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<p>A Colchester-based estate agency has rebranded and transitioned to a self-employed agent model, operating through the eXp platform's Team structure. Gyles &#038; Rose, incorporated in 2020, has changed its name to the Naked Collective, trading as NAKED agents.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www...

<p>The Mayor of London has announced £400,000 in funding to support enforcement of the Renters Rights Act, with resources directed towards training enforcement officers and providing tenant support services across the capital. The funding package will support the training of newly recruited enforcem...

<p>By Nathan Humphreys, Operations Director, Horizon Management No Prime Minister has arrived in Downing Street with a stronger personal record on the cladding crisis than Andy Burnham. As Mayor of Greater Manchester, he stood with leaseholders outside a party conference and told the government to, ...

<p>New property listings in Great Britain rose 2.6% to 209,941 in July 2026, outpacing a 1.1% increase in sales agreed, according to Sprift's latest Sales Market Intelligence Report. The divergence pushed the national conversion rate down 0.8 percentage points to 54.6%.</p> <p>The post <a href="http...

<p>APITS Ltd has acquired Property Investor Media Ltd, merging the Property Investor Show with A Place in the Sun Live events. The combined events will launch in April 2027 at ExCel London and September 2027 at the NEC Birmingham.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.propertywire.com/news/a-place-in...

<p>An Employment Tribunal in Sheffield has dismissed an unfair dismissal claim brought by a former property manager who worked at a Selby lettings agency for over 28 years. The case involved a family dispute at Harlequin Property Services, which has since ceased trading.</p> <p>The post <a href="htt...

Late Monday afternoon, a judge dealt a blow to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani&#8217;s plan to charge a so-called pied-à-terre tax on vacant second homes owned by wealthy non-residents. Wayne Ozzi, a Staten Island judge, issued an emergency pause on implementing the tax. Ozzi sided with homeowner...

Late payments affect 70% of contractors, and average construction payment cycles run 90 days, creating operational risk for materials and payroll. The piece outlines standardized estimates, clear invoice terms and automation to improve timing and visibility.

Income needed to afford a median-priced home rose to over $120,000, up from $66,000 in 2020. With rates forecast near 6.5% and prices still rising, the column argues buyer preparation and loan options matter more than timing.

The article argues that AI impact in servicing depends on modernization fundamentals, migration automation, API-based integrations, recapture workflows and a single default lifecycle view. It also highlights real-time event automation for disasters and faster regulatory change monitoring.

A federal judge in Maryland has denied loanDepot’s bid to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit that accuses the lender of violating federal loan officer compensation rules and steering borrowers into higher-rate mortgages.

At the HousingWire AI Summit, Ryan Grant said that NEO’s AI-driven workflow has boosted underwriting and closing output.

Locked loan data across all borrower credit profiles shows that mortgage rates continue to hover near 7%. But a negative jobs report in July may keep monetary policy makers from initiating a higher path for rates, which some market observers have been predicting for months.

July existing home sales fell 1.7% to 4.06 million, median price rose 2.0% to $434,100, inventory dipped to 1.54 million.

HousingWire will distribute housing data and analysis via AI platforms using MCP, and Intelligence is set to exit beta this month.

Only about half of U.S. private-sector workers participate in an employer-sponsored retirement plan at any given time — a gap driven almost entirely by small employers, according to new research from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.

FirstTeam entered Kansas and Missouri via a Kansas City office with Rival Real Estate, growing to 62 offices and 2,200 agents.

Miller argued the solution lies not in building more technology but in aligning offerings with what agents already want.

Mortgage insurers will be required to keep a larger safety net for mortgages originated using VantageScore 4.0 than for comparable loans using Classic FICO, according to new guidance from the government-sponsored enterprises.

HW AI Summit panelists said AI needs human oversight, vendor controls and monitoring to meet fair lending requirements.