For the second time this year, the Federal Reserve has issued a rate cut. The central bank’s policy making Federal Open Market Committee voted to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by a 0.25% to a new range of 3.75% to 4%. All but two of the Committee’s...
Pending home sales in September were unchanged from August and were down 0.9% from one year earlier, according to the data from the National Association of Realtors. Month-over-month and year-over-year pending home sales were up in the Northeast and South but declined...
Newly built homes accounted for 26.8% of single-family homes for sale nationwide in August, according to a new data report from Redfin. This is down from 28.2% one year ago and 30.6% two years prior, and it also marked the lowest level in four years. Redfin attributed...
After four consecutive weeks of declining momentum, mortgage application activity perked up for the week ending Oct. 24, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage loan application volume,...
Another property tax relief proposal has been put forth in the Florida legislature, this time with the goal to eliminate nearly all property taxied levied across the state. Newsweek reports State Rep. Kevin Steele, a Republican, has offered HJR 201, which would exempt...
The enterprise software group PartnerOne entered into an agreement with Accenture to acquire Mortgage Cadence, a provider of cloud-based digital lending solutions. In a press statement, PartnerOne identified itself as a firm that “acquires software companies with...
