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Christina Hughes Babb is a reporter for DS News and MReport. A graduate of Southern Methodist University, she has been a reporter, editor, and publisher in the Dallas area for more than 15 years. During her 10 years at Advocate Media and Dallas Magazine, she published thousands of articles covering local politics, real estate, development, crime, the arts, entertainment, and human interest, among other topics. She has won two national Mayborn School of Journalism Ten Spurs awards for nonfiction, and has penned pieces for Texas Monthly, Salon.com, Dallas Observer, Edible, and the Dallas Morning News, among others. Contact Christina at [email protected].

The Housing Industry’s Mixed Reactions to New Eviction Moratorium  

Many in the housing industry are reacting to an announcement Tuesday that the Trump administration, by way of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has put a new conditional eviction ban in place, effective immediately.   The order follows President Trump’s early-August Executive Order, which directed the CDC ...

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CDC Orders Temporary Halt to Residential Evictions

The Trump administration said it will use its quarantine authority to keep renters in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic as a way to prevent an eviction crisis that could worsen economic strains. Bloomberg first reported the news. The Centers ...

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Fannie Mae’s Head of Multifamily, Jeffery Hayward, Promoted

Fannie Mae has appointed Jeffery Hayward to the newly created position of EVP and Chief Administrative Officer and Michele Evans as EVP and Head of Multifamily, effective immediately. Hayward, previously Head of Fannie Mae’s Multifamily business, will lead Fannie Mae’s ...

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Where Zombie Properties Are Accumulating

zombie home

A new report indicated that 1.6 percent of all homes in the U.S. are vacant, numbering 1,570,265 residential properties, with 7,960 or 3.7% of those vacant properties in the process of foreclosure, otherwise known as “zombie foreclosures.”  That is according ...

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BSI Financial Announces Key Executive Promotions

BSI Financial Services, a mortgage-centric financial services company, today announced it has promoted Larry Goldstone to President of Capital Markets and Lending and John Lawrence to President of Servicing and Lender Services. A 20-year veteran of the mortgage industry, Lawrence ...

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