MBA Education, the award-winning education division of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), has launched its Mortgage Banking Bound (MBB) program at Louisiana State University (LSU). The program offers a three-credit undergraduate course on residential mortgage...
Williston Financial Group (WFG), an Irvine, California-headquartered provider of title insurance and settlement services, has partnered with Gold Capital Partners, a Roseville, California-based real estate services enterprise, to launch the joint venture Metro United...
Oscar-nominated actor Mickey Rourke has taken to social media to deny that he is behind the GoFundMe campaign to raise money that would prevent his being evicted from his Los Angeles home. The 72-year-old Rourke posted an Instagram video declaring, “Something’s come...
President Trump has announced that he will seek to ban institutional investors from acquiring single-family homes. In a post on Truth Social, Trump declared, “For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the American Dream. It was the...
Mortgage application activity ended 2025 and began 2026 on the downturn, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) for the two-week period ending Jan. 2. The data includes adjustments for the year-end holidays. The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly investigating the owner of an Austin-headquartered real estate firm for alleged securities fraud. The Austin American-Statesman reports the SEC probe is aimed at Alan Stalcup, who runs GVA Property Management...
