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The News Corporation (NWS) news page on Stock Titan aggregates coverage related to the company’s diverse media and information businesses, as described in Polygon data and recent press releases. News Corp’s activities span news publishing through brands such as The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, digital real estate platforms operated by its subsidiary Move, Inc. under the Realtor.com® brand, book publishing via HarperCollins, and business information services through Dow Jones.
Many recent items originate from Realtor.com®, which is operated by News Corp subsidiary Move, Inc. These releases present detailed analyses of U.S. rental trends, mortgage rate distributions, housing inventory, first‑time homebuyer markets, down‑payment timelines, luxury housing conditions and the performance of flipped homes. They also describe product and partnership developments, such as the integration of CubiCasa interactive floor plans into Realtor.com® listings and the launch of the PropTech Startup Showdown at SXSW in collaboration with National Association of REALTORS® Tech & Innovation.
Other news highlights Dow Jones, a division of News Corp, including an exclusive partnership with Polymarket to display prediction market data across Dow Jones consumer platforms like The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Investor’s Business Daily. This type of coverage focuses on how Dow Jones incorporates new data sources into its products.
Investors and observers using this page can follow News Corp‑related developments in areas such as housing market research, digital real estate product enhancements, financial information services and corporate partnerships. By reviewing this stream of company‑linked announcements and analyses, readers can see how News Corporation’s various subsidiaries and divisions are positioned across media, data and online real estate.
NWS — Luxury U.S. home prices largely stabilized at the end of 2025 with the national 90th-percentile luxury threshold at $1,192,866 in December, down 0.6% year-over-year. The 95th percentile was $1,903,974 (-1.4% MoM, -3.0% YoY) and the 99th percentile was $5,531,567 (+0.8% MoM, -4.1% YoY). Million-dollar listings made up 12.0% of inventory (-0.8pp).
Price gaps vary widely by metro: national luxury is ~3× the median, but in markets like Bridgeport and Naples luxury exceeds local medians by >5×, while Orlando and several Sun Belt metros show much smaller luxury-to-median multiples (~2.1–2.3×). Miami now leads the nation in $1M+ listings, surpassing New York.
Realtor.com® (NWS) launched Realtor.com®+™ on Jan 21, 2026, a collaborative home-search platform built with MLSs to improve agent‑client collaboration, transparency and MLS branding.
The platform is live for all 20,000+ Canopy MLS subscribers, with 16 MLS agreements signed or coming live representing over 122,000 professionals. Realtor.com+ integrates Zenlist technology (acquired by the company), and has signed future integrations with RPR, DocuSign and Hover to add market insights, agreement workflows and property visualization.
News Corp (NYSE:NWS) will release its Fiscal 2026 second quarter results on Thursday, February 5, 2026. The earnings release will be posted on the company's investor website prior to a live audio webcast.
Chief Executive Robert Thomson and Chief Financial Officer Lavanya Chandrashekar will discuss results on a live audio webcast at 5:00 p.m. EST (Sydney: Feb 6, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. AEDT); a replay and archived webcast will be available on the investor site after the call.
Dow Jones (NWS) announced Factiva has secured licensing rights from more than 8,000 premium news and business sources for GenAI use, adding over 4,000 new licensed sources since the initial launch of Factiva Smart Summary.
Factiva positions itself as an AI marketplace supplying licensed, traceable, copyright-compliant content to power enterprise GenAI tools, APIs and the Factiva.com platform, citing major publisher partners and emphasizing provenance and publisher compensation.
Realtor.com (NYSE:NWS) reports asking rents across the 50 largest U.S. metros fell 0.7% year‑over‑year in December 2025 to a median of $1,689, the 29th consecutive annual decline. However, rent relief is concentrated at the high end: since Dec 2019 the median asking rent rose 16.9%, the 25th percentile rose 19.9% and the 75th percentile rose 12.5%, indicating affordability pressures for lower‑cost rentals. From Dec 2022–Dec 2025 the median eased 2.3% while the 25th percentile only fell 0.8%, showing shallower relief for cheaper units.
Realtor.com (NWS) analysis of FHFA data shows that in 2025 Q3 the share of U.S. outstanding mortgages with rates 6% or higher reached 21.2%, surpassing the 20.0% share with rates below 3%. More than half of mortgages (51.5%) remain at or below 4%, and 68.6% carry rates of 5% or lower, sustaining a strong rate-lock effect. The share of mortgages above 6% rose by over four percentage points year-over-year to 21.2%, while modest easing into the low-6% range and improved housing supply are beginning to ease mobility constraints for some sellers.
Realtor.com (NWS) announced a strategic integration with CubiCasa to add interactive floor plans and CubiCasa Tour content directly to Realtor.com listing pages. The change will make high-quality floor plans more prominent on listings, helping home shoppers visualize layout and flow earlier in the search process. The partnership aims to increase availability of floor plans, create richer listing experiences for buyers, and support an industry shift toward making floor plans a standard feature on every listing. Realtor.com and CubiCasa position the move as improving transparency and comparison capability for consumers and agents.
Realtor.com (NWS) reports U.S. housing inventory expanded for the 26th consecutive month in December 2025, with active listings at 976,833 (+12.1% YoY) while month-over-month listings fell 8.9% due to typical seasonality. The national median listing price was $399,950, down 0.6% YoY. Inventory growth decelerated after midyear peaks, leaving national inventory still 12.5% below 2017–2019 norms. Regional splits persisted: Northeast and Midwest remained tighter with price-per-square-foot gains, while the South and West saw stronger inventory growth and softer prices. At the metro level, 9 of the 50 largest markets exceed pre-pandemic inventory by ≥25%, while 16 remain ≥25% below pre-pandemic norms.
Polymarket and Dow Jones (Nasdaq: NWS) announced an exclusive partnership to publish Polymarket’s real-time prediction market data across Dow Jones consumer platforms, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Investor’s Business Daily.
Polymarket data will appear in dedicated digital data modules (homepage and market pages), select print placements, and new consumer features such as a custom earnings calendar showing market-implied expectations around corporate performance. Additional data-driven experiences are planned to roll out over time.
Realtor.com (NWS) released its Best Markets for First-Time Homebuyers 2026 ranking, naming Rochester, NY; Harrisburg, PA; and Granite City, IL as the top three markets.
The report highlights affordability, inventory, local amenities and metro forecasts, noting all 10 featured places have median listing prices affordable to median 25–34-year-old earners under a 30% payment-share rule (assumes 6.25% mortgage, 30-year, 10% down). Only 35.2% of evaluated places meet that affordability standard and the typical U.S. household needs seven years to save for a down payment.