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Housing supply hits five-year high, but buyers aren’t playing ball

Nationwide housing inventory showed a glimmer of recovery toward the end of 2024. But these new listings aren’t attracting buyers, and pending home sales dropped 4.2% month over month in January. That finding comes from two Redfin reports released on Thursday. Each tell similar stories, albeit from different perspectives. According to the first report, the…

Trump’s tariffs may perpetuate cost-burdened households

A new analysis from CoreLogic on the Trump administration‘s recently announced tariffs and their potential impact on housing suggests that tariffs could push home construction costs up by 4% to 6% over the next 12 months as material costs adjust to the new landscape. In turn, CoreLogic said that homebuilders could face up to a…

Meet Jonathan McKernan, the next director of the consumer watchdog his colleagues want ‘deleted’

Jonathan McKernan’s nomination to be the next permanent director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) didn’t come out of left field, but it still surprised many housing finance insiders given all that’s happened at the consumer watchdog over the last two weeks. McKernan’s nomination came on the heels of Elon Musk‘s baby-faced DOGE lieutenants…

Zillow sued over alleged ‘masking’ of listings on StreetEasy

On Tuesday, New York-based Dakis Group and its broker, George T. Spyridakis, filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Seattle against Zillow. The suit alleges that Zillow charges a daily fee to post a listing on its StreetEasy platform, but it then masks “or otherwise removes” it from public view while still charging brokers…

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