House passage of H.R. 7024 will enhance the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and support affordable housing nationwide through the construction and rehabilitation of housing for low- and moderate-income households.
Read More »HUD Awards $39M+ to Prevent Safety Hazards
Funding through the Department’s Healthy Homes Production Grant Program helps ensure that low-income families’ homes are safer and healthier.
Read More »Q4 Luxury Home Prices Reach All-Time High
Redfin reports that in Q4 2023, the price of U.S. luxury homes rose at twice the pace of non-luxury homes, led by affluent buyers closing the deal in all-cash transactions.
Read More »Senate Hearing Tackles National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization
Senate Banking Committee Chair Sharrod Brown recently held a hearing to discuss the future of the National Flood Insurance Program, featuring a panel of experts highlighting the many repercussions of an expiration in the program.
Read More »Dissecting Mortgage Servicing From a Federal Perspective
In an upcoming webinar presented by the Five Star Institute’s Legal League, a panel of legal and government experts will examine trends in foreclosure volume, loss mitigation, and litigation challenges within the mortgage servicing space.
Read More »Dip in Rates Brings Resurgence in Bidding Wars
Redfin’s latest analysis of homebuyer trends has found that bidding wars are heating up as mortgage rates have dipped and the nation’s housing supply remains strained.
Read More »The Week Ahead: Empowering the REO Space
An upcoming FORCE-sponsored webinar will preview this March’s Velocity Conference, an event assembling the industry’s top REO professionals, agents and brokers, asset managers, property managers, attorneys, and servicers under one roof.
Read More »Stern & Eisenberg Names 13 New Shareholders
Warrington, Pennsylvania-based Stern & Eisenberg adds a crew of seasoned real estate and business law, general and mortgage default litigation, estate planning and administration attorneys as shareholders to the firm.
Read More »Sagent Taps Former Mr. Cooper President for Executive Chair Role
Sagent has named former Vice Chair and President of Mr. Cooper Chris Marshall as its new Executive Chair, tapped to strategize the fintech provider’s cloud-native software platform.
Read More »Overall Performance of Servicing Portfolios Declined in December
Latest estimates from the MBA find that 115,000 homeowners are now in forbearance plans nationwide, as mortgage servicers have provided relief to approximately 8.1 million borrowers since March 2020.
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