Nearly 2,000 mortgage lenders and resellers used Equifax’s promotional VantageScore 4.0 offering between April and September, the credit bureau said Thursday, providing one of the clearest company-reported measures yet of how quickly mortgage firms are testing...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development said Thursday that a multi-month operation involving federal and local law enforcement resulted in 491 arrests of people it described as fugitives living in federally assisted housing. HUD’s October 8 announcement...
Century Communities acquired substantially all the assets of HistoryMaker Homes, the family-owned Texas builder founded in 1949, in a transaction the buyer says will triple its Dallas–Fort Worth selling-community count. The October 8 announcement identifies the...
Two established Northern Colorado homebuilders have agreed to combine under the Baessler Hartford Homes name, a proposed merger that would unite operations across the region’s fast-growing Front Range communities. Hartford Homes announced the plan October 7,...
Homes priced in the entry-level tier now account for 36.2% of active U.S. listings, down from 38.1% in August 2019, according to a Realtor.com analysis released October 8. Over that span, the national price threshold defining a starter home rose from about $260,000 to...
Utah Title Agency Owner Charged After Alleged $670,000 in Unpaid Mortgage P…
