Housing permits near cycle lows even as housing starts beat estimates

Housing starts beating estimates while housing permits are near cycle lows is an odd situation, but I am here to make sense of it and explain where exactly we are in the housing construction cycle. First, we have to always remember that housing starts are a very volatile number with a lot of revisio

The Emotional Impact of Professional Real Estate Photography

It doesn’t matter if you are looking for a condo in Seattle or a new home in Milwaukee, if you scroll through any real estate platform long enough, you’ll notice that a pattern emerges. Some listings feel alive. Others feel like paperwork. It’s rarely about the house itself. Two properties with simi

The Unlikely Workforce That Could Help Fix America’s Property Tax System

More than 4,000 completed homes remain missing from the property tax rolls in Montgomery County, TX—and that's progress. The backlog once stood at roughly 12,000 properties. Just last year, the Montgomery Central Appraisal District added 5,052 previously missed homes to the rolls, restoring approxim

RiskSpan releases credit risk model built for non-QM loans

RiskSpan has launched a new credit risk model designed for the expanding nonqualified mortgage (non-QM) market, adding to its existing prepayment modeling tools as investors seek more specialized analytics for the asset class. The company announced Friday the general availability of Credit Model 7.1