The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) installed Laura Escobar, president of Lennar Mortgage, as its 2025 chairperson at a ceremony during the trade group’s 2024 Annual Convention & Expo. Escobar currently serves on several advisory boards and committees,...
Rosegate Mortgage LLC, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based mortgage lender, has created a partnership with Rice Park Capital Management LP, a Minneapolis-based private investment firm, to launch a direct-to-consumer origination platform that will provide home financing...
FICO (NYSE: FICO) has released the FICO Score Mortgage Simulator as a new analytic tool for mortgage professionals. According to the Bozeman, Montana-headquartered company, the new tool simulates the potential impacts to a consumer’s FICO Score with various simulated...
The Real Brokerage Inc. (NASDAQ: REAX) has opened a shareholder Q&A platform for use on the company’s upcoming conference call to discuss its third quarter financial results. Real Brokerage will hold the call at 8:30 a.m. ET on Nov. 7. With the new platform,...
The crossroads of politics and real estate, a new wave of restaurant closings and rats ruling in Chicago. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Oct. 21-25. Miss: Getting Data on Migrant Housing. Earlier this week,...
Federal agents raided the Cleveland-area home of Frank Sinito, a real estate developer and one of the nation’s most prominent owners of affordable housing complexes. According to News 5 Cleveland, the raid occurred on Wednesday at 7:00 a.m. The agents were identified...
MBA’S BROEKSMIT EXPRESSES ‘SIGNIFICANT CONCERN’ OVER PAUSING FORECLOSURES ON VA-GUARANTEED LOANS. Learn more at https://wrenews.com/mbas-broeksmit-expresses-significant-concern-over-pausing-foreclosures-on-va-guaranteed-loans/