DOGE’s impact on Washington, Greenland hijinks and Redfin’s under the radar layoffs. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Feb. 10-14. Hit: Getting It Done. Earlier this week, the Department of Housing...
President Trump has nominated Jonathan McKernan to become director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). McKernan stepped down from the board of directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to be considered for the CFPB directorship. McKernan...
A bill that would codify federal disparate impact standards ahead of a possible rollback by President Trump of those standards has been introduced in the New York State legislature. The Gothamist reports the bill would ensure the disparate impact standard could be...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: The other day, I had a conversation with Bart de Brujin, the co-founder of EstateX, a new real estate platform tokenization platform. EstateX promotes itself as a “revolution in the real estate industry” – while I can’t vouch for a revolution in the...
President Trump has named Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Bessent will take the leadership role from Rohit Chopra, the Biden administration’s appointee for the CFPB director who was fired on...
Massachusetts High Court Upholds Transit-Zoning Mandate for 177 Communities
