The Department of Housing and Urban Development on Thursday announced an award of $2 billion in support of thousands of local housing and service programs across the U.S. This year’s ...
Read More »Death and Damage Toll from California Mudslides Rising
Update: As of Friday morning, January 12, the death toll had risen to 17. _________________________________________________ Heavy rains set off a series of massive mudslides in Montecito, California, killing ...
Read More »Entry-Level Home Price Boom Could Prove Unsustainable
The American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) International Center on Housing Risk has released a new installment of its National Housing Market Index (NHMI), examining the state of the market in the ...
Read More »Quicken Loans: Homeowners and Appraisers in Agreement
Estimates about home values among homeowners and appraisers were considerably closer to lining up during the final month of 2017, according to new data released by Quicken Loans. ...
Read More »CFPB’s Laurie Maggiano Leaves Behind a Legacy of Excellence
Sad news broke this past weekend with the announcement that industry icon Laurie Maggiano had passed away unexpectedly. Maggiano was Servicing and Secondary Markets Program Manager at the ...
Read More »The Week Ahead: A New Treasury Budget and Fed Balance Sheet
In addition to regular weekly reports such as the MBA Mortgage Applications Survey and the Fed Balance Sheet, this week will see the release of the monthly U.S. ...
Read More »Florida’s Housing Crisis Deepened by Puerto Rico Evacuees
Over three months after Hurricane Maria made landfall on the island of Puerto Rico, half of the island’s 3.4 million citizens are still without power, and many without ...
Read More »The Fed on Tax Reform, Inflation
The Federal Reserve released the minutes for the Fed’s December 2017 Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday afternoon, providing insights into the recent decision to increase interest rates, as well as ...
Read More »Nashville Joins Top Migration Destinations as Construction Booms
Music City is just one of several active metros seeing an increase in migration as residential construction surges.
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