by | Feb 3, 2025 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. MLS PIN judge pushes forward with DOJ-stalled case Judge Patti B. Saris, presiding over the Nosalek v. MLS PIN...
by Beth McGuire | Jan 31, 2025 | Best Practices, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s biweekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it every other Friday afternoon. Eleventh Circuit vacates one-to-one consent rule on robocalls This past week in a robocalls case, “Insurance...
by | Jan 31, 2025 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
A new report from ATTOM Data shows that equity-rich locales remain concentrated in certain areas, with at least half of all homes with a mortgage considered equity rich located in more than 40% of U.S. zip codes. A mortgage is considered “equity-rich” if the remaining...
by | Jan 31, 2025 | Economy, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier |
At the New England CEO Summit today, Federal Reserve Governor Michelle W. Bowman warned against cutting rates too often, and advocated against overregulation for community banks. For the housing sector, Bowman’s reluctance to lower rates may prolong higher mortgage...
by | Jan 31, 2025 | Economy, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
The Federal Reserve declined to cut interest rates any further at its latest meeting—and the Fed’s preferred inflation metric now shows that the goal of 2% annual inflation remains elusive. In the latest monthly Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) report compiled...
by Beth McGuire | Jan 30, 2025 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Mortgage rates inched lower this week, still hovering below 7% but showing little change since earlier this month. The latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) released by Freddie Mac Thursday shows the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaging 6.95%, down...