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The changes that affect how buyer broker commissions are paid go into effect on Aug. 17, but there's much uncertainty about carrying them out, said Ryan Tomasello of KBW.

The Section 121 exclusion and the step-up in basis are well known to financial advisors and tax professionals, but their clients will need to plan carefully to net the biggest potential savings.

Distressed borrowers in parts of Maine, Nebraska and West Virginia are the latest to get short-term leniency on government loan payments due to disasters.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Monday completed its rule establishing a nationwide database for a wide swath of financial companies — including payments companies, debt collectors, auto lenders — that have faced regulatory or legal penalties for consumer-related infractions.

Despite the surge of inventory, the number of available homes is still below pre-pandemic levels, while price movements show wide regional variations, ICE Mortgage Technology said.

At the end of 2024's first quarter, the top five lenders had an average origination volume of more than $7 billion.

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The trade group says it'll fight to keep real estate and business provisions intact in a pivotal debate over the expiring Trump tax cuts.

Certain borrowers cut off from help due to the market's elevated equity levels and rates may fare better under coming changes made at the direction of the FHFA.

Although experts are predicting an active season, actual damages could be lower depending on how many storms make landfall and where, Corelogic reported.

Following the closing of the transaction in the third quarter, Michael Isaacs, the CEO of GO Mortgage, will take the helm of the combined company.

The title insurance giant was one of several major mortgage players to suffer a hack late last year.

The announcement comes after weeks of criticism from the bureau's director over fees including title insurance and credit scores.

An index of contract signings from the National Association of Realtors dropped 7.7% to 72.3, the lowest reading since the early months of the pandemic.

The assumption process is highly manual and time consuming and the change from Dark Matter enables lenders to pull data from MSP back into the Empower system.

The Department of Veterans Affairs asked servicers to suspend foreclosures beyond May, with exceptions for circumstances like borrower readiness to proceed.

With home prices also climbing up faster than expected for the time of the year, median new loan payments headed higher by more than 2%, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury also rose in the past week as bond and note auctions got tepid responses from investors.

The Supreme Court decided to rule narrowly in Cantero v. Bank of America, N.A., sending the case back to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit with instructions to perform a more nuanced analysis on whether a New York escrow law unfairly discriminates against national banks.

Fears that foreclosures and abandoned property rates could spike once Covid-19 moratoriums ended have not come to fruition, Attom Data Solutions said.