The home insurance marketplace has been facing a reckoning. The challenges that higher costs place on carriers, regulators, lenders and consumers has been well documented this year, and the acceleration of extreme weather events has only made things worse. The arrival of Hurricane Helene late last month threatens to exacerbate the situation in the states…
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Capital Area Planning Group’s Malcolm Ethridge, American Century Investments’ Mike Rode and Obermeyer’s Ali Flynn Phillips, join ‘Closing Bell’ to discuss their market outlooks and mega cap stocks.
Heading into Aug. 17, when the business practice changes outlined in the National Association of Realtors’ commission lawsuit settlement agreement had to be implemented, most brokers and agents were concerned about how they would disclose a seller’s offer of buyer broker compensation. What few actually considered, though, was what would happen when a buyer went…
A third of homeowners are willing to hire a “questionable” contractor to save money, a report finds. But that may leave room for error, and sometimes fraud.