Bill Bodnar of the Mortgage Market Guide discusses all the positive markers that point to more good times ahead. Specifically, he points to durable items, a pickup in housing, the tight labor market, rising starts, good existing home sales and the Goldilocks scenario.

A mortgage broker and a housing developer have each pleaded guilty to conspiring to deceive banks that ended up losing $5 million as a result of a condo-conversion scheme. So reports the Tampa Bay Times.

Zillow’s move into iBuying is a first step into a bigger makeover for the process of purchasing a home, CEO Richard Barton has said. So reports CNBC.