Barry Habib shares 2025 mortgage forecast at Housing Economic Summit

Barry Habib’s highly anticipated 2025 housing market forecast premiered during HousingWire‘s Housing Economic Summit on Wednesday in Dallas. Habib, the CEO of MBS Highway, kicked off his by presentation by referencing his 2024 forecast, telling the crowd of 250-plus that he hit the mark for home pri

Trump memo calls for escalation of mass layoffs at federal agencies

President Donald Trump ordered U.S. government agencies to develop plans for eliminating jobs in an escalation of the mass layoffs that have roiled the federal workforce in the first month of the new administration. In a memo circulated on Wednesday, Trump laid out a two-phase requirement for agenci

How child care costs and commutes will impact brokerage economics in 2025

After a year that saw the lowest level of existing-home sales since 1995 in a country with a population that has grown by 75 million since then, real estate brokerages are rightly concerned about what the housing market has in store for their already compressed margins in 2025. Economists Jessica La