Sourced US updates for real-estate investors, landlords, and STR/LTR owners
Sourced updates for rental-property owners and real-estate investors
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...
San Francisco-based real estate valuation and property intelligence provider HouseCanary has secured initial approvals in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey granted...
The Internal Revenue Service finalized Treasury Decision 10055, officially raising the user fee required to obtain an estate tax closing letter from $56 to $76. The final rule adopts without modification the proposed regulations...
The Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2026-60, increasing the special per diem rates used to substantiate business travel expenses for the upcoming fiscal cycle starting October 1. The updated rates apply to payments made...
Foreclosure activity is accelerating across the US mortgage landscape. According to ICE data, foreclosure starts rose 23% year over year in July, while active foreclosure inventory climbed 43% and completed sales grew by 14%. As...
Recent shifts in bond markets have pulled the 10-year Treasury yield back below the 5% threshold, creating conditions for mortgage rates to retreat toward the low-7% range with a potential path back below 7%. According to...
Oct 31, 2026 • HousingWire
