Nestor R. Weigand Jr., a Kansas real estate executive who served as president of the National Association of Realtors in 1988, passed away on Nov. 1 at the age of 84. Weigand was born in 1939 and graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BBA in finance in...
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has called out the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for creating regulations that have negatively impacted efforts to address the production of affordable housing. In testimony delivered today before the U.S. House...
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has launched a state flood disclosure tracker, which the trade group promoted as helping to “educate the public and Congress as it considers the Federal Emergency Management Administration’s (FEMA) legislative proposals to...
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) has reached outside of the real estate industry for its leadership by recruiting Nykia Wright as its interim CEO, effective Nov. 20. Wright was formerly CEO of the Chicago Sun-Times and is co-founder of SonicMessenger, a...
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is seeking feedback on proposed policy updates to its Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program. According to an announcement issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the proposed updates are...
Accurate Group, a Cleveland-headquartered provider of technology-driven real estate appraisal, title data, analytics, and e-closing solutions, has acquired Voxtur Appraisal Services LLC, an appraisal management company (AMC) serving real estate finance providers. The...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of Aug. 10-14
