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• Home sales are stalled with 7% mortgages January 20, 2025
  Buyer activity has been dropping and the housing market is on hold until mortgage rates drop.
  Mike Simonsen
• Trump issues executive order: Emergency price relief on housing January 20, 2025
  What are President Trump’s priorities for housing in his second term? We look at his Day 1 executive orders and other actions for the answer.
  Sarah Wheeler
• Treasury outlines rising cost of homeowners insurance January 20, 2025
  Homeowners in areas with the highest risk of perils paid 82% more for homeowners insurance than those in ZIP codes with the lowest risks.
  Chris Clow
• Risks and opportunities for real estate in Trump’s second term January 20, 2025
  Voters delivered a Republican trifecta in Washington, D.C., but a razor-thin House majority and the Senate filibuster will put some limits on what is legislatively possible for President Donald Trump and the GOP Congress. The President and financial regulators will have a greater ability to deregulate, though recent Supreme Court decisions could rein in those […]
  Sairah Burki, David McCarthy
• How gen AI is making real estate cybercrime easier than ever January 20, 2025
  AI is making fraudsters’ jobs easier, but cybersecurity professionals are not backing down without a fight.
  Brooklee Han
• Lower CEO Dan Snyder explores acquisitions, technology and growth plans January 20, 2025
  Lower recently acquired Neat Labs to transform its in-house technology stack going into 2025. CEO Dan Snyder shares more details.
  Kennedy Edgerton
• Moment of truth: 2025 RealTrends Verified rankings are open for submission January 20, 2025
  The time has come to highlight game-changing real estate professionals who adhered to the gold standard of brilliance in 2024. RealTrends Verified has opened the submissions period for its 2025 rankings, alongside a series of big-time enhancements.
  Kennedy Edgerton
• Capitulation: Why buyers and sellers are ready to move January 20, 2025
  Inaction is easy. It’s quiet; unwritten; immune from critique. It sits undone; confidently static. But if buyers and sellers were compelled to transcribe their inaction, it would read like a sociopath’s diary entry: “We could have watched you grow up, but your grandpa and me weren’t willing to give up our 2.875% rate to move […]
  David P. Wickert
• All the ways the wildfires could make LA housing more expensive January 19, 2025
  Residents looking to rebuild or find new housing will face numerous headwinds that could drive up housing costs in LA.
  Jeff Andrews
• Mortgage rates fell last week. Can they go lower? January 18, 2025
  Mortgage rates fell last week after a brutal few months of rising rates. The question now is whether rates can keep going lower.
  Logan Mohtashami