CoStar Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CSGP) has accused Zillow Group Inc. (NASDAQ: Z, ZG) of continuing to infringe on in its intellectual property despite a July lawsuit that accused the company using its copyrighted photographs without permission. CoStar Group filed a lawsuit...
More Than a Market Cycle I’ve been in this industry long enough to see markets rise and fall, interest rates swing wildly, and consumer sentiment shift almost overnight. We’ve seen booms that made headlines and busts that left scars. Yet through it all, one constant...
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,”...