The Los Angeles-headquartered real estate brokerage The Agency has opened new offices in the Caribbean, Canada and Oklahoma. The company launched The Agency Jamaica, is the firm’s first office in Jamaica. Industry veterans Matthew ‘Taff’ Stevenson,...
Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) has appointed Peter Akwaboah to become executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO), effective May 20. In his new role, Akwaboah will be responsible for Fannie Mae’s chief information office, enterprise operations, business...
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP, a Los Angeles-headquartered law firm specializing in U.S. real estate, has hired Jason Adams as a partner. Adams joins Cox Castle’s litigation team and will focus on handling construction disputes and insurance and risk management...
The Federation of American Scientists is calling for the creation of a “national housing loss rate” that would measure how many people who lose their homes involuntarily. In a blog posting on the organization’s website by Yuliya Panfil, a senior fellow and director of...
The Miami Beach City Commission has voiced a unanimous opposition to a Miami-Dade County plan that would extend the Metromover elevated monorail system to South Beach, creating the first mass transit connection between the city and the Florida mainland. According to a...
Horizon Bank, the Michigan City, Indiana-based subsidiary of Horizon Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ GS: HBNC), has hired David Pendley as the divisional president of mortgage banking. In his new job, Pendley will lead the strategic direction of the bank’s mortgage banking...