The July 4th weekend in Ridgecrest, California, was met with a series of quakes that rattled rural western California, along with sections of Nevada and Arizona. Ridgecrest—located approximately 122 miles northeast of Los Angeles—felt three quakes of magnitude 6.4, 5.4, ...
Read More »Where Bad Credit Can Be Repaired
Apartmentguide.com released its best cities to repair bad credit and found that New Brunswick, New Jersey, to be the best market to repair bad credit. The release states that New Brunswick is New Jersey’s fastest-growing market, has a lower average ...
Read More »Technology’s Role in Dealing with Disasters
Chad Mosley is Chief Relationship Officer for Mortgage Contracting Services (MCS), a nationwide provider of property inspections, property preservation, REO property maintenance, HOA and utility services, property registrations, steel security products and other mortgage-related services. Mosley joined MCS in summer ...
Read More »Dorian Could Bring Losses of More Than $1B
Insurance Business America reports that insured losses from Hurricane Dorian in the U.S. could be between $500 million and $1.5 billion, according to estimates from analytics firm RMS. The projection represented insured losses associated with wind and storm-surge damage, as ...
Read More »What are the Presidential Candidates’ Views on Housing?
Ten Democratic Presidential hopefuls took the stage at the last Democratic Debate last week, and none mentioned one of the biggest issues facing the nation—the shortage of affordable homes. In a commentary in City Lab, Diane Yentel, President of the ...
Read More »Homeowner Debt and HELOCS
Personal loan volume increased threefold between 2011 2018, but according to a new report, U.S. homeowners have significant opportunity to use HELOCs to replace higher cost sources of credit.
Read More »How Climate Change is Impacting the NFIP
According to environment experts, climate change poses a significant risk to the National Flood Insurance Program, and the situation is likely to worsen in the coming years.
Read More »Wildfires and Housing: Knowing the Risks
After several years of these record-breaking wildfires, a new report examines properties at risk of damage from wildfires in the United States.
Read More »The Risks of Real Estate Fraud
Undisclosed real estate fraud, when an applicant intentionally fails to disclose additional real estate debt or past foreclosures, decreased in Q2, but according to CoreLogic, this fraud type is still one of the msot common forms of real estate fraud.
Read More »Hurricane Season Hitting its Peak
Hurricane Dorian is long gone, but forecasters are watching disturbances in the Atlantic that could turn into hurricanes in the days to come.
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