Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Tony Sertich to become the next executive director of the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA). Sertich was most recently the assistant deputy director at the Division of State Financial Assistance at the California Department of...
Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) has hired Matthew D. Abrusci as executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. Abrusci brings more than three decades of financial services experience spanning banking, capital markets, and securities law. He was...
Compass Inc. (NYSE: COMP) announced its $1.6 billion acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS) in an all-stock transaction. Madison, New Jersey-based Anywhere, formerly known as Realogy, is the parent company of the brands Century 21, Coldwell Banker,...
A new report is citing the rising costs of materials and labor as a contributing factor to the cancelation of several home renovation series on HGTV. HGTV has canceled seven shows over the past several weeks – “Christina on the Coast,” “The Flipping El Moussas,”...
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with the demand that it resume distributing Fair Housing Initiative Program (FHIP) funds to state- and city-level nonprofits tasked with...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: Yesterday, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte posted a message on his X page that he was soon to be the subject of spurious coverage from one of the nation’s most influential newspapers. “The Washington Post, like...