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The White House is considering throwing its weight behind a push to increase a capital gains tax exemption for primary home sales ahead of the midterm election.

The servicer will pay $4.5 million in remediation to affected homeowners for incorrectly imposing force-placed insurance on thousands of borrowers.

The Senate passed a federal disaster tax relief bill, the Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act, by unanimous consent after a hold was lifted.

The trade group supports a narrow rewrite of the agency's manufactured home definition but it wants FHA valuation projections before lenders can scale.

Pending home sales, a real-time indicator of homebuying demand, dropped 2.5% to their lowest level since December, according to Redfin's latest report.

Mortgage production declined overall in July from activity earlier this summer amid growing rate volatility, according to two new originations reports.

A new bill would increase the capacity of state and local housing finance agencies to issue tax-free municipal housing bonds by exempting them from the PAB cap.

Long Island-based Dime Commercial Bancshares, which continues to transform itself from a thrift into a commercial bank, is eyeing additional expansion in the Garden State.

Jessica Martinez is the U.S. policy director at Fireblocks. Previously she served as senior director of government relations at the Blockchain Association, staff director of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, partner at Franklin Square Group, legislative director and deputy chief of staff in the U.S. House, and special advisor at the Federal Communications Commission.

In the latest round of posturing between the one-time merger partners, Two Harbors said the filing was part of a "familiar refrain" by UWM to blame others.