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Mortgage Rates End Week Slightly Lower

May 8, 2026 · 05:52 PM Matthew Graham Mortgage News Daily

It ended up being a decent round trip for rates this week. Monday kicked things off with a jump to the highest level in more than a month, and the third…

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Housing Industry News

Blend reports profitable Q1, issues cautious outlook amid macro headwinds

May 8, 2026 · 04:43 PM Flávia Furlan Nunes HousingWire

Blend Labs Inc. delivered a profitable first quarter and expanded its customer base while issuing a conservative outlook for the months ahead due to…

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Housing Industry News

Jobs data stabilizes, giving Fed hawks more reason not to cut rates

May 8, 2026 · 04:25 PM Logan Mohtashami HousingWire

The jobs data is stabilizing, folks. The big slowdown in job creation in 2025, which led to the lowest job creation year this century outside a recession,…

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Housing Industry News

REMAX Q1 financial results show $436M debt, declining revenue

May 8, 2026 · 03:35 PM Brooklee Han HousingWire

Financial results for the first quarter of 2026 at REMAX Holdings, the parent company of franchisors REMAX and Motto Mortgage , reveal that The Real…

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Housing Industry News

Q1 2026 earnings for publicly traded mortgage, real estate and homebuilder companies

May 8, 2026 · 03:25 PM Neil Pierson HousingWire

HousingWire reports on the quarterly earnings of publicly traded mortgage , real estate and homebuilder companies, offering a glimpse into the financial…

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Housing Industry News

April jobs report shows 115K payroll gains, unemployment rate at 4.3%

May 8, 2026 · 02:38 PM Brooklee Han HousingWire

The U.S. economy added 115,000 jobs in April, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. While this makes it appear that the…

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Housing Industry News

Growth starts with risk: Amy Butler on leadership, culture and scaling success

May 8, 2026 · 02:09 PM Lesley Collins HousingWire

As part of HousingWire’s Editor’s Choice awards spotlight series, we’re spotlighting past Women of Influence honorees whose careers, leadership and insights…

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Housing Industry News

CCM raises Two Harbors offer to $12 to fend off UWM

May 8, 2026 · 01:58 PM Flávia Furlan Nunes HousingWire

CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) once again raised its bid for Two Harbors Investment Corp ., matching UWM Holdings Corp. ’s rival offer. The companies amended…

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Housing Industry News

Innovation through mortgage advocacy: Why our industry needs to stop treating policy like background noise

May 8, 2026 · 07:47 AM Paul Gigliotti HousingWire

The mortgage industry is very good at watching signals. We watch rates like hawks. We track consumer sentiment all day long. We buy tools to tell us when to…

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Housing Industry News

For solutions to the housing affordability crisis, we need to use every tool available

May 8, 2026 · 07:16 AM Stan Holland HousingWire

Across the country, roughly 65% of households are priced out of the median-priced new home. Incomes have not kept pace with elevated home prices and higher…

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