The Dodd-Frank Act is being voted on by the House this upcoming Wednesday. In mid-April, Republicans proposed a reform to the financial system, The Financial Choice Act, which is essentially an “off-ramp” for financial institutions. Find this and more in the Week Ahead.

Discouraging results in the May 2017 Employment Situation are leading experts to believe there could be a rate hike in 2017. Unemployment rates were fairly stagnant and though total nonfarm payroll increased, results were well under predictions. Wage growth showed no improvement. 

According to the latest Mortgage Bankers Association weekly survey ending May 31, 2017, mortgage applications decreased since last week’s report. The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage ...

Elm Street Technology (EST), who offers a portfolio of real estate technology and marketing services companies for agents, teams, and brokerages, recently announced the acquisition of Consolidated Knowledge, a technology platform provider to the residential real estate and multi-family industries. EST aims to offer a single technology solution for lead generation. The acquisition is the next step in EST’s ongoing efforts to consolidate the real estate industry’s leading technology and marketing service providers.

HouseCanary has integrated their appraisal software into a mobile application. HouseCanary Appraiser now allows appraisers to use the software without relying on web browsers. Appraisers can write reports from start-to-finish on site and cut down on time and costs.

According to the Redfin Housing Demand Index, the amount of customers requesting home tours and writing offers is on an incline. This large demand has lead to housing price increases and shortages in inventory, which has caused experts to wonder if the result will be a cooling of the market. Of the 15 markets Redfin covers, Seattle is currently on track to be the metro with the least inventory.

On Wednesday, Zillow will release data on the effects international buyers have on the higher end of the housing market. A related report said foreign born homebuyers helped ...

Meritage Homes has partnered with Operation Homefront to continue providing mortgage-free, energy-efficient homes to military families. The companies will work with the Homes on the Homefront program to provide a new home in Dallas, Texas. This is the fifth year the two companies will be working together, having helped 600 families since 2012.

Black Knight Financial Services launched its Municipal Lien Search solution Wednesday to help uncover property debts and reduce risk associated with liens not included on property reports or outside of the scope of title insurance coverage. County debts; code and force violations; waste, water, ...

Asurity Technologies, an enterprise formed to provide the financial services industry with RegTech solutions, announced its formation as an entity bringing together Treliant Solutions, LLC, Risk Management Solutions, Inc., and Mortgage Resources Group, LLC into an integrated compliance platform. According to Asurity, this platform will allow lenders to establish compliance, proactively manage a fair lending and redlining risk, and submit for both HDMA and CRA.