Product Updates
Week 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.
- Improved
- App no longer interrupts active audio sessions on launch — your music or podcast continues playing uninterrupted.
HW Mobile App
iOS & Android
iOS and Android app users will now keep their own music or podcasts playing when they open the app.
- New
- Session tiles with images on the event hub.
- On-demand video on each individual session page.
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.
