Malls are dying in droves. There’s a nationwide shortage of housing inventory. Could the solutions to these two problems overlap?
Read More »Battling Zombie Homes . . . and Plywood
Plywood is unsightly and advertises that a home is vacant. How do you fight against the spread of so-called zombie homes?
Read More »Silver Lining to Rising Home Prices . . .
Home prices continue to climb both year-over-year and month-over-month, according to the October 2017 Home Price Index (HPI) released by CoreLogic Tuesday Morning. Nationally, prices increased by 7 percent from October 2016 to October 2017—representing the second consecutive month of ...
Read More »Quicken Calls Lawsuit ‘Meritless and Frivolous’
A newly filed class action lawsuit alleges that the online lender used keystroke loggers to collect personal information from visitors to their website.
Read More »Senate Banking Committee Approves Jerome Powell as Fed Chair
Powell's nomination as Fed Chair now moves on to a full Senate vote before he can be confirmed in the position.
Read More »FHFA: House Prices Remain on the Rise
According to FHFA’s House Price Index analysis, home prices continues to tick upward in Q3 2017, with a significant jump over Q3 2016.
Read More »When It Comes to Interest Rates, Mind the Curve
The Fed is expected to continue gradually raising interest rates in 2018, but the president of the St. Louis Fed urges caution along that path to avoid a “yield curve inversion.”
Read More »What the Tax Reform Could Mean for Housing
On Monday, the latest data on the mortgage market was released—reporting an analysis of the proposed tax reform. What impact could changes to the tax code have on housing?
Read More »If You Build It…
Residential construction spending has been trending upwards in recent years, but is that holding true as we wind toward the end of 2017?
Read More »McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce Expands, Welcomes Former Buckley Madole Shareholders
The acquisition includes regional offices in several states, and sees several Buckley Madole shareholders joining MRLP as partners.
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