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New York's new law requiring lenders to honor their own mortgage payoff instructions reduces delays and costs for consumers, argues the American Land Title Association.

Jeremy Yohe is vice president of communications for the American Land Title Association. He can be reached at jyohe@alta.org.

Bola Akinsanya is the founder of Unlevered, a residential cost segregation and asset-depreciation platform for CPAs and real estate investors. She was previously Global Director of revenue and vetting systems at Airbnb.

CPI inflation remains above the Federal Reserve's 2% target, but the slower rate of increase gives the central bank time to weigh the best course of action.

Michael Burry, a GSE investor and early predictor of the Great Financial Crisis, is eyeing the senior preferred liquidation preference and a 2028 deadline.

Movement Mortgage added to its operations leadership and Click n' Close named a new chief information officer.

The award is one-third of the $26 million settlement the parent company of three servicers agreed to earlier this year to settle claims from a 2021 data breach.

Diwas KC is a professor at Emory University's Goizueta Business School, where his research focuses on healthcare delivery and pricing. He has been analyzing CMS-mandated hospital pricing data to build procedure-level benchmarks for the Georgia commercial market.  Data source for article: CMS-mandated hospital machine-readable files (2026), Georgia hospitals, commercial payer rates. Facility fees only — excludes physician and anesthesia fees.

Consensus estimates and BTIG analyst Douglas Harter's volume prediction both put Rocket ahead of UWM for the period, but by how much is where the two are different.

Mid-Atlantic home sales climbed in June as inventory grew, even with mortgage rates near 6.5%. High-income and repeat buyers led the gains, Bright MLS found.