From Bust to Boom: San Francisco Home Prices Are Now $1 Million Higher Than Housing-Crash Bottom
San Francisco’s median home-sale price dropped to a low of $625,000 in the aftermath of the Great Recession; since then, it has risen over $1 million to more than $1.7 million. The tech industry and recent AI boom have helped propel home prices, enriching homeowners while making America’s most expen
Pending Home Sales Fall to 3-Month Low
New listings inched up week over week, but they’re near their lowest level since the start of 2026. Still, there are many more sellers than buyers in the market, giving buyers negotiating power. U.S. pending home sales fell 1.3% week over week to their lowest level in three months during the four w
The silence after the breach is the part you control
A ransomware group posts a lender’s name on a dark web leak site. Terabytes of loan files, Social Security numbers, bank account details, employee records. The clock the public sees starts there. The clock that matters started weeks or months earlier, the day the intrusion was detected. And in the
Non-agency is not subprime. The mortgage industry needs to start acting like it.
In the mortgage industry, no word carries more stigma than subprime. For anyone who lived through 2008, it brings up memories of falling home values, rising foreclosures and a financial system that nearly came apart at the seams. Pinning that same reputation on non-QM lending is a mistake the indust
