California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to protect Los Angeles County victims of the ongoing wildfires from predatory land speculators offering unsolicited cash offers to purchase their property. In a statement from the governor’s office, the executive...
Texas real estate developer Nate Paul entered a guilty plea to one charge of making false statements to a lending institution, thus ending the 18-month federal bank and wire fraud case connected to his work as related to his work as president and CEO of World Class...
MBA Education, the education division of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), has launched its Mortgage Banking Bound (MBB) program at Cleveland State University. The program offers a three-credit undergraduate course on residential mortgage origination and...
Austin-based Visio Lending, an originator of investor-focused mortgage loans, has hired Jenny Coupland as CEO. Coupland, who was also on Visio’s board of directors, replaces co-founders CEO Jeff Ball and President Matt Matza upon their recent retirements. She...
Prominent real estate broker and “Buying Beverly Hills” star Mauricio Umansky was back in the spotlight, albeit for the wrong reasons – the CEO of The Agency and co-founder of the American Real Estate Association was hit with four tax liens totaling $20,000....
Mortgage applications activity went into overdrive in the latest data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) for the week ending Jan. 10; the data included an adjustment for the New Year’s holiday. The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage loan...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of May 4-8
