Sourced US updates for real-estate investors, landlords, and STR/LTR owners
Sourced updates for rental-property owners and real-estate investors
Federal regulators are moving to adjust mortgage underwriting standards for loans purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The Federal Housing Finance Agency is preparing to direct the government-sponsored enterprises to accept...
The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have released proposed regulations (REG-117199-25) along with companion temporary regulations (T.D. 10057) to implement the federal education freedom tax credit. Under...
The United States Senate has unanimously passed the Taxpayer Assistance and Service (TAS) Act, a bipartisan legislative package containing 65 provisions designed to modernize Internal Revenue Service (IRS) operations and...
Real estate cybersecurity firm CertifID has acquired fellow Austin-based proptech provider Closinglock, consolidating two major platforms specializing in wire fraud prevention, identity verification, secure payments, and...
Artificial intelligence adoption across mortgage origination, servicing, and secondary markets is expanding, but broad automated implementations face significant failure rates without specialized testing and domain expertise....
An inaugural report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates that annual federal losses attributable to tax fraud span from $116 billion to $304 billion. According to the legislative watchdog, fraudulent activity...
Homeowner interest in leveraging home equity to fund residential renovation projects stagnated during the third quarter of 2026. Data from home equity investment provider Point indicates that its proprietary Homeowner Remodeling...
The Internal Revenue Service has retired its long-standing IRS2Go mobile application, replacing it with a modernized software platform titled simply IRS. First introduced in 2011, the legacy mobile tool offered basic utilities...
Minneapolis-based Luminate Bank recorded 211 Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) endorsements between January and August, marking a 47% increase compared to the same period in the prior year, according to Reverse Market...
Compass has issued a formal demand to Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) across the country, requesting that they stop sharing Compass listing, transaction, and agent production data with third-party recruiting software vendors. In...
Audience Town data covering more than 201,000 closed sales across 25 metropolitan markets over a 12-month period revealed that homebuilders discounted prices below asking in every market analyzed. The analysis highlights a...
A recent report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reveals that taxpayers dealing with tax-related identity theft face severe processing delays, waiting an average of nearly 20 months for the IRS to...
A major demographic transition is expected to alter the US residential landscape as older homeowners gradually vacate their properties over the coming decade. A new analysis from Realtor.com estimates that Baby Boomer and Silent...
Oct 5, 2026 • HousingWire
