- Sep 16-17, 2025|San Diego, CA
Brian Parker is SVP, National HR Consulting and Workforce Solutions Leader at Alera Group. He leads the Alera Group division responsible for helping clients create strategies to attract and retain talent and transform the way they serve employees. His guidance empowers organizations to better engage their people and find the right technology and services to carry out their mission.
-
Both purchase and refinance activity declined last week, despite rates falling to a two-month low with market concerns over geopolitical and tariff issues.
June 18
-
Home sellers, no longer required to pay the buyer's representative after major rule changes last year, are still covering the costs as concessions.
June 18
-
The Trump administration is seeking to fire roughly 90% of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's staff and is fighting for that right in court. But if the administration prevails, can other consumer protection authorities from other federal regulators pick up the slack?
June 18
-
Prior to this development, the CFPB was the sole industry participant to publish an average prime offer rate index on a weekly basis.
June 17
-
The closed meeting between the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Treasury, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is the first publicized in some time.
June 17
Only 20% of the Top Producers in the National Mortgage News survey were under 40, while almost half were between 41 and 50, and 30% even older.
Those who raced ahead of the pack of loan originators last year went the distance by offering exceptional customer service, catering to niche pockets of demand in the market.
-
As the Federal Reserve considers changes to the supplemental leverage ratio, Fed Board Chair Jerome Powell said that effort is one piece of a broader deregulation package that will also address the Basel III capital rules.
June 25
-
Nonbank mortgage companies are regulated on the state level, but multistate examinations allow for virtual nationwide and industry-wide coverage.
June 25
-
US purchases of new homes fell in May by the most in almost three years as rampant sales incentives fell short of alleviating affordability constraints.
June 25
-
The CEO of Union Home Mortgage is joining Dream Finders Homes' CEO Patrick Zalupski and others in a bid to purchase the Major League Baseball team.
June 25
-
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has bundled the riskiest portions of over a dozen Freddie Mac mortgage bonds tied to small balance apartment loans in what appears to be the first time this sort of debt has been securitized not once but twice.
June 25
