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December home sales in the Houston area jumped 14% from the year before, capping a dramatic turnaround over the course of 2019.
January 9
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The new owner of a 12-bedroom, $94 million home purchased in October received a $58 million, 10-year mortgage from HSBC.
January 9
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ClosingCorp, a San Diego-based provider of closing cost data, has purchased the WESTvm mortgage loan order management technology from West, an affiliate of Williston Financial Group.
January 8
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A Conference of State Bank Supervisors subsidiary settled a lawsuit with defendants who allegedly misused and reproduced copyrighted questions from a national exam mortgage loan officers take to obtain licenses.
January 8
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Though she stopped short of mentioning the FDIC and OCC by name, Fed Gov. Lael Brainard objected to several key elements of those agencies' proposal.
January 8
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Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mark Calabria discussed the possibility of having Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac operate under a consent order to allow the government-sponsored enterprises to be able to raise capital.
January 8
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The city of Detroit is expanding property tax exemptions for homeowners to help more residents avoid foreclosure, officials announced Wednesday.
January 8
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The owners of the former 3M corporate campus filed under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, which cancelled a scheduled foreclosure auction of the Austin property.
January 8
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Stock prices rose for publicly-traded homebuilders after Lennar Corp.'s fourth-quarter orders and revenue beat estimates, even as home prices fell in the quarter.
January 8
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Mortgage applications decreased 1.5% on a seasonally adjusted basis from two weeks earlier amid the annual end-of-year slowdown despite lower rates from global tensions, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
January 8
