Just in time for Halloween, America’s real estate market gets some unscary news: The zombies are going to their graves. So-called “zombie” foreclosures—homes abandoned by owners before formal foreclosure proceedings are completed—fell to 3.25% at the start of the fourth quarter of 2025, down from 3.38% from the previous quarter, according to ATTOM’s fourth-quarter Vacant…
When people hear about luxury housing, glitzy cities like New York, Miami and Los Angeles usually come to mind. But that narrative is being flipped upside down with Detroit hustling its way to the top of the Fall 2025 Wall Street Journal/Realtor.com® Luxury Housing Market Ranking, released last Thursday. Motor City knocked St. Louis from…
A protracted legal battle over whether real estate professionals can create and share floor plans when marketing homes finally ended Monday after the Supreme Court declined to revisit an appellate court’s decision allowing the practice. The high court’s refusal to hear the case reconfirms the January ruling from the Eighth U.S. District Court of Appeals…
Housing professionals should expect modest growth in mortgage and home-buying activity and tempered optimism for 2026, according to projections released Sunday at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) annual conference in Las Vegas. The trade group is calling for loan origination volume to reach $2.2 trillion in 2026, up 10% over 2025’s anticipated $2 trillion. The…
American homeowners are struggling to keep up with their mortgage payments as delinquencies climbed 16 basis points in August, according to the ICE Monthly Mortgage Monitor Report released Oct. 6. Despite some brief summer declines, the delinquency rate climbed to 3.43% in August, up 10 basis points from a year ago, ICE reported. It’s worth…
When the Trump Administration floated the idea of merging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a single “Great American Mortgage Corporation” and taking it public, the announcement didn’t come through a press conference or news release. Instead, the president himself shared it via social media, sparking intense speculation. It’s one of many examples emerging from…
As Congress faces off in another government shutdown showdown, trade groups are warning real estate and mortgage professionals to prepare for potential disruptions to their clients’ closings. If lawmakers can’t agree on a resolution to fund the government by midnight on Wednesday, the government will shut down until a compromise is reached. President Donald Trump…
Real estate tech platform Fathom Holdings Inc. announced Thursday its pricing of a 3 million share public offering at $2 per share, expecting to raise $5.4 million in net proceeds. The company granted underwriting Roth Capital Partners a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 450,000 shares at the same price and terms, with…
A new federal lawsuit alleges that Zillow has been deceiving homebuyers and inflating purchase prices through an alleged scheme involving hidden fees paid by real estate agents, according to court documents filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle. The class-action suit, brought by law firm Hagens Berman…
The American Real Estate Association (ARA) scored a major membership win with the addition of New York powerhouse brokerage Douglas Elliman—and its 6,600 agents—to the new trade group’s ranks. The move boosts membership to ARA, which now claims 26,600 total members, with the addition of Douglas Elliman agents, and also offers a significant tacit endorsement…
For most experienced residential real estate agents, it’s no longer same-old, same-old when it comes to getting clients into homes. Read more.
