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HousingWireHousingWire Guild Mortgage announced on Wednesday the introduction of a new product line called the “Flex Payment Mortgage,” which includes Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-sponsored Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs), refinances, proprietary jumbo options and HECM for Purchase (H4P) loans. “Guild’s Flex Payment Mortgage is a suite of products combining federally-insured…

Most business owners are aware that most of New Hampshire’s municipalities have adopted zoning ordinances which regulate how land can be used. Businesses that are new to an area of the state, or that are growing and expanding, may encounter situations in which they need to seek relief from the…

HousingWireHousingWire Judge Andrea R. Wood, who is overseeing the two Batton homebuyer commission lawsuits and the Moehrl commission suit, has recused herself from the cases, according to a legal filing on Wednesday. In the filing, the Chicago-based U.S. district court judge said that it had recently come to her attention…

HousingWireHousingWire The city council of Portland, Oregon, unanimously passed what it is calling the city’s first-ever housing production strategy, which is based on a proposal introduced this summer by Commissioner Carmen Rubio. Like many major metropolitan areas across the country, Portland is facing a housing shortage as well as an…

HousingWireHousingWire Artificial intelligence is already a tool in Zillow’s search experience, and now the company is adding natural language capabilities to it. Zillow’s existing AI search capabilities already allowed for surfacing homes on the basis of things related to the home itself. Now the AI can search by commute times,…