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<p>A specialist mortgage lender has completed financing for a holiday let property in Burford, Oxfordshire, demonstrating the niche lending criteria required for properties with occupancy restrictions and non-standard characteristics. Foundation Home Loans provided a mortgage of £153,700 for the pur...

Efforts to revamp New York State environmental laws to lower barriers to building housing more quickly threw the state&#8217;s annual budget process into limbo. Negotiations blew past an April 1 budget deliberation deadline, with a proposed overhaul of the State Environmental Quality Review Act emer...

The op-ed says rates stayed near 5% to 6% as buyers expected seller-paid real estate commissions, limiting negotiation after the settlement.

Worker confidence fell 6 percentage points from 2025 to 61%, while retiree confidence fell 5 percentage points to 73%.

Reverse Focus co-founder and longtime HECMWorld editor Shannon Hicks announced Thursday that he will leave the reverse mortgage technology and media firm on May 1 to become chief content officer at HighTechLending.

A California home builder sought to build three additional houses on lots it had owned for more than two decades in a coastal county. That should have been easy. It had already built four nearby homes. But it wasn&#8217;t. Years of court hearings followed when a state agency overrode San Luis Obispo...

Cotality hires Jason Nicosia as senior principal of national real estate solutions to advise enterprise real estate clients on tech strategy.

Tactical discounts, escalating incentives, absorption-at-any-cost strategies, … you all well know the routine of buying sales and making next to no money in Spring 2026. But that&#8217;s not for everybody. Exceptions are out there, public and private. Taylor Morrison has chosen a playbook and is wel...

<p>The number of homes undergoing asking price reductions has increased by 10.8% year on year, whilst fall-throughs have risen by 4.5% and withdrawals are up 7.6%, according to analysis of TwentyCI data.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.propertywire.com/news/uk/price-reductions-surge-as-sellers-...

<p>A tenant was photographed and filmed whilst asleep in bed as part of marketing materials for a six-bedroom HMO property listed for sale in Penrith, Cumbria. The property is being sold at auction with a guide price of £135,000.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.propertywire.com/news/uk/tenant-p...

The resounding theme of the press conference was about making credit scoring “cheaper” for borrowers at the time of loan origination.

<p>HMRC referrals to the Valuation Office Agency for property valuation checks have risen 23.5% to 14,631 in the year to September 2025. The increase reflects intensified scrutiny of inheritance tax returns as the tax authority deploys AI and data matching tools to identify valuation discrepancies.<...

If you're already trying to save your summer pipeline, Rachael Hite writes, it's time to get started. Let's talk about the market shift.

Your preferred lender should be a strategic extension of your business, coach Darryl Davis writes: someone actively invested in your growth and your clients' success.

There's one question that real estate professionals are asked more than any other, and the way you answer it changes everything, Jimmy Burgess writes.

Buffini &#038; Company has named Darin Dawson its new CEO while founder Brian Buffini steps into a chairman role, a leadership shift the Carlsbad, California-based coaching company says is designed to drive its next era of growth.

Stop worrying about the way you feel about your performance, Julie Escobar writes, and start looking at the ways you've proven your expertise in the past.

Although you can't control rates, inventory or affordability, Jimmy Burgess writes, you can help your sellers navigate those realities.

<p>Average asking prices for newly-listed homes in the UK dropped by 1% in July to £372,359, representing a sharper decline than the 0.2% average recorded over the past decade. Rightmove attributed the fall to mortgage rate increases, political uncertainty, the World Cup and persistent heatwaves aff...

<p>Banks are increasingly rejecting mortgage applications for flats where annual service charges exceed 1% of the property's value. The threshold represents a tightening of lending criteria, down from a previous benchmark of 2%.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.propertywire.com/news/mortgage-len...