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Just like a football team entering the red zone — the area of the field inside the opponent’s 20-yard line — should be extra cautious to avoid wasting a scoring chance, Americans who are nearing retirement should dial back aggressive investment strategies. That’s the advice of Kevin Wade, a financial…

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced on Monday that it has charged lender Rocket Mortgage, two appraisal companies and one appraiser with allegedly issuing a biased valuation and denying a refinance loan to a Black homeowner in Denver.  The HUD accused appraiser Maksym Mykhailyna and his…

How would the housing market fare under a potential second Trump administration? Mark Calabria, the former Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) director under Trump, has some ideas. And no surprise — he’d like to be part of that administration if asked. According to Calabria, who currently serves as a senior…

Data is a relevant and valuable tool for assessing where a business or an industry is at any given time. But looking deeper than the core numbers is essential, especially when considering the shifting realities and governing rules for an industry as intertwined between public and private interests as the…

Is it darkest before the dawn? If we look at the housing market right now, sales are down, new listings are down, prices are decelerating. But, if we look at the data right now, things look the most bearish they have all year. Good inflation data came in last week,…