Housing
Mortgage rates still 7% as Independence Day approaches. Too high for homebuyers?
Estimated 2023 Rocket Mortgage media spend was $184m. New CMO Jonathan Mildenhall just picked Mirimar as agency of record, and launching huge homeownership campaign 4Q. Ad Age has details.
Zillow was early on AI home search. Now they aim to remove discrimination from search and chatbots.
How Grim Is Homebuying To Start Summer?
You can have high prices or you can have high mortgage rates, but you can’t have both for long.
Julian Hebron of The Basis Point rejoins Investopedia Express podcast to debunk housing hysteria on affordability, supply, commissions, AI.
MBA Secondary 2024 Conference live blog on all things mortgage trading, rates, regs, and state of lenders after 2+ challenging years.
Dan Green of Homebuyer.com & Mike Simonsen of Altos Research discuss home inventory, sales, prices, and how realtor pay is changing

If buyer commissions are 3% on today's median prices for existing ($379,100) or newly built ($420,700) homes, that's $11,373 or $12,621 in extra closing fees for buyers.
NAR answers key questions in lawsuit settlement. How agents will get paid by home buyers & sellers, relevance of MLSs now, how NAR pays $418m settlement, etc.
"NAR settlement destroys current home buying and selling business model, in which sellers pay both their broker and a buyer’s broker, which critics say have driven housing prices artificially higher."
3+ years after home prices started spiking, the only thing that’s gone bust is gloomy predictions
Here's 4 reasons why HousingWire has its sh!t together in 2024 and The Gathering by HousingWire conference will be a highlight of the Spring circuit.
Mortgage rates spiked this week as inflation ticked up. But here's the case for mid-6% rates by Spring and math on why this is affordable.
Harvard's Joint Center For Housing Studies shows wide disparity between housing shortfall estimates: 1.5m for NAHB, 3.8m for Freddie Mac, 5.5m for NAR. Here's how these 3 orgs calculate estimates.
S&P Case Shiller, which has accurate albeit late home price reports, showed home prices down 0.2% from October to November 2023, the first drop since January, which came after mortgage rates peaked at 8% in October

