Virginia

Priced-out Seattleites hoping for a housing market crash with Amazon expanding to two new "headquarters" locations might be disappointed.

Texas is expected to be the tipping point in online closing adoption, and title companies predict that e-closings will soon be standard operating procedure.

Amazon will choose two locations for its new headquarters, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited an unidentified person familiar with the matter.

Amazon has yet to announce the winning city for its second headquarters, but investors in JBG Smith Properties seem pretty convinced that northern Virginia is going to take the cake.

Movement Mortgage, citing the continuing deterioration of the housing market, is eliminating approximately 180 back office positions on Oct. 5.

Overall home sales on the Virginia Peninsula in August were on par with last year, but the median sales price of existing or resold homes continued to increase.

Casey Crawford, CEO of Movement Mortgage, bought First State Bank in Virginia last year. He has since injected more capital into the bank in an effort to reinvent it.

Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group and Virginia Community Bank have agreed to back out of a merger that would have been a rare instance of a nondepository lender acquiring a depository institution.

Five potential witnesses against Paul Manafort, including accountants and bankers, were identified Monday as a U.S. judge gave the former Trump campaign chairman's lawyers more time to review tens of thousands of documents handed over to them in recent weeks.

Movement Mortgage is laying off 100 employees nationwide as the lender founded by a former Carolina Panthers player braces for an industry slowdown.