Market Watch

The U.S. Senate confirmed Andrew Hughes as the new deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development with a vote of 51-43.

With around 82 percent of Americans planning to travel this summer but inflation making trips costly, the personal-finance website WalletHub recently released its report on “2025’s Best & Worst Cities for Staycations.”

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner declared June as National Homeownership Month, celebrating the power of homeownership to build stronger communities and spotlighting HUD’s role in restoring the “American Dream” of homeownership.

A recent report from Fannie Mae is providing a positive outlook for the housing market during the next couple of years.

October Research Chief Knowledge Officer and Keys to Real Estate podcast host Mary Schuster discussed why engagement between industry professionals and their regulators is so important while speaking with a pair of incredibly personable leaders of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which regulates the title insurance industry.

Property data curator ATTOM released its first-quarter 2025 Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report, which showed that 1.4 million mortgages were secured by residential property (one to four units) during the first quarter of the year. That was a 14 percent decrease from the previous quarter, as the number of new loans continues to trend downward.

Cotality recently launched its “2025 Hurricane Risk Report.”

The report examines the growing financial and social costs of increasing hurricane risk, with special attention to areas of the U.S. not as prepared to weather the storms.

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The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) published Mortgagee Letter (ML) 2025-14, “Updates to Modernization of Engagement with Borrowers in Default and Loss Mitigation.”

S&P Dow Jones Indices recently released the March results for the S&P Cotality (CoreLogic) Case-Shiller Indices.

The analysis showed home prices recorded a 3.4 percent annual gain in March.

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Both the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) and the National Association of Realtors (NAR) celebrated the real estate tax provisions in the Republican-led tax and spending package that was advanced by the House of Representatives via a narrow 215-214 vote.