HousingWireHousingWire Heading into the 2025 housing market, we haven’t had this many homeowners with mortgage rates over 6% since 2016. According to the latest FHFA data, as of Q3 2024, 17.2% of outstanding mortgages, around 8.7 million borrowers, carry a mortgage with an interest rate over 6%. In the last…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire Bayview Asset Management and three subsidiaries have agreed to pay a $20 million fine and implement a corrective plan following a 2021 data breach that affected 5.8 million customers. The settlement, announced Wednesday by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, involves 53 state financial regulatory agencies. It includes Bayview…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire A coalition of attorneys general from 15 states and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over energy-efficiency standards for newly constructed homes that were finalized in April…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire The Real Brokerage is a already a top 10 company in terms of transaction volume and sides — and it continued its growth this week in two of the nation’s most populous states. Miami-based Real on Tuesday announced the addition of Harvest Realty, an independent brokerage in Southern California…
Continue reading →HousingWireHousingWire The lawsuits taking aim at the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) three-way membership agreement continue to pile up. W. Preston Moore, a former president of the Pennsylvania Association of Realtors (PAR) and an agent with Howard Hanna Real Estate Services, filed his antitrust suit in late November in U.S….
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