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Monday through Friday (except state holidays) each week includes electronic format articles retrieved from newspapers or news services that report real estate related news in California and some national services. Coverage is for California newspapers that are available electronically via the Internet - and any significant related breaking news.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Top Stories
Elevated Rates Slow Home Sales as Buyer Demand Softens
MISCHA FISHER, Zillow Research
Home sales slipped 0.6% year over year in August and fell sharply from July. Mortgage rates holding above 6.5% — their highest level in a year — kept many buyers on the sidelines. Newly pending listings, a forward-looking measure of demand, fell 2.6% from a year ago, a sign that the slowdown could continue through the remainder of the year.
MBA files lawsuit to halt New Jersey's disparate-impact rules
SPENCER LEE, National Mortgage News
The Mortgage Bankers Association filed a civil lawsuit against the New Jersey attorney general over the state's disparate-impact discrimination rules, claiming they pose a constitutional risk and undermine existing safeguards aimed to protect businesses.
Crypto-Backed Home Financing Comes With New Trade-Offs
CZARINNA ANDRES, National Mortgage Professional
Crypto-backed credit is giving digital-asset holders more ways to obtain liquidity without selling their holdings. For mortgage originators, the emerging market brings a new set of questions about qualification, collateral, pricing, and how borrowers intend to use the proceeds.
National News
The poorest in the US can't find housing even as low-income units sit empty
CLAIRE RUSH, Associate Press
There are only about 4 million affordable rental units available for the country’s 11 million extremely low-income renter households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s most recent annual report.
Here’s where rental demand is heading and what it means for future home sales
DIANA OLICK, CNBC
Prices in the for-sale housing market are showing no signs of cooling off, causing more renters to stay on the buying sidelines. And as rents start to heat back up, too, more tenants are relocating to cheaper markets.
California News
California could be first in the nation to create smoke-damage standards
LEVI SUMAGAYSAY, CalMatters
Two smoke-damage bills awaiting the governor’s signature address a longstanding issue brought to the fore by the Los Angeles County fires: When is it safe for wildfire survivors to move back into their homes?
This S.F. suburb lost control of its housing. What happens now?
CONNOR LETOURNEAU
Most California cities are well behind on their state-mandated housing targets. But of the dozen or so that the state has deemed noncompliant, none matters more to the Bay Area housing shortage than Brisbane.
Industry News
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Real Estate Technology
Can tech keep agents out of trouble for listing mistakes?
SKYLAR LAWRENCE-LEBEL, HousingWire (Subscription)
Buyers need to trust what they’re seeing before they can picture themselves living somewhere. Once that trust is broken, it’s difficult to rebuild. Technology can distort that picture and diminish trust, or it can be used to establish it.
Property News
First Town Ever Sold on eBay Is Heading Back to the Market
HANNAH CHAMBERS, Realtor.com
Bridgeville, CA, made history in 2002 as the first town to ever be sold on eBay, and soon, it will be up for grabs again.
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