A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider its dismissal of an appeal in the proposed class action accusing Realtor.com operator Move Inc. and related companies of selling real estate agents allegedly fake or deficient leads. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
Two of the biggest names associated with California’s retreat from homeowners insurance are moving—cautiously—in the opposite direction. State Farm General and Allstate have filed plans that could allow them to resume writing some new homeowners policies in California...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is preparing to put roughly $1.3 billion of vacant reverse-mortgage loans into the market, creating one of the more consequential distressed residential note sales on the federal calendar this fall.HUD’s Office of...
The Federal Reserve’s first rate increase since 2023 was only part of the message housing professionals received Wednesday. The more consequential signal for the months ahead may be in the central bank’s updated economic projections: policymakers now see inflation...
Mortgage rates moved sharply higher this week, pushing the housing market back to the edge of the 7% threshold just as buyers and builders were already confronting renewed pressure from borrowing costs. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rose to 6.95% as of...
The Senate Banking Committee voted Thursday to advance Brian Johnson’s nomination to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, moving President Donald Trump’s pick one step closer to taking charge of the agency that oversees consumer-finance laws...