An improbable relocation of FBI headquarters, HUD’s misplaced priority on climate and NAR’s too-generous donation to a Montana mayoral race. Looking into the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for this week. Miss: Sweet FBI Home Alabama?...
One might not expect to find the star of a major TV personality living in a mobile home – but, then again, the Pacific Palisades, California-based mini-residence of “Shark Tank” star Barbara Corcoran is not your typical mobile home. The New York Post pointed out...
If you have $35 million and a desire to own a Boston penthouse, you can be on the receiving end of the statement “Dude, you’re getting a Dell.” The Wall Street Journal reported Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, is selling his two-story penthouse at...
U.S. Sens. Mike Braun (R-IN) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) have introduced the Middle Class Borrower Protection Act to reverse the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) recent mortgage rule that changed to the Loan-Level Price Adjustment (LLPA), which many critics...
Mortgage rates continued to rise and nearly hit the dreaded 7% mark, according to Freddie Mac’s (OTCQB:FMCC) latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.96% as of July 13, up from last week when it averaged 6.81%. A year ago at...
Keller Williams (KW) announced former CEO Mark Willis is returning to the Austin-headquartered company as a strategic consultant. Willis served as president of KW from 2002 to 2005 and as CEO from 2005 to 2015. While he continued to own KW franchises, Willis’...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of May 11-15
