BIZ BUZZ: Real estate firm happy with south side offices

Logansport's south side has been welcoming to a local real estate firm. Now the firm hopes it can live up to the neighborhood's reputation, too. MPR Realty and Insurance has been renovating its new offices at 220 Burlington Ave. for the last several months, after having moved from its office at 1013 E.
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REPOSTED DIRECTLY FROM INMAN NEWS. THIS CONTENT HAS NOT BEEN MODERATED BY WFG NATIONAL TITLE. A Tampa Realtor who allegedly tried to stop Fannie Mae from foreclosing on a property so that he could sell it himself has been charged with bankruptcy fraud and falsification of
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“The Term Funding Scheme, which has propped up mortgage lending with £100bn of funding in the last 18 months, also comes to an end this month. Combine these factors, and we're likely to see mortgage rates increase within a few months,” says Ishaan Malhi, CEO and founder of online mortgage
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For more than 20 years, Fortune has released a list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. Each year, a few law firms manage to sneak their way onto a list that includes employers like Wegmans, Cheesecake Factory, and Deloitte. With companies like that on the list, each year we wonder if the people
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It's time banks got serious about laying people off in their equities sales and trading businesses. This is the implication of newly released analysis of divisional performance in 2017 from research firm Coalition. 2017 was a bad year for equities professionals in more ways than one. Operating margins fell
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Specifically, among several provisions, the bill would clarify for homeowners and financial institutions that “the disclosed charges for any title insurance premium shall be equal to the amount charged for each individual title insurance policy, subject to any discounts as required by either state regulation
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That translates into higher mortgage payments and more money paid out over the life of the typical 30-year home loan. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages rose to 4.38 percent this week, up from 4.32 percent last week. That's the highest rate
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In a press release, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Community Development Banking said that last year, it deployed $3.04 billion in debt commitments and $1.49 billion in new equity investments. Those funds were designed “to help build strong and healthy communities by financing affordable housing,
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Wells Fargo, some of whose cardholders experienced duplicate Coinbase transactions, declined to comment, but referred Fortune to Visa for additional information. “We immediately began an investigation, and through contacts with the card networks and the card issuers and our processor, determined
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For real estate agents, accountants, dentists and other business owners and service providers this means that links on websites that are covered in cheap ads that provide little to no value to the user will now be ranked lower in newsfeeds. Websites that bombard visitors with annoying pop-ups or sign-up
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J.M. Smucker Co. is recalling several shipments of dog food after an independent investigation found traces of pentobarbital, a euthanasia drug, in samples from a range of popular brands. The company announced on Thursday that it would withdraw shipments of wet canned dog food from Gravy Train,
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According to data provided by the company, Better Mortgage claims it was the third fastest online lender to reach $1 billion in originations, trailing only Goldman Sachs' Marcus and SoFi. Better has expanded its business significantly in its two years of business. The company now operates in 14 markets,
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The head of the Justice Department's antitrust division, who is suing to block AT&T Inc.'s proposed takeover of Time Warner Inc., said he didn't discuss the proposed merger with President Donald Trump, whose criticism of the entertainment company's CNN has sparked speculation that he influenced the
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Real estate investor and banking executive Moses Marx, who owns several prominent commercial buildings in downtown New York, is one of the latest additions to the Bloomberg billionaires index. Marx's holdings include the 22-story office building at 11 Broadway, the 150,000-square-foot 160
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Frischknecht was the Bountiful branch manager of Zions Bank, 5 N. Main St., in May 2017 when he diverted money to a personal credit union account, then wired it to a title company to complete the purchase of the home in Bountiful's Old Orchard subdivision, federal attorneys said in court documents.
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North Texas home prices have been on a hot streak, rising more than 50 percent in the last five years. For owners and buyers of low and moderate priced homes, the hike and costs has been even greater. Prices for the most affordable D-FW homes have shot up by almost 80 percent, according to a new
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That lending disparities follow racial lines isn't a secret in St. Louis. Last year, the St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance partnered with the Washington, D.C.-based National Community Reinvestment Alliance to release their own findings on the lending disparities in
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior aide to Jared Kushner is leaving the White House to return to his family's real estate company. Reed Cordish is a central figure in the Kushner-led Office of American Innovation. Cordish will be replaced by Brooke Rollins, a former aide to Texas ex-Gov. Rick Perry who
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