On Wednesday, U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) jointly released the new residential construction statistics for September 2017—reporting a decline in ...
Read More »Are Baby-Boomers Giving Up Homeownership?
On Wednesday RENTCafé, a research site providing original analysis on city-based studies and in-depth insights of the real estate market, reported that baby-boomers are currently dominating the rental ...
Read More »Secretary Carson: HUD Aiding South Floridians
On October 7, the Miami Herald published an op-ed by Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, highlighting the work HUD has done to help ...
Read More »OCC: Amendment to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a bulletin on Tuesday to publicize key fields—which examiners will use to validate the accuracy and reliability of ...
Read More »Top 5 Markets for Single-Family Housing
On Tuesday Ten-X, an online real estate transaction marketplace and the parent to Auction.com released its Top Single-Family Housing Markets Report for Fall 2017, covering the 50 largest ...
Read More »High Prices, Low Inventory: How are Home Sales Keeping Up?
On Monday, the October RE/MAX National Housing Report released, revealing that September marked the fifth month in 2017 to post a decline in home sales. Additionally, the reported ...
Read More »Top 10 Healthiest Housing Markets
On Monday, Housing Tides released its monthly housing research and analysis index, reporting that the national index score for market health fell to a value of 70.1 this ...
Read More »Quicken Loans Mortgage Services and CalyxSoftware Announce New Software
CalyxSoftware recently announced a new partnership with Quicken Loans Mortgage Services (QLMS), a division of Quicken Loans Inc., to power its Quicken Loans Origination System (Q-L.O.S.). According to ...
Read More »Wells Fargo and BofA Release Financial Results
On Friday, Wells Fargo and Bank of America released Q3 2017 financial results. Wells Fargo’s revenue dropped 2 percent—to $21.9 billion—compared to third quarter 2016. The bank noted ...
Read More »Ginnie Mae and VA Create Refinance Loan Task Force
Ginnie Mae and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently announced the shaping of the “Joint Ginnie Mae – VA Refinance Loan Task Force,” in an effort to ...
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