The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has another new leader with the appointment of Russell Vought, the newly sworn-in director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB), taking over the agency as acting director. The Wall Street Journal,...
Staff members from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are inside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and will receive read-only access to the agency’s computer systems – while Musk left a message on X suggesting the agency was dead....
New leadership at federal agencies, a possible cause for some of the Los Angeles wildfires, and new HGTV shows that don’t seem very new. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Feb. 3-7. Hit: The Right Man for the...
A new bill in the Colorado legislature will enable churches and other religious institutions to build housing on their land, even if the property is not zoned for residential construction. Colorado Sun reports House Bill 1169 is sponsored by Rep. Andrew Boesenecker...
The 60,000-member Miami Association of Realtors, the nation’s largest local realtor trade group, has installed Eddie Blanco as its 2025 chairman. Blanco, a Miami Lakes resident, is the broker and owner of Stratwell, a real estate brokerage with offices in Miami and...
Gilbane Development Company, the Providence, Rhode Island-based real estate development and asset management arm of Gilbane Inc. announced the appointment of James Patchett as its new president and CEO. Patchett previously served as partner in the real Estate practice...