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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.

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.

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.

The agency found a 40% error rate in the 2016 data submitted by the Seattle bank. In addition to the fine, the institution is required to improve its compliance systems.

A 2019 decision by Amy Coney Barrett, then a 7th Circuit judge, cited an earlier Supreme Court ruling suggesting a high bar for plaintiffs to claim harm. But other jurists have favored a less onerous standard.

The mortgage unit contributed $20 million of the $26 million the holding company earned over that period.