Free College Tuition Can Come With Your New Home: Cities Where Your Kid Can Go To College for Free

Getty Images Climbing home prices and mortgage rates are already a major expense for many families—but a new address could help lighten the load of other costs, like college. Six cities across America offer free tuition—and free adds up to a ton. The average annual cost of attending college in the U

How are mortgage rates affecting housing demand?

It has been almost two months since mortgage rates spiked again, and my initial thought was this would tank housing demand. We had a positive 18-week period with purchase applications before mortgage rates started rising in September. I figured those increases would produce the same weakness in purc

The ‘Yellowstone’ Ranch Is Real—and Guests Can Pay To Stay There for Under $2,000 a Night When Filming Wraps

Courtesy of Paramount; Chief Joseph Ranch/Instagram The real star of the hit show “Yellowstone” is the Dutton Ranch, with its majestic mountain and rolling river views—and in real life, it’s a working cattle ranch where guests can pay to stay. On the show, the owner of the sprawling property is John

Better’s Chad Smith explores mortgage hiring trends, tech tools for 2025

In this week’s episode of the Power House podcast, HousingWire President Diego Sanchez sits down with Chad Smith, president and chief operating officer at Better. The duo discuss Smith’s decision to join Better, the company’s new platform and AI loan assistant, and its growth strategies going into 2