Consumer confidence falls as six-month outlook weakens

Food Network star Suzanne Vizethann can be found on most days running her restaurant empire—balancing two separate outposts of the popular Buttermilk Kitchen in Georgia and Maine. But when she isn’t busy overseeing the eateries or filming for TV, she is most often cooking up new ideas at her idyllic New England farmhouse. Vizethann, 43,…

Investors are expressing more concern about slipping credit quality in the non-agency market, particularly due to how the loan packages are being handled. Processing Content Performance of non-QM mortgages has declined on a month-to-month basis on loans tracked by dv01, a unit of Fitch Ratings. The primary market is delivering incomplete loan files to the…

The pace of rising home insurance premiums continued to moderate in the first half of 2026, as the share of homeowners who saw lower policy renewal rates rose, according to an industry analysis published Thursday. Premiums for new policies were 5.9% higher than the first half of 2025, down from 8.1% growth a year ago…

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly planning to make a shocking move back to the U.K. with their children, Archie and Lilibet, this month—more than six years after they quit their roles as working members of the British royal family in order to relocate to California. Harry, 41, and Meghan, 45, are said to…

“I realized I could make a much bigger impact on our team if I invested my time in coaching our agents and creating the apps, workshops, and training models that help them build better businesses,” Peckford said in a Facebook post. From 441 households to 6,019 in three years The hire comes at a turning…

Nottingham Building Society has announced a series of promotions across its intermediary sales team as it prepares to bring specialist residential lending products and propositions to market in the second half of 2026. The mutual said the changes are designed to strengthen support for clubs, networks and key account relationships, while helping deliver its…