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Less than 10 days into 2025, California is experiencing a multibillion-dollar wildfire disaster that is further shaking up the state’s already vulnerable ins...
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Redfin has started 2025 with a round of layoffs. The Seattle-based brokerage company laid off 46 employees on Thursday. In a statement emailed to ...
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With more than 153,000 people currently under evacuation orders in the Los Angeles area due to multiple wildfires, an estimated 10 deaths and thousands of st...
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It’s no secret that stubbornly high mortgage rates and sinking inventory levels are stunting housing markets across the country, particularly in places where...
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A reduction of 0.3% in home values and a slight increase in senior-held mortgage debt have led to the total amount of senior-held home equity dropping from i...
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The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs announced that it will hold a confirmation hearing on Thursday, Jan. 16, for Scott Turner to ...
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Today’s jobs report beat expectations, and in fact, the labor data was solid for jobs week, which means mortgage rates will stay elevated because it’s always...
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Real estate and mortgage firms are stepping up to help housing professionals and the Southern California community as wildfires ravage the area. Here’s a rou...
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Incenter Lender Services, a group of companies that help nonbank and depository mortgage lenders nationwide, announced this week the hiring of two new vice p...
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While the unemployment rate was up compared to the start of the year, the job market ended the year up, with 256,000 jobs added to the economy in December ac...
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In 2019, Chris A. Williams had a problem. He was working two jobs — selling shoes at Foot Locker and cleaning cars at Enterprise — but he wanted more out of ...
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According to BatchService and ResiClub Analytics, there were approximately 1.2 million “pocket listings” or off-market real estate sales in the United States...
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This week, the Seattle City Council had its first meeting of 2025 and housing was a key topic of discussion. But if the meeting itself was any indication, de...
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Many retirees have said they rely largely — and sometimes entirely — on Social Security benefits as their primary income stream in retirement. But in instanc...
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Mortgage verification services firm Xactus announced this week that it appointed Mike Brown, its former chief integration officer, as its new chief product o...
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in December released its 2023 Mortgage Market Activity and Trends report, which included a brief look at acti...
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In the newest episode of the Top of Mind podcast, host Mike Simonsen, the founder and president of Altos Research, sits down for a conversation with ...
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The raucous drama surrounding Las Vegas Realtors (LVR) has claimed two board members. Last week, outgoing President Merri Perry and Joshua Campa, ...
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Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson will leave her post on Jan. 19, a day before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump,...
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BRENTWOOD, Tenn.  — Brookdale Senior Living has received a $344.2 million loan to refinance a seniors housing portfolio. The portfolio comprises 47 communiti...
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Several fires burning more than 45 square miles in the Los Angeles area have forced more than 100,000 residents from their homes and killed five peop...