
‘Sounds like competition to me’: Sizing up Google’s real estate play at the AI Summit
The traditional path to homeownership — from portal search to real estate agent to loan officer — is being rapidly rewired by artificial intelligence (AI), and the industry’s biggest players want to be first through the new front door. That was the central theme of a packed session Tuesday at Housin

After the Beazer agreement, can Dream Finders reach top 5?
Now that Dream Finders and Beazer have reached an agreement, Dream Finders can now look further ahead. Soon after the closing, Dream Finders will find itself nearing a position as one of the five largest builders. Also, it will have restructured Beazer’s land holdings, utilizing Dream Finders’ asset

Six keys to tuning up the $15 trillion mortgage servicing sector
I’m a mortgage servicer by trade, but also a music lover and guitar player. A guitar has twelve notes, and from this comes every song, every genre, every hit ever written. Servicing works the same way. The structure is fixed – loan, customer, property – but what you can now build on top of it with A

Waiting until fall won’t make homes more affordable, but here’s what will
In the last six years, the typical American home started requiring a much higher salary. Today, according to the Housing Studies’ 2026 State of the Nation’s Housing report, a household needs an income of more than $120,000 to afford the payment on a median-priced home. In 2020, that number was just


