Doug Vincent is president and CEO of VentriFlo, a Pelham startup company that is developing the world’s first pump to deliver a life-like pulse for use during cardiac-related surgery. When a healthy heart does its thing in the human body, it uses what’s called a pulsatile flow to rhythmically move…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire A new report from the Washington, D.C.-based Consumer Policy Center (CPC) warns that the common practice of percentage-based real estate commissions may be a financial disadvantage for home buyers and sellers. The report is titled “How Percentage-Based Commissions Can Harm Home Buyers and Sellers and What They Can Do…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Mortgage rates have leveled off over the past two weeks after consistent declines since the start of the year. HousingWire‘s Mortgage Rates Center showed that 30-year conforming loan rates averaged 6.80% on Tuesday, up 1 basis point in the past week, while 15-year conforming rates increased by 9 basis…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Homebuilders are facing unprecedented uncertainty from the Trump administration’s ever-shifting tariff threats, but for now at least, it’s not impacting new-home sales. According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), new-home sales in February rose 5.1% year over year…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire A duo of bipartisan lawmakers in the House of Representatives is proposing a bill that would establish the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as an independent, cabinet-level agency that would be broken away from its current home inside the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “The FEMA Independence Act,”…
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