President Trump took to the lectern at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to deliver his much-promoted speech designed to outline his administration’s efforts to encourage affordable homeownership. However, the speech offered no new ideas and gave the...
The justices on the US Supreme Court were highly skeptical to the Trump administration’s arguments that the president has the authority to fire Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook over unsubstantiated allegations of mortgage fraud that occurred before she joined the...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced that its Office for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) launched an investigation into Minneapolis’ housing policies for potential violations of the Fair Housing Act and Title VI of the Civil Rights...
Pending home sales in December dropped by 9.3% from the prior month and were down by 3.0% from the previous year, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). On a regional basis, pending home sales were down in all four regions on a...
President Trump has commuted the sentence of a real estate developer who was convicted two years ago in a $50 million mortgage fraud involving Connecticut properties. Jacob Deutsch of Brooklyn was sentenced in January 2024 to five years in prison and fined $10,000 for...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of March 23-27
