Fannie Mae Has Fired Over 100 Employees, Citing Fraud
On Tues. April 8, government sponsored-enterprise Fannie Mae announced that over the past few weeks, it had fired over 100 ...
Tag: Housing Policy
DEI Under Fire: Real Estate Industry Confronts New Reality as Federal Rollbacks Hit Fair Housing
The housing industry has weathered commission lawsuits, scandals and lackluster home sales in recent years. With the Trump administration’s aggressive ...
Judge Blocks HUD’s Cancellation of Fair Housing Grants
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has seen its efforts to cancel several Fair Housing Initiatives Program ...
Mortgage Mix: Significant HUD, FHFA Policy Shifts and Terminations Affect Housing
Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s biweekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it every other Friday ...
Florida Considers Eliminating State Property Taxes
Homeowners across the U.S. are facing rising property taxes—and Florida legislators are floating proposals to not only bring down homeowners’ ...
Freddie Mac CEO Fired by Pulte as GSE Boards See Changes
Several of Freddie Mac’s top officials, including CEO Diana Reid, were fired yesterday by new FHFA Director Bill Pulte. President ...
Legislative Round-Up: Alabama Moves to Reform Buyer Rep Agreement Rules
Editor’s Note: The RISMedia series, Legislative Round-Up looks at pending and passed federal and state-level legislation that impacts real estate ...
Proposed Bill Aims to Limit Hedge Fund Ownership of Homes
One of the bills under consideration in Congress to address the affordability crisis is the Humans Over Private Equity (HOPE) ...
New HUD Secretary Confirmed by U.S. Senate
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Scott Turner, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Here’s What Moves Mortgage Rates—and Why It’s Not Always the Fed
When the Federal Reserve raises or lowers its benchmark interest rate, many people expect mortgage rates to follow suit. But ...
MLS Rules and the Zillow-ChatGPT Integration: What We Know So Far
Essentially, if you type “Zillow” into a ChatGPT query, the chat will bring up the Zillow app, then a user can use the Zillow app and its functionality—home searches, connecting with agents, etc.—as if they had opened the native Zillow app. Read more.
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