Employee at the center of the Move v. CoStar suit allegedly accessed 40 stolen documents by Brooklee Han for HousingWire

HousingWireHousingWire The employee at the center of the Move v. CoStar lawsuit granted his personal email access to roughly 40 documents prior to his departure for Move subsidiary Realtor.com, according to the latest filing in the legal battle between the two listing platform giants. On Tuesday, Move filed an amended…

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Opinion: Many mission-based landlords are at a breaking point by Jim Gray, Priya Jayachandran for HousingWire

HousingWireHousingWire By every metric, the nation’s affordable housing crisis has reached unprecedented heights. A record-high 22.4 million renter households are cost burdened, meaning they spend at least 30% of household income on housing and utilities, and we are short 7.3 million rental homes that are affordable and available to renters…

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FHLBanks to Treasury: Pumping more money into affordable housing will not address crisis by Flávia Furlan Nunes for HousingWire

HousingWireHousingWire Presidents and board chairs of the 11 Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks), under pressure to pump more money into affordable housing, sent letters to the U.S. Department of Treasury on Thursday saying that simply raising their contribution threshold will not address the complexities of the current housing crisis.  Instead, the…

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CFPB orders NewDay USA to pay $2.25M for providing misleading costs on 3,000 V.A. cash-out refis by Flávia Furlan Nunes for HousingWire

HousingWireHousingWire Florida-based V.A.-focused mortgage lender NewDay USA has reached an agreement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over allegations that it provided misleading and incomplete cost comparisons to borrowers seeking cash-out refinance loans, the parties announced on Thursday.  The deal, which includes a $2.25 million civil penalty, was reached…

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