Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell met today at the White House with President Trump, marking their first face-to-face encounter since Trump began his second term. “At the President’s invitation, Chair Powell met with the President today at the White House...
For the first time since he took office, President Biden openly confronted the challenges facing the U.S. housing industry and offered several proposals aimed at homeownership and rental housing. A Last-Minute Acknowledgment Housing market issues were conspicuously...
One of the most prominent thought leaders in the mortgage and real estate sectors has faulted the Biden White House for a “significant leadership void” on the subject of housing. David H. Stevens, the former president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association,...
The Biden administration is supporting the conversion of vacant commercial properties into residential housing, although it declined to allocate any new funds for this endeavor. “The actions announced today build upon the initiatives in the White House Housing Supply...
The eviction of a Chinese-owned agtech company from Arkansas farmland, a Fed officer who acknowledged the central bank’s negative impact on housing and a big ball of fun on the Las Vegas Strip. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are the hits and misses...