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Samantha Barbieri is a manager at Marks Paneth LLP.

This deal comes a little more than two months after CIS combined with Avantus.

For the second month in a row, South Florida residential sales are beating out 2019. They're also driving up prices, bringing the median price for a single-family home in Miami-Dade and Broward counties to $425,000 — the highest ever.

Mortgage application fraud risk dropped drastically from 2019 with the spike in refinances, but the fallout from the coronavirus means next year could come with more risk, according to CoreLogic.

Dana Wade is Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Former MBA chair and owner, president, and CEO of Union Home Mortgage, Bill Cosgrove, provides a peek into his pandemic playbook and offers advice to smaller lenders on how to stay competitive amid a rash of companies going public.

The company said it is "engaging with third parties" that are reportedly willing to pay at least $14 per share more than Senator Investment and Cannae Holdings.

Will Bailey, Chief Strategy Officer at InvestCloud, has worked for the fintech firm since the company's founding. Prior to his appointment as CSO he moved to London to head investCloud’s European expansion. He also previously led the platform technology and product management groups.

Black borrowers locked in an average mortgage rate of 4.44% for conventional loans — 15 basis points higher than white borrowers, according to an analysis of HMDA data by the National Association of Real Estate Brokers.

But for the first time in a month, fewer consumers refinanced into a government-guaranteed mortgage.