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Court rules against Trump, allowing Fed Governor Lisa Cook to vote on rate cuts

Bill Pulte, Federal Reserve, HWmember, Mortgage, Mortgage Fraud, Politics, Regulatory, Trump administration /

A federal appeals court on Monday evening denied a last-minute attempt by President Trump to block Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from participating in the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting this week. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit‘s decision upheld federal Judge Jia Cobb’s order last week that blocked […]

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Amazon-backed affordable housing hits Seattle milestone

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Amazon has reached a milestone of 10,000 affordable housing units funded in Seattle’s Puget Sound region, part of the $2 billion Housing Equity Fund the online retail giant launched in 2021. The announcement coincides with the opening of Connection Angle Lake — a 130-unit development from Mercy Housing built with the help of a $17

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Trump wants quarterly earnings reports to become a relic of the past

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President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his call for U.S. companies to move away from quarterly earnings reports, building upon an idea he floated during his first term. Since 1970, the nearly 3,700 publicly traded companies in the U.S. — including mortgage and real estate companies — have been required to disclose their financial results

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Compass adds top-producing agent couple in DC area

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Dave and Patricia Smith — a husband-and-wife real estate team with more than two decades of experience in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia region — have joined Compass. The pair has closed more than $500 million in career sales volume, averaging about $50 million annually. They have consistently ranked among the top 1% of

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Saving for retirement is a ‘fragile and divided’ topic

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As Social Security benefits face an increasingly uncertain future and living expenses for seniors continue to rise, a larger share of American workers and employers believe that “retirement confidence is fragile and divided.” That’s the key takeaway from the 10th annual iteration of BlackRock’s Read on Retirement survey, released last week. BlackRock — the world’s

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Mortgage rates hit a new yearly low before the Fed meets

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Mortgage rates dropped to a new low for 2025 on Monday morning, reaching 6.25%. This decline follows disappointing manufacturing data from the New York Fed, which has caused bond yields to decrease. And mortgage spreads continue to adjust positively as they have all year. The question now is whether this trend can continue throughout the

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Oscar Arellano and team join Coldwell Banker Realty in Miami

Oscar Arellano and team join Coldwell Banker Realty in Miami

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Coldwell Banker Realty has added Oscar Arellano, one of Miami-Dade’s top-producing real estate professionals, and the Oscar Arellano Team to its Coral Gables, Fla. office. Arellano joins from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices EWM Realty — bringing more than 20 years of experience and nearly $1 billion in career home sales. Arellano launched his real estate career

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Las Vegas Realtors removes incoming board member over Charlie Kirk comments

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Mark Sivek, an incoming member of the 2026 Las Vegas Realtors’ (LVR) board of directors, has been stripped of his appointment, according to LVR. The local trade group took this action in response to comments Sivek made on social media about the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. “We want to make it clear that

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What are Non-QM loans and who are they for?

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If you’ve ever been told “you don’t fit the box” even though you can comfortably afford the payment, you’ve felt the limits of traditional mortgages. Non-QM loans exist for exactly that situation. “Non-QM” stands for Non-Qualified Mortgage. It sounds technical, but the idea is simple: fully documented loans for creditworthy people whose finances don’t slot

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Lisa Cook loan docs listing ‘vacation home’ seem to undermine mortgage fraud claims

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Mortgage documents have been at the center of an effort by President Donald Trump to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook over alleged mortgage fraud, but a loan estimate from 2021, first seen and reported by Reuters on Friday, seems to undermine those allegations. The loan estimate for an Atlanta condo Cook bought in 2021 shows

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