Shaina Mishkin

Shaina Mishkin

Reporter

LATEST ARTICLES

Adjustable-Rate Mortgages Are Buzzy Again. What Borrowers Should Know.

Adjustable-Rate Mortgages Are Buzzy Again. What Borrowers Should Know.

Adjustable-rate loans have lower rates right now than fixed mortgages, offering buyers cheaper financing costs.

4 minute read

PulteGroup Earnings Miss Expectations. Why the Stock Is Rising Anyway.

PulteGroup Earnings Miss Expectations. Why the Stock Is Rising Anyway.

The home builder reports weaker profit than analysts were expecting, although revenue tops Wall Street estimates.

4 minute read

Homes.com Is a Target for This Hedge Fund

Homes.com Is a Target for This Hedge Fund

The commerical real-estate giant should reconstruct its board and consider strategic alternatives for its Homes.com portial, Third Point CEO Daniel Loeb wrote in a letter.

3 minute read

Home Prices Surprise on the Upside, With 1.4% Increase

Home Prices Surprise on the Upside, With 1.4% Increase

The consensus call among economists tracked by FactSet was for a 1.1% increase.

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Compass Scored Big Win With Anywhere. The Stock Can Rise 13%, This Analyst Says.

Compass Scored Big Win With Anywhere. The Stock Can Rise 13%, This Analyst Says.

Compass has completed its acquisition of Anywhere, making it the “premier consolidator in U.S. residential real estate ,” a J.P. Morgan analyst says.

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Housing Policy Was Afterthought in Trump's Davos Speech. No News Is Good News for Builders.

Housing Policy Was Afterthought in Trump's Davos Speech. No News Is Good News for Builders.

Housing companies had feared a ban on stock buybacks or measures to encourage them to build more homes than they would otherwise.

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Lower Mortgage Rates Were Fun While They Lasted. It’s Over for Now.

Lower Mortgage Rates Were Fun While They Lasted. It’s Over for Now.

Tuesday’s bond-market upheaval sent the cost of a 30-year mortgage 0.14 percentage point higher, according to one daily survey.

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D.R. Horton Earnings Beat Expectations as Homebuyers Stay Cautious

D.R. Horton Earnings Beat Expectations as Homebuyers Stay Cautious

D.R. Horton earnings top expectations. But ‘affordability constraints and cautious consumer sentiment continue to impact new home demand,’ says Executive Chairman David Auld.

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Trump’s Mortgage Bond Plan Is Bad News for Fannie and Freddie Stocks

Trump’s Mortgage Bond Plan Is Bad News for Fannie and Freddie Stocks

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shares have slumped as investors fear the administration may keep the companies under government control rather than pursue an IPO.

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White House to Ease Access to Retirement Cash for Home Down Payments, Hassett Says

White House to Ease Access to Retirement Cash for Home Down Payments, Hassett Says

President Donald Trump is expected to discuss his plan for improving housing affordability at the World Economic Forum in Davos next week. 

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Mortgage Rates Fall to Lowest Level Since 2022

Mortgage Rates Fall to Lowest Level Since 2022

Real-estate agents in metropolitan areas across the U.S. say buyer demand perked up this month.

3 minute read

Home Sales Hovered at Three-Decade Low in 2025. What’s Coming This Year.

Home Sales Hovered at Three-Decade Low in 2025. What’s Coming This Year.

Home sales in 2025 mark the third straight year of sales of three-decade lows after rapidly rising mortgage rates caused transactions to plunge.

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Trump’s Housing Plan Is Wild Card for Builders. It Isn’t Just About Buybacks.

Trump’s Housing Plan Is Wild Card for Builders. It Isn’t Just About Buybacks.

Proposed U.S. housing policies risk pressuring builders to increase housing supply, potentially hurting profit margins.

4 minute read

Trump Wants Affordable Homes. Pulte Is Pulling Out All the Stops.

Trump Wants Affordable Homes. Pulte Is Pulling Out All the Stops.

Bill Pulte, who heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, told Barron’s the Trump administration is looking at 50 different ideas.

4 minute read

Trump Wants to Rev Up the Housing Market. It Could Backfire.

Trump Wants to Rev Up the Housing Market. It Could Backfire.

Housing supply needs to ramp up as demand increases. Without both, home prices would likely rise.

3 minute read

Compass, Anywhere Merger Creates Real Estate Giant. How Home Listings Are About to Change.

Compass, Anywhere Merger Creates Real Estate Giant. How Home Listings Are About to Change.

The closing brings roughly 340,000 real estate professionals under one corporate roof.

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Real Estate Stocks Jump. Mortgage Rates Hit 5.99%.

Real Estate Stocks Jump. Mortgage Rates Hit 5.99%.

Stocks rally after President Donald Trump outlines a plan to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds.

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