The issue of so-called “zombie homes” is a problem for any major city. “Zombie homes” is a colorful name for an old problem, and one that continues to be widespread as the nation gains more distance from the housing crisis and the ...

One of the industry's leading providers of lender-placed insurance will now be independently owned after a buyout announced today. LP Insurance Services, LLC has agreed to acquire the assets of Loan Protector Insurance Services, a division of Willis Towers Watson. Based ...

CoreLogic, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, announced the appointment of Arnold A. Pinkston to the role of Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary effective January 2, 2018. Mr. Pinkston will serve on the company’s Executive ...

Industry veteran Scott McGregor is starting off the new year in a new role–Assurant, premier global provider of risk management solutions, announced his appointment as Managing Director of subsidiary American Title, Inc. (ATI), one of the industry’s top alternative title, ...

James L. Murrett, MAI, SRA, of Hamburg, New York, began his one-year term as president of the Appraisal Institute on January 1, 2018. The Appraisal Institute is the nation’s largest professional association of real estate appraisers with nearly 19,000 professionals ...

For anyone hoping for insights straight from the Presidents of the nation’s Federal Reserve Banks, this is a good week to clear your calendar. Fed Presidents from nearly a half dozen different Federal Reserve Banks are delivering speeches or participating ...

With thousands of cases unfolding across the country, keeping track of the ones that most impact your business can be a full-time job. Knowing what’s happening in the legal sphere as it pertains to your industry can be crucial, and ...

Update: This story has been updated to note FEMA's extension of the TSA program for 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 ...

NewView Advisors, LLC, a financial services firm based in New York, has released a new look at the state of HECM mortgage-backed securities for 2017. HECM is the Federal Housing Administration’s (FHA) Home Equity Conversion Mortgage reverse mortgage program, which ...

The latest single-family rental research from Morningstar Credit Ratings, LLC shows the rental market following familiar trends in the closing months of 2017, with more renters choosing to renew their expiring leases and delinquency rates holding steady. Morningstar’s Single-Family Rental ...