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Limited inventory and high mortgage rates continue to push home prices higher, but the pace of growth is starting to slow down. That’s according to the monthly home price index report from CoreLogic, which shows that U.S. home prices grew by 4.9% year over year in May. That was the…

While many had hoped the Department of Justice’s interest in the real estate industry would wane with the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ commission lawsuit settlement agreement, that is clearly not the case. In a message on Realtor Hub, a forum for NAR members, trade…

Patrice Ficklin, who has served at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) since the agency’s founding in 2011, will depart for Fannie Mae to serve as the government-sponsored enterprise’s fair lending officer. The news was first reported by American Banker. Ficklin has been a mainstay at the CFPB, overseeing the…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) this week released updated loan-level data collected through the National Survey of Mortgage Originations (NSMO), according to a joint announcement. The data provides “updated mortgage performance and credit information for a nationally representative sample of mortgage borrowers…

The single-family rental (SFR) space has taken off since the financial crisis in 2008. Now a new segment within the SFR sector — luxury homes — is gaining steam. Point2, an international real estate search portal, analyzed its internal data, public records and other sources to determine that luxury rentals…