Older Americans are increasingly being caught up in elaborate scams designed by perpetrators to drain them of their retirement savings, with the detail and scale of such scams sometimes requiring the intervention of federal law enforcement. This is according to an investigative report published this week by the The New…
Continue reading →The typical U.S. home seller pays a 2.55% commission to the real estate agent hired by their buyer, down from an average of 2.62% in January, according to a Redfin analysis of MLS data. In other words, the March 2024 settlement between the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and plaintiffs…
Continue reading →The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced on Friday that it has published a final rule in the Federal Register opening up communications between mortgage lenders and defaulted borrowers to remote and electronic methods. This is designed to broaden the ways for borrowers to meet with lenders following the success of…
Continue reading →A new sponsored episode of the HousingWire Daily podcast — hosted live from the 2024 HousingWire AI Summit — features Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler in conversation with CoreLogic data experts Amy Gromowski and Anand Singh. Gromowski, the company’s head of data science, and Singh, the vice president of GenAI…
Continue reading →Kyle Dimick Guest Kyle Dimick, a 22-year-old Plymouth State University (PSU) graduate, shares his story of patenting a prototype that makes hygiene tasks more accessible for individuals with limited mobility. Thanks to his mentors at PSU’s Makerspace, Dimick will continue to develop his business strategy to bring on investors and…
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