Eleven defendants have been arrested for running a real estate crime ring that stole the identities of elderly homeowners for title deed theft and loan fraud. According to the indictment, between January 2021 to May 2023 the fraudsters obtained the personal...
February closed sales totaled 12,618 across the Mid-Atlantic region covered by the Bright MLS service area, down 1.1% year-over-year, while new pending sales were down 0.5% from one year earlier. New listings for the region totaled 15,833, down 11.1% year-over-year,...
Police have made an arrest in a 2011 cold case of an Iowa realtor killed while conducting an open house. Ashley Okland was 27 years old when she was fatally shot inside a model townhouse in West Des Moines on April 8, 2011. According to combined media reports, Kristin...
A total of 6,759 homes were sold in Pennsylvania during February, a 1.7% year-over-year uptick but a 48% spike from the previous month. “I think the month-over-month increase in sales reflects the more moderate temperatures we’ve been having across the...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has dropped his lawsuit against Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), after claiming Pulte used a mortgage fraud investigation against him as an act of political retribution. Politico reports the lawsuit was...
Hispanics recorded a net gain of 441,000 owner households during 2025, bringing their total to a new high of 10.2 million homeowners. According to a data report from the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP), 2025 marked the largest...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of April 6-10
