Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTCQB) announced a series of changes within its leadership ranks. President David C. Benson will retire in early to mid-2024. He has been with the government-sponsored enterprise for 21 years and served in a wide range of positions, including interim...
RE/MAX Holdings Inc. (NYSE: RMAX), parent company of RE/MAX and Motto Mortgage, named Erik Carlson as its new CEO and a member of its board of directors. Carlson was most recently president and CEO of DISH Network Corp., where he ran the company’s two largest...
A new Wall Street Journal profile of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) suggests that the regulator needs its own regulator. The article “Strip Clubs, Lewd Photos and a Boozy Hotel: The Toxic Atmosphere at Bank Regulator FDIC” creates the impression of a...
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...