Stephen Miran, who took an unpaid leave of absence from his role as chairman of the Trump administration’s Council of Economic Advisers to fill a vacancy on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, has resigned his White House position. Miran has been on leave from...
A trio of financial services industry trade groups – the Mortgage Bankers Association, America’s Credit Unions and the Independent Community Bankers of America – are lobbying the Trump administration to consider three actions that they claim could lower borrowing...
The HUD Secretary on a roll, pending home sales on the rise, and Warren Buffett calls it a day. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Dec. 29-Jan. 2. Hit: An Honest Man. A big thumbs up for Housing and Urban...
The Trump administration has terminated the federal government’s lease agreement with the nonprofit National Links Trust (NLT) for three public golf courses in Washington, DC. The lease took effect in October 2020 and was designed to run 50 years, with the NLT tasked...
A Phil Hall Op-Ed: In putting together a list of predictions for what the real estate industry might experience during 2026, I am reminded of the wonderfully warped psychic Criswell, who gained fame and fortune by making bold predictions including claims that an...
Small Mortgages Fall Below 3% of Originations, Exposing Rural Lending Gap
