Mortgage Rates See Little Change; Inflation Sidelining Would-Be Buyers

Buyers who are waiting for rates to come down before making their home purchase will likely have to wait until next year for that to happen, according to economists commenting on this week’s mortgage data.  Mortgage rates changed little from last week, with the latest Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Ma

EXCLUSIVE: Amanda Seyfried Lists Longtime L.A. Home for $3.2 Million—After Moving to a Farm in Upstate New York

“Mean Girls” star Amanda Seyfried has listed her longtime Los Angeles home for $3.2 million, 15 years after she purchased the property for nearly half the price it is now on the market for. The 40-year-old actress, who now resides primarily on a beautiful farm property in upstate New York, which she

Rooftop Solar’s Next Crisis: Why Homeowners Are Losing 20% of Their Energy Output

In a recent Reddit post, a Washington homeowner revealed a 20% drop in solar panel output during periods of wildfire smoke, even when it appeared sunny outside.  The reason behind this? The smoke’s fine particles likely scattered and weakened the sunlight before it hit the solar panels, reducing the

AI Pulse: Leading LLMs Bomb Mortgage Test; Google Rolls Back AI Satellite Images

Editor’s note: AI Pulse is RISMedia’s ongoing roundup of AI happenings, providing hype-free trends and real-world use cases to help navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini fail as originators, show “extreme” bias As the mortgage industry appears just as eager as the re