Mortgage & Economy

July payrolls fell 23,000 and revisions cut 103,000, while wage growth slowed to 3.2%, sharpening the Fed’s September decision.

Nicole Haba argues leadership often follows an unspoken dress code tied to access and networks. She shares how a mentor created room for her voice, and why leaders should choose to redefine the code through mentorship and promotion decisions.

Mortgage leaders are swapping ghostwriters for AI, which creates a sameness problem. This column lays out a three-part fix: taste to cut bland drafts, guts to take a defensible position and receipts that add dates, dollars and real decisions.

REMAX posted Q2 2026 revenue of $68.5 million, down 5.8%, and a $4.3 million net loss as the Real deal advances.

Dream Finders Homes and Beazer Homes announced early Friday that they have reached a definitive agreement under which Dream Finders will acquire Beazer for $33.50 per share in cash, valuing the transaction at approximately $2.2 billion in enterprise value. As for pomp, the deal has been unanimously approved by both boards and, subject to Beazer…

UWM is raising $1.65 billion in preferred equity, including $1.5 billion from Oaktree and $150 million from the Ishbia family, plus a $400 million rights offering.

Founded nearly 15 years ago, the acquired firm provides title services across Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

New York City administration officials took a stride toward spurring more office-to-residential conversions by expanding a long-term financing option used in clean energy construction. In late June, the city made embodied carbon eligible for financing under its Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy program, known as C-PACE. Embodied carbon refers to emissions locked into a building’s…