Category Archives: Real Estate News

Home Rentership Society

Page 1 of 4 | Next PageShow Entire Article I spent this morning at a conference by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. They released a survey showing one in four renters, low and middle income, are spending more than … Continue reading

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‘Optimism’ In Housing?

Page 1 of 3 | Next PageShow Entire Article Thanks to all the streaming feeds of constant news I’m subjected to, I just clicked on a CNBC story titled, Four Years Later, Housing Market Shows Signs of Life.” I was … Continue reading

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Does Private Mortgage Insurance Have a Place in the New Mortgage Order?

Page 1 of 2 | Next PageShow Entire Article It’s no surprise that the private mortgage insurance industry is fighting hard against proposed new risk retention rules for the mortgage industry. They are already trying to pick themselves up and … Continue reading

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Foreclosure Fight Needs to Find Fast Answers

Page 1 of 4 | Next PageShow Entire Article As federal regulators clamp down on foreclosure procedures at the big banks, and the government sets new lender requirements for risk retention in residential mortgages, the cry from the industry is … Continue reading

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Federal Regulators Hit Banks on Mortgage Practices

Page 1 of 4 | Next PageShow Entire Article It’s not the big penalty from the fifty state attorneys general, but it will hit big bank bottom lines in a big way. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, … Continue reading

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