The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced its conditional approval for Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) to engage in a limited pilot to purchase certain single-family closed-end second mortgages. The conditional approval follows FHFA’s first publication of a...
Joe Jaeger, a prominent developer and hotelier in New Orleans, passed away at the age of 77 on June 23 from injuries sustained from a car crash last week. According to combined media reports, Jaeger would often describe himself as “just a plumber from the Ninth...
Home Depot (NYSE:HD) announced that its philanthropic Home Depot Foundation has granted $9 million to provide housing for over 3,400 veterans dealing with homelessness. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, an average of 35,000 veterans...
The commercial real estate brokerage and investment firm CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) announced plans to combine its Project Management business with Turner & Townsend, its majority-owned subsidiary that provides program management, cost consultancy and project...
Disappointing housing and personal finance data reports, an unlikely business enjoying property tax breaks and a land transfer that rights a historic wrong. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of June 17-21. Miss:...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of June 22-26
