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In 2021 alone, 20 separate billion-dollar natural-disaster events hit the US, totaling $145 billion in damages.

Morty, a mortgage broker, wants to shake up the industry by providing an online marketplace where homebuyers can effortlessly shop for mortgages.

Developers are racing to build subdivisions of single-family rental homes. Housing expert John Burns said that’s leading to riskier investments.

Despite rising costs, respondents to a survey of more than 400 home flippers said they were seeing strong sales activity and healthy profit margins.

Most real-estate developers rely on complex webs of spreadsheets to manage their projects. The startup Northspyre wants to change that.

Small investors own roughly $4 trillion worth of single-family rental homes in the US. One startup wants to provide them with a new exit strategy.

Americans are sitting on record amounts of home equity. To unlock that equity, some are selling stakes in their homes to firms backed by Wall Street.

Americans have tons of wealth trapped in their home equity. A new company wants to pay owners cash for a share of their homes’ future appreciation.

The new data is the latest sign that mom-and-pop real-estate investors, as well as big firms, are still upping their stakes in the US housing market.

Home flipping is luring new investors with promises of financial freedom. But a housing correction could leave some of them broken and bankrupt.

One of the nation’s largest owners of rental homes will use modular construction to create new supply amid a national housing shortage.

A number of companies are offering homeowners cash in exchange for a piece of their home equity, a deal that Wall Street is pitching as a win-win.

US homeowners have never been richer — at least on paper. Investing in all that home equity has become one of the hottest plays in real estate.

Airbnb investors are flocking to South Texas, where they see a chance to capitalize on relatively cheap homes and proximity to Musk’s SpaceX.

A year after Zillow’s home-flipping business flamed out in stunning fashion, Opendoor is battling its own challenges as the housing market cools.

Experts warned in the spring that home flippers could face trouble if the housing market were to suddenly cool. That’s exactly what happened.

A handful of startups believe they can overcome slim margins and regulatory barriers to bring down-payment help to the masses.

Lenders need to make it easier for people with lousy credit to get a mortgage and buy a home — though that will result in more foreclosures.

Highly-paid remote workers drove up house prices during the pandemic. But they’re flocking to cities where it’s easier to build cheaper homes.

On Tuesday afternoon at a courthouse in Kansas City, Missouri, the collective nightmare of the real-estate industry became reality.For decades, the basic structure of how real-estate agents get paid when they help someone buy or sell their home has remained roughly the same. But over the past few years, some of the most powerful organizations in the business — the National Association of Realtors and several of the country’s largest brokerages — have been fighting two multibillion-dollar class-a…