a bright note amid a broadly uneven housing market. Mortgage applications for new homes increased 8.5% year-over-year in June, according to the Mortgage Banker Association. Applications were down 4% from May, but the report noted that […]
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U.S. Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) and Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) have introduced the Housing for US Act — a bipartisan proposal aimed at easing the national housing shortage by investing federal funds into the construction of millions of new homes for middle-class Americans. The bill, which is currently awaiting committee review, calls for up to $250
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DALLAS, TX — July 15, 2025 — HW Media, the parent company of HousingWire, has acquired The Builder’s Daily (TBD), the trusted editorial voice for the homebuilding industry. The acquisition marks a significant step in HW Media’s strategy to deliver market intelligence, editorial excellence and professional community across the entire housing ecosystem — from new
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Housing inventory growth has been a blessing for the existing home sales market, cooling price growth and giving homebuyers a bit more advantage in 2025. However, as we all know, the inventory growth has been detrimental to the homebuilders this year. On Monday, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, posted on X about the
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Recent updates to secondary-market rules for interested party contributions and incentives mean lenders will have to pay more attention to how they use certain strategies that have become popular in the current market. The updates, which generally are in effect now and become mandatory in early September, add additional precision in some cases and more
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After a few months of relative calm, President Donald Trump issued a flurry of new tariffs on key trade partners while indicating an extension of deadlines for most countries to reach a trade deal with the U.S.. Trump paused his new global tariff regime less than a week after it was announced on April 2,
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Economic uncertainty and tariff negotiations have left home builders that lenders increasingly partner with feeling blue. Builder confidence in June sank to a low akin to the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the sector’s latest monthly index. The homebuilding industry is dealing with the high mortgage rates suppressing stronger housing demand, and unique
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Walker & Dunlop has announced the closing of a $240 million Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) fund — the largest in the firm’s history — that’s aimed at supporting the development of affordable housing across 10 states. Fund 124 will finance 18 housing developments totaling 1,701 units in California, Texas, Maryland, Utah, Missouri, Michigan, Connecticut,
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The U.S. Conference of Mayors formally endorsed a bipartisan statement to support the Let America Build campaign — a housing policy initiative backed by Realtor.com — during the organization’s annual meeting in Tampa on Sunday. The resolution — introduced by Austin Mayor Kirk Watson — acknowledges the mounting housing affordability crisis, and it calls for
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President Donald Trump announced on Friday via social media that he’s ending trade talks between the U.S. and Canada. The move could impact tariffs on one of America’s largest trade partners as a temporary pause is set to end early next month. “We have just been informed that Canada, a very difficult Country to TRADE
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