One of Nancy Guthrie's Arizona neighbors has revealed that she saw a suspicious man walking near the missing 84-year-old's home around two weeks before her disappearance—revealing that she immediately noticed elements about his demeanor that raised red flags. Speaking to Fox News Digital, Aldine Mei

Home loan demand increased for the second consecutive week. Mortgage applications rose 0.4% from the week prior for the week ending Feb. 20, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 0.4% on a seasonally adjust

🏆 Residential: The priciest home sale recorded in South Florida was for a condo at 6800 Fisher Island Drive in Miami Beach, which sold for $15 million. The buyers were Mark Wesley Lasher and Shari LaForest Lasher, along with two limited partnerships, and the buyer was Winterbase LLC. The unit, whic

Senate Democrats are rolling out a proposal to curtail tax breaks to deter major real estate investors from buying up homes in the market, as President Donald Trump seeks congressional support for his own policy. A group of 18 Democrats, led by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Oregon Sen. Jef

Cape Cod is one step closer to funding "missing middle" housing with a real estate transfer tax on home sales of $1 million or more, after the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates approved a home rule petition. The petition modifies an earlier version of the rule discussed this summer, lowering a

President Donald Trump delivered the annual State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night and touched on a wide variety of economic topics. But he barely mentioned ways to make housing more affordable for everyday Americans. Housing professionals expected the speech to include subjects lik

President Donald Trump reiterated his aim of making the housing market affordable without lowering home values during the State of the Union speech, his annual address to Congress. Trump's speech on Tuesday night, which lasted an hour and 47 minutes, took aim at economic issues as the president move

Those of us who are married or in long-term relationships may have forgotten this, but life is more expensive when you’re single.  Whether it’s paying the costs of housing, traveling on vacation, or going out to dinner, things cost more when you don’t have someone to divide the bill with. There are

A Savannah property that is packed to the gills with historic significance is attempting to catch itself a new buyer—more than 100 years after it was developed as a marsh front shrimp camp. Offering more than 11 acres just outside of the thriving Georgia city, the centerpiece of the property is a ch

The simmering frustration of 2024 and 2025 has boiled over into a full-scale property tax revolt in 2026, with no fewer than 13 states actively weighing proposals to eliminate property taxes in some form. The backlash is striking, but not without precedent. The inflation shock of the 1970s helped fu

A $13 million Upper East Side Manhattan townhome is at the center of a tug-of-war between a widow and her dead husband's housekeeper. The former housekeeper is accused of being a squatter and is now being sued for refusing to leave and denying his estranged wife access to the property, according to

We intended to dig into LGI Homes’ fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings last week. Then the National Association of Home Builders’ International Builders’ Show happened in Orlando, and the days became a blur of conversations, walking meetings, and on-the-fly triangulation among builders, capit

“South Florida by the numbers” is a web feature that catalogues the most notable, quirky and surprising real estate statistics.  Last month, we examined how a proposed tax initiative helped drive high-profile California billionaires from the Golden State to Miami. But the migration story is not just

Spirit Airlines has reached an agreement with lenders to emerge from bankruptcy by late spring or early summer.

The real estate listing portal space has generated its fair share of headlines over the last several months. While Zillow, Homes.com and Redfin have been stealing most of the spotlight, Realtor.com has also issued some announcements of its own. HousingWire recently caught up with Realtor.com CEO Dam

Of all the places to hunker down during a bitter winter storm, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos' lavish $27 million townhouse would arguably be positioned among the most luxurious. Yet it was a luxury that the married TV hosts did not get to enjoy—revealing that they were forced to leave their New York

Cypress, California-based LenderMac Holdco LLC has agreed to acquire Direct Mortgage Corp. in a move aimed at expanding its geographic footprint and building a multichannel mortgage platform, the companies announced Tuesday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “This acquisition represent

President Donald Trump plans to highlight a sweeping economic agenda focused on the working class in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, with housing affordability likely to be in the spotlight. "The president will proudly tout his administration's many record-breaking accomplishments, and

AI-powered mortgage underwriting platform Friday Harbor announced Tuesday the launch of a new set of tools called Income and Asset Sandbox, which are designed to help loan officers structure income and asset decisions earlier in the origination process. The tools allow lending teams to test how diff

Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) is seeing an “overwhelmingly positive” response from mortgage servicers in response to its newly updated MSP platform user interface, as servicers view the update as the first step in a broader push toward automation and AI-driven efficiencies. The update marks t