Foreclosure Auction Volume Rises, Boosts Affordable Housing Supply

Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors.Want unlimited access to top ideas and insights? Subscribe Now Back in the first quarter of 2026, most mortgage lenders were anticipating lower interest rates and rising volumes. Then two things happened. First, the US, Israel and several Gulf nations, decided to start…

Help to Buy is a scheme intended to make it easier for low- to middle-income households to buy property. It goes further than initiatives like the 5% Deposit Scheme, where the Federal Government essentially goes guarantor for a certain percentage of eligible buyers’ home loans – up to 18%. Under Help to Buy, the Government…

Image source: The Motley Fool. DATE Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET CALL PARTICIPANTS Chief Financial Officer-Chris Zegarelli Chief Executive Officer-Walden Rhines TAKEAWAYS Revenue — $17.8 million, growing 48% year over year and reflecting record performance in the IP product line. Gross Bookings — $16.2 million, an increase of 25% year over year….

New Yorkers and Californians have long been connected by a coastal rivalry, but they do have at least one thing in common: a housing crisis exacerbated by bureaucracy.  Both states passed bedrock environmental review statutes in the 1970s that have been the source of aggravation for developers ever since. But as housing production has stalled,…

The central debate in digital asset policy used to be whether to regulate at all. That question is now settled. MiCA’s transitional period ended July 1st, 2026; the UK finalized its cryptoasset rulebook on June 30th; the US celebrated the one-year anniversary of the GENIUS Act becoming law; and the SEC and CFTC issued joint…

CHL Mortgages is enhancing its bridging criteria by widening the levels of acceptable adverse credit history and introducing automated valuation models (AVMs). The specialist lender, which launched its regulated and non-regulated bridging proposition earlier this month, will now consider cases involving unsatisfied CCJs, unsatisfied debts, and unsatisfied secured and unsecured arrears, subject to underwriter review….