Refinance applications picked up as mortgage rates fell last week, but purchase loan activity had only a small gain, according to data released Wednesday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The MBA’s survey — which covers 75% of all retail residential mortgage applications in the U.S. — found that the…
Continue reading →Planning and Zoning Director Seth Creighton poses for a portrait on his last day on the job on Memorial Street in Franklin, on Friday afternoon. (Daniel Sarch/The Laconia Daily Sun photo) After three years on the job, this city’s Director of Planning and Zoning director, Seth Creighton, resigned to accept…
Continue reading →The Pease Development Authority Board of Directors is expected to discuss a renovation project to the existing Air Traffic Control Tower at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease. (Courtesy of Pease Development Authority) The Pease Development Authority’s Board of Directors is slated to vote Thursday, Aug. 8, on a proposed…
Continue reading →Adrianne Todman, acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), visited with local leaders in Cincinnati this week to talk about ways to address an affordable housing shortage in the city and across the state of Ohio, according to local reporting by the Cincinnati City Beat….
Continue reading →The Real Brokerage isn’t tapping the brakes on its rapid expansion. During its second-quarter 2024 earnings call on Wednesday, the company said it added almost 3,000 agents from April through June, a 70% year-over-year rise and a 250% increase compared to Q2 2022. The ballooning agent count pushed brokerage revenue…
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