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Future unveils Alpha, an in-house AI mortgage system
Future Mortgage is currently beta testing Alpha in-house and plans to roll it out to all brokers in the first quarter of 2026.
NEXA Mortgage hires Eric Mitchell to help boost LO count
Mitchell will serve as a “key hire” recruiting partner for NEXA, newly appointed chief operating officer Jason duPont said in an interview with HousingWire.
Mosaik expands reach with three real estate partnerships
Moves include becoming a LeadingRE preferred vendor and securing a first formal partnership with a Realtor association.
Closing costs for the typical home purchase now top $4,600
Closing costs ranged widely across the country, from as low as 0.46% of a home’s sale price in South Dakota to as high as 2.99% in Delaware.
Inside the Trump administration’s plans to gut the CFPB
HousingWire has obtained details of the planned mass layoff at the CFPB, which would see some divisions shrink dramatically or cease to exist.
Washington Legislature requests study of home equity investment products
The Washington Legislature wants to know more about home equity investments and has commissioned a formal academic study.
The Real Brokerage is banking on ‘pure tech innovation’
While many brokerage leaders experiment with reimagined commission models and marginal tweaks, The Real Brokerage is playing a different game.
Texas needs more affordable housing: Repealing tax cuts for building energy-efficient homes won’t help
President Trump famously pledged to halve Americans’ energy costs in his first year in office. And yet, he and some congressional Republicans have called for repealing energy initiatives in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
From tenant to trailblazer: Oralia Herrera takes helm at NAHREP
Oralia Herrera’s journey from an 8-year-old immigrant and tenant in a Chicago apartment to newly appointed president of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) is one she wouldn’t change a thing about. Sworn in on March 26 during NAHREP’s annual Homeownership and Housing Policy conference in Washington, D.C., Herrera now leads an […]
