"2024" Arşivleri

Douglas Elliman continues to shake up its leadership team. In a document filed on Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the firm announced the termination of Douglas Elliman Realty CEO Scott Durkin, as first reported by The New York Times. According to the filing, Durkin was “terminated, effectively immediately.” Durkin’s dismissal came just…

On Monday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced that all approved lenders will have access to a fee-based alternative to repurchase Freddie Mac’s performing loans with defects, expanding a pilot program launched earlier this year. In addition, the FHFA announced that government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) will give 60 days of advance notice for increases to…

We track inventory and home sales very closely, so the biggest surprise this year has been the resiliency of home prices.  Given the unrelenting mortgage costs, generally weak homebuyer demand, and the year’s rising supply of unsold homes, I’ve been expecting home prices to recede a bit in the second half of this year. They…

After previously taking issue with some of the forms generated as a result of the terms of the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) nationwide commission lawsuit settlement agreement, University of Buffalo law professor Tanya Monestier is now objecting to NAR’s settlement. In a document filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City — less than…