Saudi-Syrian Shouting Match Overshadows Iran Human Rights Report

Saudi-Syrian Shouting Match Overshadows Iran Human Rights Report

A United Nations official threatened to call in security guards to calm a committee meeting on Iran's human rights violations after delegates from Saudi
See Original Article

Ross Sees No China Deal on IP, Tech Transfer During Trump Visit

The U.S. and China will probably announce some “decent deliverables” when Donald Trump visits the country next month, but it will take longer to
See Original Article

Christie Says He Underestimated Difficulty of Post-Sandy Rebuild

About 1,400 families are still not back in their homes, Christie said Wednesday during an interview on Bloomberg TV. “Until those families are home,
See Original Article

Questions loom over Land Trust practices

It also contains a commitment for title insurance issued by Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company. Both documents state that Cavanagh was
See Original Article

Xi's Neighborhood Watch

Online lender Qudian raised $900 million earlier this month in North America's fourth-largest IPO this year, while personal finance portal 51credit.com
See Original Article

Requiem for a Banking Tradition

The banking house itself was hardly blameless. The mismanagement that crippled the house in 2009 and resulted in a criminal conviction for
See Original Article

Trump's Ex-Im Nominee Called 'Untrustworthy' by Business Group

The National Association of Manufacturers renewed its call for the Senate to reject former Representative Scott Garrett's nomination to lead the
See Original Article

Real Estate Report: Neutral Market That Leans Toward Sellers

Real Estate Report: Neutral Market That Leans Toward Sellers … Broadly speaking, real estate activity in Westport has been somewhat light in the past
See Original Article

Iceland's Election Is a Tight Race as Left-Winger Bids for Power

… and cycles to work,” the party's former chairman, Steingrimur J. Sigfusson, told Bloomberg in Reykjavik. “People see in her a different kind of leader.”.
See Original Article

EPA's Pruitt Denies He's an Ally of Polluters, Vows to Get Tough

“They don't know me,” Pruitt said, during an interview with Bloomberg News in his Washington office. “I've led a grand jury. We are going to do
See Original Article

Amazon's Stab at Allowing Brick-and-Mortar Returns Is Deemed Underwhelming

Amazon.com Inc. began letting customers return products at some Kohl's Corp. locations last week, an attempt to meld its e-commerce prowess with
See Original Article

Traders Buy Shares of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) on Weakness

Vetr upgraded International Business Machines Corporation from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $164.53 price objective for the company in
See Original Article

US Has Three Aircraft Carriers in West Pacific for First Time in a Decade

The U.S. Navy has three aircraft carriers and their assorted missile-carrying vessels deployed to the western Pacific Ocean for the first time in a decade
See Original Article

Despite Some Reservations, Barneys Is Going All-In on Data

As Vitale explained it to Fortune in August, the data is essential to winning over new customers and rewarding customers. Vitale, a high-ranking Gucci
See Original Article

FNF Group Reports Third Quarter 2017 Diluted EPS of $0.62 and Adjusted Diluted EPS of $0.71 …

“The third quarter was another strong performance for our title insurance business,” said Chairman William P. Foley, II. “We generated adjusted pre-tax
See Original Article

ANZ bank reports AU$6.4b profit in year of reshaping

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) has posted its 2016-17 financial results, reporting statutory profit of AU$6.41 billion, up 12 percent
See Original Article

Key Russia Probe Splinters as Grassley, Feinstein Set Own Paths

The Senate Judiciary Committee's bipartisan Russia probe has fractured, with Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein
See Original Article

ANZ Bank Says Revenue Growth May Slow on Competition, Regulation

“We expect the revenue growth environment for banking will continue to be … the bank to focus on its more profitable domestic banking operations.
See Original Article

Paytm's Senior VP Krishna Hegde to oversee lending

BENGALURU: Paytm has appointed its senior vice-president Krishna Hegde as head of lending as the company looks to offer financial products to
See Original Article

Lord & Taylor deal with WeWork is a good way to use 'less productive' real estate

s deal to sell Lord & Taylor's flagship New York City store to WeWork in a transaction is a good way for the company to monetize its real estate,
See Original Article

Bank lending limits not forever: APRA

Bank lending limits not forever: APRA

The head of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority says no deadline has been set to end the lending constraints it imposed on the big banks.
See Original Article

Robert Irving “Doc” Knipfer, 91

He later joined his wife, Joan's business, American Land Title Company, as the Vice-President of Finance. He retired in 1989. Doc was a member of
See Original Article

Borrowers, Lenders See Continued Stability for Commercial Real Estate Financing

Commercial real estate borrowers remain bullish on the financing climate despite some uncertainty about where financial regulation is heading and
See Original Article

Real estate notes: Drury project progresses

Druco Development Co. has landed a major permit for its Drury Hotel under construction in SoBro. The base of what will be the 21-story hotel building
See Original Article

Uber Fields Bids for Its Subprime Lending Unit's Assets

Uber Technologies Inc. is fielding bids for some assets of the subprime lending unit that the ride-hailing giant is shutting down, according to people
See Original Article

Capsilon Rolls Out New Digital Mortgage Platform and POS Portals

Mortgage technology provider Capsilon has unveiled the Capsilon Digital Mortgage Platform, an all-digital mortgage processing platform that utilizes
See Original Article

Buoyant mortgage lending fuels talk of interest rate rise next week

New figures from UK Finance, the umbrella body for finance houses, show gross mortgage lending in September rose to £21.4 billion – that's five per
See Original Article

With no water and huge loans, money lending has become curse of Tamil Nadu

A man attempts to rescue one of the parents, who set themselves and their two children ablaze over alleged harassment by a money lender, at the
See Original Article

Greater Region, VIC

Find Real Estate & Property For Sale in Mansfield – Greater Region, VIC. Search for real estate and view the latest listings of Mansfield – Greater
See Original Article

Ride Sharing and Driverless Cars Are Game-Changers for Real Estate and Cities

From left to right: Seleta Reynolds, General Manager, Los Angeles Department of Transportation; Debs Schrimmer, Transportation Policy Manager,
See Original Article

Stat Insight: Home Prices Lead in the West

The HPI from the FHFA covers single-family housing data from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The index is derived from transactions involving
See Original Article

FNFV Reports Third Quarter 2017 Results With $1.02 Billion Book Value of Portfolio Company …

FNF is a leading provider of title insurance, technology and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries. FNF is the nation's largest
See Original Article

Big banks score win with scrapping of consumer class-action lawsuit rule

President Trump and Republicans in Congress handed Wall Street banks a big victory by effectively killing off a politically popular rule that would have
See Original Article

Mortgage Coach to Integrate Platform with Tavant Digital Lending Platform for an End-To-End …

FinXperience – Retail is a suite of user experiences and companion mobile applications for loan originators within mortgage lenders and is one of the
See Original Article

Winds Of Change Are Blowing Through Banking: What You Need To Know From The ABA Annual …

The American Bankers Association's Annual Convention is always a great pulse check for the banking industry. One thing that came across loud and
See Original Article

Republicans scramble to help banks, undercut rule for consumers

The Republican-led Senate narrowly voted Tuesday to repeal a banking rule that would let consumers band together to sue their banks or credit card
See Original Article

Earnings Are Fraying Nerves Already With Amazon and Google Still to Come

With companies including Twitter Inc. and Mattel Inc. unveiling earnings Thursday and those from giants like Amazon.com Inc., Google parent
See Original Article

How Meteor Crater swallowed a fortune and strengthened a family

Even from that vantage point, it's hard to comprehend that a vast fortune disappeared into the emptiness. Yet that is precisely what happened a century
See Original Article

Analyzing INVESCO MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC (IVR) and The Competition

INVESCO MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC (NYSE: IVR) is one of 37 publicly-traded companies in the “Mortgage REITs” industry, but how does it weigh in
See Original Article

Kaspersky Says Suspected NSA Code Was Lifted From US Computer

Russian cybersecurity giant Kaspersky Lab said it uploaded secret data linked to the National Security Agency from a personal computer in the U.S.,
See Original Article

Home ownership decreasing

Home ownership decreasing

The information was produced by Gavop.com which has analyzed long term housing prices and real estate trends at the county level across the
See Original Article

ANZ watching mortgage book 'like a hawk'

ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott says the lender is watching its mortgage book “like a hawk” for signs of stress as households rack up record debt to
See Original Article

Champion Issue: Miss Fortune + Love Tap

There is a bug with Miss Fortune where she can fully fire a Love Tap shot, but cancel it if she inputs a move command at the instant before it hits.
See Original Article

DC-Area Communities Receive $65M in Financing

The four separate, fixed-rate loans total $65 million and were obtained through Freddie Mac's CME Program. Joseph Gildenhorn and Donald Brown of
See Original Article

Mackinac Financial Corporation (MFNC) Given News Impact Rating of 0.12

Headlines about Mackinac Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:MFNC) have trended somewhat positive recently, Accern Sentiment reports. … safe deposit facilities, real estate mortgage lending, commercial lending, commercial and
See Original Article

Mortgage Activity Falls to 3-1/2-Month Lows: MBA

PK) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.PK). Average interest rates on other types of home loans that the MBA tracks were anywhere from 2 basis points lower to
See Original Article

Nano flats expected to flood the Hong Kong market as first-time buyers continue to struggle to take …

“Given the supply of Starter Homes will take time to realise, buyers with a pressing need for a home may still opt for the private residential market,” said
See Original Article

Foreign banks paid £17.3bn in UK tax last year

Foreign banks contributed £17.3bn, almost half of the total figure, including a majority of payroll taxes in the sector, according to research by PwC.
See Original Article

New home sales 10-year high baffles economists

“Expectations were for a modest decline in sales as the current sales component of the NAHB's Housing Market Index slipped in September and
See Original Article

Business and Planning Analyst – Consumer Lending – 3DFH7

New Career Opportunity! M&T Bank has an opening for a Business and Planning Analyst – Consumer Lending – 3DFH7 in Buffalo, NY.
See Original Article

2K Is Hiring For A FPS Title, Is Bioshock 4 Coming?

The company is looking for someone who can be creative and can work … 2K is looking at creating a major AAA title not just a play-once action title.
See Original Article

Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene To Participate in Harvey Financial Recovery …

HOUSTON, Oct. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene (“Gary Greene”) today announced the company along
See Original Article

Meet the Man Who Made a Fortune Cashing in on the Hidden Chinese Wealth of San Gabriel Valley

A few hundred people have gathered around the Pagani Huayras, Bugatti Veyrons, and McLaren P1 GTRs arrayed in a shopping plaza in Walnut,
See Original Article

Why are existing-home sales underperforming?

Existing-home sales as measured by the National Association of Realtors are underperforming the rate supported by current market conditions,
See Original Article

Breaking: Attractive brokers sell more resi real estate

A study just confirmed what everybody already knew: that attractive residential brokers make more sales. In an industry known for blowouts and
See Original Article

How the North Bay fires will impact the region's housing market

As of today, evacuation orders have been lifted for all but a few fire zones, but thousands of people are displaced with no home to return to. KALW's
See Original Article

Uber Will Charge You More if It Takes Your Driver Longer to Arrive

If it takes your Uber driver longer to reach you than most other passengers, now you might end up getting charged. The Verge reports that Uber is
See Original Article

Declining home ownership in Vancouver suburbs and among younger residents mirror national …

… over a decade reveals how Vancouver, the country's most expensive real estate market, stands out even as it mirrors the direction of national trends.
See Original Article

OCBC's profit rises 12 per cent on lending, wealth, insurance

SINGAPORE — Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp, Southeast Asia's second-largest lender, reported higher third-quarter profit on increased revenue
See Original Article

Apple Co-Founder Is Skeptical of Tesla's Promises on Autopilot

Steve Wozniak's relationship with Tesla is complicated. The Apple co-founder is both a fan and critic, an early adopter, and a deserter. More recently
See Original Article

Why Did Bank of the Ozarks' Chief Lending Officer Resign?

Why Did Bank of the Ozarks' Chief Lending Officer Resign?

He was its chief lending officer, vice chairman of its board of directors, and president of its real estate specialties group, or RESG, which is responsible
See Original Article

Here's What Happened Among Republicans a Few Hours After Jeff Flake's Speech

But banking lobbyists argued that the rule would unleash a flood of class-action lawsuits, and that the cost of fighting those suits would be passed on
See Original Article

Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio Raises Stake in Marriott International (NASDAQ:MAR)

The firm owned 218,491 shares of the company's stock after buying an … Teachers Advisors LLC raised its holdings in Marriott International by 47.8%
See Original Article

US Retail Banking Digital Transformation Driven by Evolving Customer Expectations and Cost …

285 retail banking professionals with at least 500 employees globally were surveyed in collaboration with market research firm Frost & Sullivan,
See Original Article

Home prices soar between April-June in top ten Indian cities; Ahmedabad, Kanpur records highest …

The residential property market is on an uptick if one goes by the recently released Housing Price Index (HPI) by Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
See Original Article

Baby Boomers Are Coming For Your Co-Working Desk

A Freddie Mac study found that boomers are actually pushing millennials out of the housing market. Brown said Giralda Place was initially planned to
See Original Article

Businesses shying away from loans, UK Finance figures show

Homebuyers' offers, therefore, will increasingly fall short of the prices that home sellers are willing to accept, leading to a dearth of housing market
See Original Article

Tannenbaum Leonard M Opened Huge Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp Position

Tannenbaum Leonard M reported SC 13D/A form with the SEC for Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp. Access it here: 000114420417054132.
See Original Article

FY2017 EPS Estimates for IBERIABANK Corporation Cut by Analyst (IBKC)

Piper Jaffray Companies raised shares of IBERIABANK Corporation from a … Also, Director Ernest P. Breaux, Jr. sold 5,000 shares of the company's stock … title insurance and closing services agency (Lenders Title); IBERIA Capital
See Original Article

Mobile Lending Creates New Fraud Risks

As lenders race to make mobile applications easy to use for the next generation of borrowers, they are increasing their risks of fraud losses in new
See Original Article

Home prices pick up speed in August

… price increases began to pick up speed once more in July, according to the latest House Price Index from the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
See Original Article

WINTON GROUP Ltd Takes $277000 Position in Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (FNF)

Principal Financial Group Inc. boosted its holdings in Fidelity National … FNF, through its subsidiaries, provides title insurance, mortgage services and
See Original Article

Mortgage Coach Platform to Integrate with Tavant's AI-Powered Digital Lending Platform for an End …

FinXperience – Retail is a suite of user experiences and companion mobile applications for loan originators within mortgage lenders and is one of the
See Original Article

Should Investors Be Selling IBERIABANK (NASDAQ:IBKC) Stock Following Today's Baird …

Wells Fargo & Company Mn has 0.01% invested in IBERIABANK Corp … Lenders Title Company, an Arkansas-chartered title insurance and closing
See Original Article

Nelnet makes servicing deal with student lender

MPower said in a news release that it has recently expanded its lending activities and now serves 262 colleges in all 50 states. The company has
See Original Article

Realogy CEO announces retirement, names replacement

Realogy Holdings Corp. named Ryan Schneider (pictured first) as CEO, effective Dec. 31, 2017, in light of the retirement of Realogy's current chairman
See Original Article

Amherst Holdings boosts single-family rental portfolio in $153.4 million deal

The particulars of the deal are this: Amherst's single-family residential platform a portfolio of 1,523 single-family rental properties from an unidentified
See Original Article

Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (FNF) Holdings Cut by Stifel Financial Corp

Chevy Chase Trust Holdings Inc. now owns 7,143 shares of the financial … FNF, through its subsidiaries, provides title insurance, mortgage services
See Original Article

Marcus Scarborough: Local grocery stores provide a lesson in lending

Traditional lenders wouldn't even return our calls. Fortunately, CDFIs gave us a different reception. They believed in our model and were willing to
See Original Article

Bitcoin Dividends and Marxist Indexing

The way dividends work is, you own shares of a company, and the board of directors of the company meets, and they decide to pay a dividend, and
See Original Article

AutoGravity Partners with Global Lending Services

AutoGravity Partners with Global Lending Services

Citing the strong “alignment between car shopper and car dealer motivation,” Global Lending Services has forged a partnership with auto financing
See Original Article

Perth property market: Sweeteners on offer as developers chase buyers in soft market

Perth developers are courting buyers with hefty discounts and swanky appliances in a sign the city's once-booming property market is still in a slump.
See Original Article

FHA allowing re-inspections in areas affected by wildfires, Maria

The Federal Housing Administration is starting to allow timeline waivers for re-inspections of California properties affected by recent wildfires, and
See Original Article

Q4 2017 Earnings Estimate for Honeywell International Inc. (HON) Issued By Jefferies Group

Jefferies Group currently has a “Buy” rating and a $155.00 target price on the stock. Jefferies Group also issued estimates for Honeywell International's
See Original Article

Blackstone wants to double assets to $800B

Real estate is the company's largest business line, with $111.3 billion in assets under management. On a call last week, Blackstone's president Tony
See Original Article

Home ownership rates drop as more young Canadians opt to rent: census

Home ownership rates drop as more young Canadians opt to rent: census … For the head of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., that's really
See Original Article

Perth house prices tipped to grow by 2020

Perth's house prices are forecast to grow by 3 per cent over the next three years, according to QBE Insurance Group's latest Housing Outlook Report
See Original Article

Cormark Weighs in on Magna International, Inc.'s Q4 2017 Earnings (MGA)

Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Magna International from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $54.00 target price for the company
See Original Article

US business spending on equipment robust, new home sales surge

The signs of strong business investment on equipment in the third quarter and a pick-up in the housing market supported views the Federal Reserve
See Original Article

Self-storage industry could face head-on impact of driverless cars

But the mass-market adoption of self-driving cars, which could begin in 2030, could also benefit parts of the commercial real estate sector. Top malls in
See Original Article

D-FW at minimal risk for home price shakeout, new report says

A major mortgage insurance company has lowered the threat level for Dallas-Fort Worth's housing market. Arch Mortgage Insurance Co.
See Original Article

DFW suburb named the hottest US real estate market for 2017

It was named the hottest ZIP code for the second straight year thanks to its competitive housing market and desirable amenities. “Watauga is an inner
See Original Article

After The Election, Examining Japan ETFs

We favor sectors that have posted solid earnings but lagged the broader market, such as autos, transportation and real estate. We also see the
See Original Article

Parents create awesome 'Wheel of Fortune' costume for son in wheelchair

MELROSE PARK, Ill. (WGN) — When it comes to Halloween costumes, there's one kid from Melrose Park that's been stealing the show for years.
See Original Article

China to Tweak Property Price Methodology to Address 'New Challenges'

BEIJING — China will make changes to the methodology for calculating its housing price index as the current system has encountered “new
See Original Article

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Upgraded by Vetr Inc. to “Buy”

Vetr upgraded shares of International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM) from a hold rating to a buy rating in a research report sent to
See Original Article

Regina Allemand goes 'above and beyond' in real estate

Selling or buying a home can be trying, but Gardner Realtor agent Regina Allemand's devotion to going “above and beyond” to make it an enjoyable
See Original Article

Shocker: MBA President and CEO David Stevens announces retirement

Dave Trott, R-Michigan, read directly Stevens' HousingWire opinion piece from July on the False Claims Act. “As I said in my Annual Convention
See Original Article

Ocwen considers selling more pieces of lending business

When 2017 began, Ocwen Financial had six mortgage origination lines of business: correspondent, wholesale, and retail in both forward and reverse
See Original Article

OxyContin maker faces federal investigation over claim on efficacy

10 a.m.: Freddie Mac releases weekly mortgage rates. 10 a.m.: National Association of Realtors releases pending home sales index for September.
See Original Article

New House Sales Skyrocket in September

New House Sales Skyrocket in September

Brent Nyitray, Director of capital markets at iServe Residential Lending, greeted the news with a dose of skepticism. Writing in his daily e-newsletter,
See Original Article

raceAhead: The NAACP Calls Out American Airlines, Issa Rae's Empire Grows, Kaepernick Gets a …

On Tuesday, the NAACP issued a strongly worded travel advisory warning African Americans to consider their safety and dignity when traveling on
See Original Article

Progress is slow lifting the compliance haze on marijuana mortgages

The federal versus state conflict on legal cannabis has put marijuana businesses and their workers in a bind. Banks will not establish deposit
See Original Article

See Photos of Tech Companies' Futuristic Headquarters

The bids for Amazon's second headquarters are in. The most promising cities in contention are New York, Dallas, Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago,
See Original Article

Mel Watt: Whether GSEs Should Use Alternative Credit Scoring Models is 'Touch Decision'

Whether government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should pave the way for the use of alternative credit scoring models
See Original Article

Mortgage Applications Down Again

Mortgage applications fell for the fifth time in six weeks, according to new data … “Rates increased late last week as the market responded to news of a
See Original Article

This US City Is Now Issuing $35 Tickets for Walking While Texting

If you're in Honolulu, Hawaii and, like many people, you have a habit of crossing the street while staring at your smartphone, you might be in trouble.
See Original Article

GE Follows Up Apple Partnership With a New Deal Involving Microsoft

General Electric and Microsoft are due to announce a deeper partnership involving GE's Predix industrial Internet platform and Microsoft's Azure cloud
See Original Article

August FHFA Home Price Index Up 0.7% from July

The FHFA monthly HPI is calculated using home sales price information from mortgages sold to, or guaranteed by, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
See Original Article

Current Mortgage Rates for Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Tomorrow we get the Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) so we'll see what kind of impact the bond sell-off this past week has had
See Original Article

Stevens to Retire From MBA Leadership Role

David H. Stevens has announced that he will retire as President and Chief Executive of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) on Sept. 30, 2018.
See Original Article

Home Prices Continue Defying Gravity (and Predictions)

… sales information from purchase mortgages sold to or guaranteed by the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
See Original Article

GrubHub Is Still Very Hungry for Restaurants and Deals to Stave Off Amazon and Uber

Online food delivery company GrubHub forecast current-quarter revenue above estimates and said it would look at buying smaller rivals to reach more
See Original Article

Real estate firm's new space all about collaboration

Coldwell Banker Plaza Real Estate CEO John McKenzie stands outside the firm's new office building near the corner of Ridge Road and 37th Street
See Original Article

Amazon HQ2 Is Roiling These Mayoral Races

The application window for Amazon's second headquarters location has already closed, but the fervor surrounding the bidding war hasn't died down
See Original Article

FHFA adds preferred language question to loan application

The move is part of a broader effort by the FHFA, together with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to help limited English proficient (LEP) borrowers in the
See Original Article

This Noise-Canceling Fork Masks Slurping Sounds

Everyone knows that one guy who slurps his soup just a little too loud (or way too loud). Now's there's a solution for the problem: a noise-canceling
See Original Article

MBA's Stevens to Retire

He started his mortgage career as a loan officer in Denver in the 1980s and later joined Freddie Mac where he headed its Single-Family Business.
See Original Article

Uber Sued For Alleged Racial, Gender Discrimination

Three women engineers have sued Uber for discrimination based of their gender and race, the latest blow to the ride-services company that is
See Original Article

10 reasons why international retailers should expand to Australia

10 reasons why international retailers should expand to Australia … Here's a breakdown of what Australian consumers are buying and who they are
See Original Article

Regal Cinemas May Start Charging Less for Flops—and More For Hits

Regal Cinemas May Start Charging Less for Flops—and More For Hits

If you're one of the (very few) folks who sat through Geostorm this weekend and wondered why on earth you paid full price for the global warming flop,
See Original Article

How I Accidentally Stiffed My Poor Venezuelan Waiter

They refresh the dolartoday.com website (blocked, not very successfully, by the government), which tracks rate fluctuations. They queue at ATMs for
See Original Article

Venture Capitalists Are Betting on Robots Being Embedded In Your Body

10:40 AM ET. This article originally ran in Term Sheet, Fortune's newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Sign up here. Vijay Pande, a general partner
See Original Article

Here's to a Great Year of Health!

We'd also love to see you at our third annual FORTUNE Brainstorm Health conference, which is coming up soon, on March 19-20, in Laguna Niguel,
See Original Article

Could hurricane season add to the growing inventory crisis in the US?

For its part, Freddie Mac has suspended foreclosures and evictions in the aftermath of the devastating hurricanes. Securing skilled labor has been a
See Original Article

Hudson's Bay Sells Iconic Lord & Taylor Store to Cut Debt

As retailers try to differentiate their offerings to compete with Amazon.com amid mall closures, the deal brings back millennials to brick-and-mortar
See Original Article

A New Tool for Real Estate Development Counsel

Jason A. Stern writes: 'Blue Island' gives clear guidance to real estate development counsel that may be faced with a municipality trying to overreach
See Original Article

How Google Could Woo More Customers Away From Amazon and Microsoft With Help From Cisco

Google and Cisco are working together so that shared customers can run new business software in their own data centers or on Google's cloud, or a
See Original Article

Watch Rome Fortune's hypnotizing video for Toro y Moi collab 'Leotard'

If you read FACT on a regular basis, you'll most definitely be aware of Rome Fortune, the Atlanta MC known for turning heads with his outlandish dress
See Original Article

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi Scoop Up Carpinteria Oceanfront Estate

Few famous folk buy and sell high-end real estate as frequently and with such seemingly unchecked impetuousness as Ellen DeGeneres and Portia
See Original Article

Poor People Are Running Out of Places to Live

Freddie Mac tracked apartments that had been financed twice between 2010 and 2016, a period of low wage growth, and found that their rents had
See Original Article

Replace Your Sofa With Seats From a Boeing 747

Since 1970, United Airlines has been using the Boeing 747. Now the airline is selling off pieces of the planes—including the seats—as it prepares to
See Original Article

The Unknown Future of Housing Finance Reform

The Republican Congressman and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is an outspoken challenger of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
See Original Article

New Podcast on Seniors Housing

Episode 3 of the Freddie Mac Multifamily Podcast delves into matters related to seniors housing.
See Original Article

Time Inc. and Editorial Televisa to Launch FORTUNE en Español in Mexico

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) and Editorial Televisa will launch FORTUNE en Español, it was announced today.
See Original Article

Home buyers are main sufferer of real estate industry, neither getting home nor refund: SC

Many reputed real estate firms including Unitech, Supertech, Amrapali, Jaypee and Parsvnath have recently come under the scanner of the Supreme
See Original Article

Uber Will Start Offering a Barclays Credit Card With Airfare Rewards, Cash Back, and Netflix Credits

Uber Technologies and a unit of Barclays are teaming up to offer a rewards-enriched credit card in the United States through the ride-service
See Original Article

Russian News Agency Interfax Faces 'Unprecedented' Hacker Attack

Russian business newswire Interfax suffered a hacker attack that made part of its services unavailable to subscribers, according to a statement
See Original Article

HUD Recognizes HomeBridge Financial as Top Renovation Lender

HomeBridge Financial Services has been named the nation's leading renovation mortgage lender, according to the U.S. Department of Housing
See Original Article

Fortune Brands Reports Third Quarter Sales and EPS Growth; Narrows 2017 Annual EPS Outlook

DEERFIELD, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (NYSE: FBHS), an industry-leading home and security products company,
See Original Article

GOP businessman Brian Watson joins race for Colorado state treasurer

GOP businessman Brian Watson joins race for Colorado state treasurer

A commercial real estate investor, Watson announced his bid on Facebook earlier this month, with a video that touts his financial expertise and his ties
See Original Article

VCs are stacking up real estate deals

Money-lending estate agent Nested has raised £36 million in a round led by Global Founders Capital. The company, which books annual revenues of
See Original Article

Allen Matkins Welcomes Real Estate Finance Partner Marc Young

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Allen Matkins, a California-based full service real estate and business law firm, announced today the addition of
See Original Article

Afternoon Market Recap for October 24, 2017

Technical buying gave corn and wheat prices a lift, while the relatively … Iran issued an international tender for purchasing 4.4 million bushels of
See Original Article

Real estate briefly: Bascom venture goes big in Denver; Hendy will design Behr HQ; Coldwell …

Real estate briefly: Bascom venture goes big in Denver; Hendy will design Behr HQ; Coldwell Banker raises $130,000 for nonprofit
See Original Article

Real Estate Rumors: Pinnacle, Montecito Medical, BBX

Law360, Minneapolis (October 25, 2017, 1:26 PM EDT) — Pinnacle Group has picked up a residential building in Queens from Oregon Realty Co. for
See Original Article

British entrepreneur pays $8.75 million for Palm Beach oceanside house

Online real estate entrepreneur Alex Chesterman of London bought the Monterey Colonial-style house at 880 S. Ocean Blvd., according to the deed
See Original Article

Top of the List: Birmingham's largest commercial real estate brokers

We surveyed commercial real estate brokers in Birmingham to find out which companies are putting the most agents to work in the Magic City. We've
See Original Article

HELP WANTED

The labor shortage, Simonson said, hasn't been this severe since 2008, when the real estate construction sector was racked by recession. Another
See Original Article

GUEST COMMENTARY: Lowell High was never part of downtown revitalization

Even with this change, retail districts are further beleaguered by internet buying and international branding and franchising. Nothing comes easy to
See Original Article

Nelson Rising, real estate mogul and Irvine Co. board member, selling his La Canada Flintridge …

Nelson Rising, real estate mogul and Irvine Co. board member, selling his La Canada Flintridge estate for $8.5 million
See Original Article

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS: October 16 – 20, 2017

Oct. 17, Jeffrey P. Parsons, Personal Representative of the Adelle M. Bedrossian, a/k/a Adelle M. Parsons Bedrossian, estate, sold 48 Edgewood Drive
See Original Article

Lasting Memories

Here is your chance to enter home ownership. This 3 – 4-bedroom home is close to beach, schools, supermarket and other amenities. Plenty of off
See Original Article

Blackstone Mortgage easily covers payout in Q3

Q3 core earnings of $65M or $0.69 per share vs. $57M and $0.60 earned in Q2. Dividend is $0.62. Book value per share of $26.52 up $0.14 for the
See Original Article

Angry mortgage holders contact Garda fraud squad

Furious mortgage holders who lost valuable tracker rates due to the actions of the banks have been contacting the Garda fraud squad in a bid to have
See Original Article

Vancouver bucks trend, shifts burden of property taxes to business owners

“With the rise in residential real estate prices in Vancouver, you'd think that would be an opportunity to back off on the tax ratio and help cool the
See Original Article

John Patrick Williamson Sells 13536 Shares of Atkore International Group Inc (ATKR) Stock

Atkore International Group Inc (NASDAQ:ATKR) CEO John Patrick … UBS AG cut Atkore International Group from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating
See Original Article

Argentina boosts its housing market with loan programs

It's the latest in a series of credit and loan packages aimed at boosting the real estate market in a country where economic instability often deters
See Original Article

Should You Find a Home Inspector or Go With Your Real Estate Agent's Recommendation?

You've trusted your real estate agent's advice throughout the home-buying process, but should you also rely on her to find a home inspector, too?
See Original Article

Toyota Confirms It Will Scale Back Investment in a New Mexican Plant

Toyota said the move was not based on fears that the U.S. could withdraw from NAFTA. By Reuters. October 24, 2017. Toyota on Tuesday confirmed
See Original Article

Senate Overturns Rule That Helped Customers to Sue Banks

Senate Overturns Rule That Helped Customers to Sue Banks

The U.S. Senate moved Tuesday to overturn a rule aimed at making it easier for customers to sue banks, handing financial firms a big win in their
See Original Article

Naira Scarcity Hits Interbank Market as Overnight Lending Rises to 120%

The overnight lending had hit 148 per cent on Monday as news of a Federal High Court ex parte order instructing all Nigerian banks to forfeit all
See Original Article

Need a bigger mortgage? These 5 strategies can help

With home prices rising to new heights in much of the United States, you may want or need a bigger mortgage to buy the home you want or refinance
See Original Article

Squeal of fortune 200m odds

Fixed Odds; Hi-Lo Games; Jackpot Speelautomaten; Fire 'N Fortune; Fire 'N Fortune Mobile; Revealing Squeal or no Squeal awards the Squeal or no
See Original Article

Govt will inject 2.1L cr to strengthen public sector banks, boost lending

Government-owned banks have been hit hard by non-performing assets in the corporate sector, which Jaitley blamed on the lending rush seen
See Original Article

Entry-Level Mortgage

Search for Entry-Level Mortgage jobs near Pensacola, FL with Aerotek and find your next great opportunity today.
See Original Article

Developers worry upturn in Singapore property market may trigger more cooling measures: NUS …

SINGAPORE – Developers have grown more optimistic about the current and future state of the Singapore property market, but worry about the
See Original Article

Pence breaks tie as Senate votes to repeal banking rule

WASHINGTON — The Republican-led Senate narrowly voted Tuesday to repeal a banking rule that would let consumers band together to sue their
See Original Article

Mazda Just Made a 'Holy Grail' Breakthrough in Engine Tech

In the high-stakes, high-cost battle among global automakers to develop ever more efficient vehicles, one of the biggest breakthroughs in internal
See Original Article

Finally, some insight into how to navigate today's challenging housing market

Canada's housing market is a hot button topic. But even if the market wasn't so unpredictable it's still not easy to buy or sell something so important
See Original Article

Senate kills new rule allowing class-action lawsuits against banks after Pence casts deciding vote

The Senate voted Tuesday night to kill a controversial rule that would have allowed Americans to file class-action suits against banks instead of being
See Original Article

The tech evolution of the mortgage market

Proptech's high growth thus far has been thanks to its rigid focus on profitable sections of the housing value chain, leaving mortgage provision to the
See Original Article

Somewhat Favorable News Coverage Somewhat Unlikely to Impact Investors Title (ITIC) Share Price

Investors Title logo Press coverage about Investors Title (NASDAQ:ITIC) has been trending somewhat positive on Tuesday, Accern reports.
See Original Article

Adapting to Survive

How community banks are making changes to their ownership and operational structures to remain independent in a consolidating environment.
See Original Article

More people think renting is a better deal than buying

The data from the Freddie Mac survey and another by the National Multifamily Housing Council suggest there isn't likely to be a shift toward owning
See Original Article

How other economies control their housing market

Inconveniently, there is huge and actual demand for housing in the local property market. The rate of vacancy by the end of 2016 is 3.8 percent; if we
See Original Article

Online lending startup ZipLoan gets $3 million from Matrix

ZipLoan, an online lending platform focused on small businesses has raised $3 million in its Series A round led by Matrix Partners India. The company
See Original Article

New government's policies could hurt housing market

House prices could drop as much as 10 or 13 per cent over the next three years, it has been predicted. As more details are revealed of the coalition
See Original Article

Freddie Mac Reports Portfolio Update

Freddie Mac released its monthly volume summary for September 2017 Tuesday, showing information on Freddie Mac's mortgage-related portfolios,
See Original Article

Mel Watt: Need For Housing Finance Reform Becoming More Urgent

“[Government-sponsored enterprises] Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reached another milestone last month, completing their ninth year in
See Original Article

Blue Rock Advisors LLC Purchases 35000 Shares of Mondelez International, Inc. (MDLZ)

Blue Rock Advisors LLC Purchases 35000 Shares of Mondelez International, Inc. (MDLZ)

The firm owned 45,000 shares of the company's stock after buying an additional 35,000 shares during the period. Mondelez International comprises
See Original Article

Should Investors Be Buying Science Applications International (NYSE:SAIC) Stock Following …

Investors sentiment decreased to 0.93 in Q2 2017. Its down 0.07, from 1 in 2017Q1. It dived, as 37 investors sold Science Applications International
See Original Article

Australian housing market is 'frothy'

A property finance lawyer has said that he does not believe that the Australian housing market is in a “bubble”. Instead, he describes it as “frothy”,
See Original Article

Where the men chasing The Bachelorette Sophie Monk live

TONIGHT, Sophie Monk will meet the families of her final four suitors — and more importantly catch a glimpse into the places these men call home.
See Original Article

New diamond lender as banks abandon industry

Dfin, a London-based corporate finance firm that specialises in the diamond sector, plans to lend $250m (€212.5m) to diamond polishers, cutters and
See Original Article

NJ Casinos Post A September To Remember, With Online Gambling Lending A Helping Hand

Currently-operating Atlantic City casinos posted $235.8 million in revenue in September 2017. This compared with $218.4 million in the same month
See Original Article

Blue Apron Is Laying Off Hundreds of Workers After a Tough Few Months

Vegetables from a Blue Apron Holdings Inc. meal-kit delivery are arranged for a photograph in Tiskilwa, Ill. on June 14, 2017.
See Original Article

Billy Joel Has Made $35 Million This Year Alone

NEW YORK, NY – APRIL 14: Billy Joel In Concert – New York, New York at Madison Square Garden on April 14, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by
See Original Article

Foreign Dealmakers Must Show US Benefit Under New Senate Bill

Foreign investors planning to buy U.S. companies must show their deals are in America's “economic interest” to win approval, under legislation
See Original Article

China will crack down on irregularities in banking sector – regulator chief

BEIJING (Reuters) – China will crack down on irregularities in the banking sector and resolutely curb any rise in hidden debt, Guo Shuqing, head of
See Original Article

Pair with Tucson ties sentenced to prison in real estate scheme

A Tucson lawyer was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 7 years in prison for his role in two multi-million dollar real estate fraud schemes in San Diego and
See Original Article

Walmart Looks Set to Start Its Own Online Mall With Lord & Taylor

Representatives for Walmart and Lord & Taylor (owned by Hudson's Bay Co (HBC, +0.00%) ) each declined to comment on the report to Fortune.
See Original Article

Philip Morris International Inc (PM) Given Average Rating of “Buy” by Analysts

Philip Morris International logo Shares of Philip Morris International Inc (NYSE:PM) have been given a consensus rating of “Buy” by the fifteen ratings
See Original Article

South African Airways Chairman Ousted in Board Change

South African Airways Chairman Dudu Myeni will leave the state-owned airline in a shake up of the board before the arrival of the new chief executive
See Original Article

The Bond Between Direct Services and Advocacy

10/18/2017 The Fortune Society. Efforts to improve systems through advocacy and policy reform strategies were not clear to me until I heard a parable:.
See Original Article

PSU bank stocks may see positive re-rating

Banking stocks, which have been among the laggards in the recent past due to concerns related to bad debts, are expected to witness a re-rating on
See Original Article

Federal Prosecutors Issue Subpoenas in Manafort Laundering Probe

Federal prosecutors in New York have issued subpoenas as part of an investigation into whether former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
See Original Article

Trump Urges GOP Senators to Push Tax-Cut Plan Hours After Corker Feud

President Donald Trump encouraged GOP senators to push ahead with their tax-cut plans Tuesday, hours after feuding publicly with fellow
See Original Article

Tesla Director Jurvetson Investigated by His VC Firm for Misconduct

He was also an early backer of Hotmail, which Microsoft acquired during the dot-com boom. Technology website the Information reported the
See Original Article

To boost job creation, power-up lending, Narendra Modi government to pump in this big amount in …

Helped by balance sheets much cleaned up under Reserve Bank of India (RBI) tutelage, public sector banks (PSBs) will have their capital base
See Original Article