How Dueling Real Estate Data Studies Are Shaping Private Listings Fight

As the war over private listings intensifies, Zillow and Compass (among others) are using dueling data reports and starkly different methodologies to make their respective cases in the courtroom—and in the court of public opinion. On July 24, Compass reported that pre-marketed homes that started as

Mortgage Rates Remain Steady; Buyers Moving on Modest Decreases

Mortgage rates remained relatively steady from last week, but an increase in home-purchase application activity after multiple weeks of decreases shows that homebuyers are getting accustomed to the current environment and responding to even slight rate decreases.  This week, the average 30-year fixe

How Taylor Morrison tracks one division’s offsite component gains

Battling soft margins, dicey demand and chronic labor shortages, can homebuilders leverage a pivot to factory-built components as an offset to build more efficiently and scale with fewer workers?This is a question that Taylor Morrison’s Austin division began asking just before the onset of the COVID

Trump Administration Revisiting Capital Gains Tax Reform

The Trump administration is reportedly looking at updating rules and limits around the capital gains tax limitations on home sales—a longstanding issue in real estate. On Fox Business recently, host and former National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow said he had spoken to President Trump abou