A California real estate broker who owns an escrow business was arrested on a federal criminal complaint alleging they fraudulently sold a luxury home and obtained a nearly $1 million loan using stolen identities and false documents. According to the charges in this...
A Connecticut farmhouse property dating back to the Colonial Era has been listed at $8 million. Patch.com reports the Greenwich property is owned by former NFL star quarterback Chris Simms and his wife Danielle, who acquired it in 2019 for $2.5 million. The historic...
After rising slightly over the past three weeks, mortgage rates took a slight dip in the latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey published by Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC). The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.09% as of Feb. 12, down from last week when it averaged...
Chicago Title Insurance Company has filed a lawsuit this week in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York claiming that it was the victim of an email compromise scheme that resulted in $4.1 million being diverted from a real estate closing in...
Existing home sales began 2026 in decline, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). During January, existing home sales were down by 8.4% month-over-month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.91 million. On a year-over-year measurement,...
A total of 1.72 million mortgages secured by residential property (one to four units) were issued in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to data from ATTOM. That marked a 6% decrease from the third quarter and was mostly the same as the volume in the fourth quarter...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of March 16-20
