HousingWire
Product UpdatesWeek of May 18, 2020

This week's updates span the HousingWire site and app, data licensing delivery, and Altos email campaigns.

HousingWire

Site & Editorial

Readers will now see correctly formatted article quotes, more mortgage rate benchmarks, and refreshed market charts.

New
  • Four new Polly mortgage rate indexes added to the mortgage rates ticker and landing page. View here →
  • Refreshed interactive chart embeds across the Housing Market Tracker and its sub-pages. View here →

The Gathering

Event Hub

Attendees of The Gathering 2026 will find on-demand session video and a richer event hub.

New
  • Session tiles with images on the event hub.
  • On-demand video on each individual session page.

To access, open the Event Hub → and click on a session under Event Agenda.

HW Mobile App

iOS & Android

iOS and Android app users will now keep their own music or podcasts playing when they open the app.

Improved
  • App no longer interrupts active audio sessions on launch — your music or podcast continues playing uninterrupted.

HW Data

Snowflake & API

Enterprise customers receiving licensed data through Snowflake and the data API will now get new market stats and more reliable joins.

New
  • Customer-access controls that grant or revoke Snowflake access based on subscription status.
  • New Listings stat now available through the data API.
  • Pending-market stats on the data API: pending count, median price, and days on market.
Improved
  • Automated entitlement mapping between the Intel dashboard and Snowflake.
  • More consistent Property ID join keys across products.
Fixed
  • Open Lien property IDs that were causing poor joins with Listing data.

Altos Research

Client Email Campaigns

Altos customers who send automated market emails to their contacts will now see more delivered and fewer wrongly blocked.

Improved
  • Campaign emails now send in full when a recipient is on several campaigns.
Fixed
  • Fewer legitimate emails are wrongly flagged by scam detection.