HousingWireHousingWire If there are winds of change at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), small and midsized nonbank mortgage lenders are hoping to slip the clutches of the consumer watchdog they say is, in many ways, duplicitous and unnecessary. In a letter sent Wednesday to CFPB acting director Russell Vought,…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is the latest housing agency to be targeted by the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts. On Thursday night, Bloomberg Law reported that HUD’s union president told the publication that HUD plans to “discharge 50% of its workforce.” “Antonio Gaines, president of…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire A steady stream of buyer clients will pay the bills and then some, but working with seller listings will propel you to great success in the real estate industry. Why? Because people are coming to you to purchase the property rather than you chasing them. However, making the leap…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Two Republican members of the Wisconsin Legislature are seeking to expand the scope of the state’s low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program while also aiming to target more than one-third of its credits to the state’s rural areas. This is according to reporting at WisBusiness. The state-based LIHTC program,…
Continue reading →EVERSOURCE ANNOUNCES SALE OF AQUARION WATER COMPANY Eversource Energy (NYSE:ES) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Aquarion Water Company to the Aquarion Water Authority (AWA), a quasi-public corporation and political subdivision of the State of Connecticut and a standalone, newly created water authority alongside the…
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