• Weekly home sales look stronger than normal, but there’s a catch,Logan Mohtashami

    Weekly home sales look stronger than normal, but there’s a catch

    We had a nice pop in our weekly pending home sales last week, and with mortgage rates near 2025 lows we could ask: Is housing breaking out? Not exactly.   One of the themes I really stressed this year is that weekly data can be volatile around holiday weekends. So we always look at the two weeks of

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  • Tech Pulse: MLS AI debate; CoStar disputes Zillow announcement,Jonathan Delozier

    Tech Pulse: MLS AI debate; CoStar disputes Zillow announcement

    Welcome back to Tech Pulse — HousingWire‘s weekly series rounding up the latest in technology news, including tools, integrations and trends that impact mortgage and real estate. Here’s what happened this week: It’s up to MLSs to decide if the Zillow-ChatGPT integration violates IDX policies The Nat

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  • Fannie Mae names new head of single family and acting general counsel,Sarah Wolak

    Fannie Mae names new head of single family and acting general counsel

    Fannie Mae on Friday announced the promotion of two long-time employees to lead its Single-Family business and general counsel’s office. “We are pleased to announce the promotion of Fannie Mae seasoned veterans Jake Williamson to acting head of single-family and Tom Klein to acting general counsel.

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