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| FHFA Director Compares Potential Cuts to GSEs to DOGE | ||
| 5/19/2025 4:10 PM | ||
| Above, MBA’s Laura Escobar speaks with FHFA Director Bill Pulte at the Mortgage Banker Association’s Secondary and Capital Markets Conference in New York City Monday. Photo by Clarissa Garza. NEW YORK CITY—During the Mortgage Banker Association’s (MBA) Secondary and Capital Markets Conference, Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Hous...Read More | ||
| ERA Key Realty’s Team Blue Is Breaking Records in Boston | ||
| 5/19/2025 3:14 PM | ||
| Above, Lori Penney A graduate of the University of Massachusetts with a degree in international marketing, Lori Penney is a born entrepreneur, with more than 10 years of business success to her credit before she set her sights on real estate in 2008. She was also early to see the value in teaming, and in… The post Read More | ||
| PropStream to Exhibit at ‘Property Challenge Live’ in Atlanta June 6-7 | ||
| 5/19/2025 2:32 PM | ||
| PropStream, a leading real estate data and lead generation platform, has announced its sponsorship and booth presence at Terrica Lynn Smith’s Property Challenge Live, which will take place June 6–7, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. PropStream cited their support for Terrica Lynn Smith’s mission—that everybody deserves the chance to succeed in re...Read More | ||
| Buffini & Company Launches AI Bootcamp Led by Industry Icon Michael Thorne | ||
| 5/19/2025 1:40 PM | ||
| Buffini & Company has announced the launch of the Buffini AI Bootcamp with Michael Thorne: a 12-month live training program designed to help real estate professionals incorporate AI tools into their workflow without losing their personal touch. Beginning June 11, Buffini stated that this innovative training program is set to empower re...Read More | ||
| Louisiana Legislation Would Change Buyer Agreement Requirements | ||
| 5/19/2025 12:39 PM | ||
| What to do when association rules contradict the law? Alabama passed a law banning the signing of a buyer representation agreement before a home tour, which supersedes National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) rule changes since the settlement in 2024. Louisiana could be the next state to effectively repeal that buyer agreement, as a similar ...Read More | ||
| New York Fed President Says Housing Affordability ‘Number One Issue’ for Economy | ||
| 5/19/2025 12:16 PM | ||
| Above, New York Fed President John C. Williams, left, at the MBA conference. Photo by Clarissa Garza. NEW YORK CITY—Providing an overall economic outlook at the Mortgage Banker Association’s (MBA) Secondary and Capital Markets Conference, New York Fed President John C. Williams highlighted the “huge” imbalance between housing supply and demand a...Read More | ||
| Leading Economic Index Hits Near-Decade Low | ||
| 5/19/2025 11:52 AM | ||
| Pressure continues to build amidst wavering factors—trade wars and flip-flopping tariffs, inflation and a lack of change in interest rates—pushing economic data to significantly lower levels, according to recent reports. The latest Leading Economic Index (LEI) from nonprofit The Conference Board slipped 1% to 99.4, falling below the index’s medi...Read More | ||
| Broadway Star and Brokerage Leader Earns Bows for a Career of Achievements | ||
| 5/19/2025 11:29 AM | ||
| Sarah Saltzberg with her REBNY award, and performing on Broadway in “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” Lead photo courtesy of REBNY; inset photo by Joan Marcus. If it is indeed true that “All the world’s a stage,” then the author of that maxim—poet, playwright and real estate investor (true!) William Shakespeare—would have been…...Read More | ||
| Court Report: Largest Buyer Case Pushed Back; Another Woman Sues eXp | ||
| 5/19/2025 11:12 AM | ||
| Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Deep in the post-settlement era, most real estate professionals are concerned with the fallout of previously mandated policy changes. Even the Federal Reserve—not known for its timeliness—las...Read More | ||
| Fed Analysis of Commission Rates Ponders ‘Substantial’ Shifts | ||
| 5/16/2025 12:45 PM | ||
| As nearly everyone has weighed in on the commission issue, with no real consensus on exactly how recent policy changes will affect real estate agent pay, the Federal Reserve (Fed) this week put out its own analysis—concluding like so many others have, that it is too early to make any predictions about the National Association… The p...Read More | ||