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Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 467,000 jobs were created in January. This was a big surprise as some people, including me, thought the rise in the number of sick days being reported could impact this month’s job

Stacey Onnen, who recently served as president of eXp Realty and, before that, operations manager of Realty ONE Group, has been brought into the Keller Williams fold as a member of the executive leadership team. This comes on the heels

As Los Angeles’s homeless problem escalated, the very part of L.A. government charged with helping the homeless left millions of federal dollars on the table. That is the finding of a U.S. Housing and Urban Development Inspector General report released

California-based nonbank mortgage lender Pennymac Financial Services posted record loan production last year, but a significant decline in net profits. Reflecting the higher rate landscape, in the last three months of 2021, the servicing segment brought more returns to the

Freddie Mac recently announced that its credit-risk transfer (CRT) program is projecting note-issuance volume of at least $25 billion in 2022. The government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) has made its first down-payment on that projection by issuing two single-family CRT note offerings

Hosted by Stavvy Collateral valuation is a critical component of mortgage lending and the home sales With the federal foreclosure moratorium expiring in 2022, the market will undoubtedly see growth in foreclosure transactions as it tries to catch up on

The second annual Finance Leaders award will be closing today, but there’s still time to nominate someone before the end of the day! In its second year, this new award recognizes the senior executives who drive growth and are moving

There are some interesting trends that have come out of the boom years of 2020 and 2021. The realignment of the mortgage industry should make us all rethink how we look at lenders by category. Rather than looking at bank-owned

U.S. home sellers made a pretty penny in 2021, with the nationwide realized profit growing by 45% year-over-year, according to a new analysis published by real estate data vendor ATTOM this week. Per ATTOM’s year-end home sales report, on average

Consumer advocates, fair housing groups, banks and mortgage lenders don’t always play on the same team, but today they joined forces to critique the Federal Housing Administration’s proposed servicing defect taxonomy. In a joint letter to Lopa Kolluri, FHA’s principal

The controversial author Christopher Booker suggested in a tome-length book, that all narratives belong to one of seven types. In his conception, all of history’s fiction is reducible to seven story typologies. In other words, there are no new stories

Milo, a Miami-based digital lender, announced last week that it is rolling out a crypto mortgage product to clients with digital currency. Josip Rupena, the CEO of Milo, hopes that his mortgage product will allow borrowers who may not be

Can allegations of redlining sink a bank merger? Not for Evansville, Indiana-based Old National Bancorp’s acquisition of Chicago-based First Midwest Bancorp, which the Federal Reserve today approved. The merger will create a bank with $45.8 billion in combined assets, the

I have been a happy camper lately, particularly with the rise of the 10-year yield as I am seeking balance in the housing market. I love these times in the market and the San Francisco 49ers are making an epic

ONE Sotheby’s International Realty agent Jessica Adams is under fire after TechCrunch co-founder and crypto investor, Michael Arrington took to Twitter on Tuesday alleging that Adams had leaked information about his purchase of a Miami waterfront mansion to the press,