• The insurance market at halftime: What builders need to know for the rest of 2026,Alan Umaly

    The insurance market at halftime: What builders need to know for the rest of 2026

    The spring housing market came in with genuine momentum. Mortgage rates had moderated. Affordability was improving at the margins. Pent-up buyer demand was real. And running beneath all of it, quietly reshaping what buyers could actually afford, was the continued rise of homeowners insurance costs.

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  • Make payments with a reverse mortgage?,Dan Hultquist

    Make payments with a reverse mortgage?

    Most homeowners who obtain a reverse mortgage do it for one primary reason: to eliminate the required monthly principal and interest mortgage payment. And that makes perfect sense. For retirees living on a fixed income, removing a large monthly obligation can dramatically improve cash flow, reduce s

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  • Scale is now table stakes for private builders, Eastwood proves it,John McManus

    Scale is now table stakes for private builders, Eastwood proves it

    Word that Eastwood Homes would acquire Atlanta-based Peachtree Building Group on Tuesday came as any private-to-private combination might. An energized, well-led, fast-growing Carolinas-based private homebuilder was expanding its reach and deepening its foothold in one of America’s most strategicall

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