Personnel File

Medeiros joins BayCoast Bank with more than 11 years of experience in the financial services industry, most recently as branch manager of … and chief compliance officer, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Massachusetts Mortgage Bankers Association (MMBA) for a two-year term.
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SENECA FALLS, New York, — Generations Bank today announced the appointment of Gerald Graziano to the Seneca Falls Development Corporation (SFDC) Board of Directors during its recent annual meeting. Gerald Graziano, who will also serve as Board Treasurer, leads the Generations Insurance
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Top NYC investment firm is seeing an Assistant to support the Co-Head of their real estate practice. Successful candidate will be approachable, organized and proactive as the role entails extensive…
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That, in turn, could be a real boon to locations such as North and Central Jersey, which have high concentrations of biopharma firms, and the corresponding real estate assets. “Many solid trends support strong growth going forward for the life sciences sector, especially in major R&D markets,” Ian
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What is Janet Yellen doing after concluding her historic four-year term as the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve? No, she's not heading to Disney World—Yellen is joining the Brookings Institution as a Distinguished Fellow in Residence with the Economic Studies program. According to the
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Although hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria drove up the U.S. mortgage delinquency rate in the fourth quarter, overall mortgage performance continued to improve in 2017, according to Black Knight's Mortgage Monitor Report. “Hurricanes Harvey and Irma significantly impacted 2017 mortgage
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is facing far more than a fine for its fake accounts scandal, in which employees at the lender's branches across the country opened over a million fraudulent checking and credit card accounts to hit their numbers. Late on Friday, the Federal Reserve decided to restrict growth at America's third-largest
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Union Bank & Trust has beefed up its commercial banking in Kansas City with the addition of an industry veteran. Tim Owens, who has 16 years of experience in the financial services industry, joined Union Bank as a vice president of commercial banking. He comes to the bank after a one-year stint at
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How the Housing Market Is Responding to the 'Era of Pets'. February 5, 2018. Dog in bed. Photo: Pexels. Recent survey data show that 60 million U.S. households have a dog, and 81 percent of respondents in a National Association of Realtors survey said they'd take their pets' needs into account when
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DALLAS, Feb. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Recovco Mortgage Management, LLC — a leading provider of residential and consumer loan fulfillment, due diligence, quality control, transaction management, and loan servicing solutions — today announced that John Guy has joined the company in the newly
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Blackacre LLP (formerly Blackacre Law Group) represents clients in a wide variety of real estate transactions, including real property acquisitions and dispositions, leases, brokerage matters, property management matters and financing. Clients include national and regional restaurants and retailers, real
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“Banks generally respond well to higher rates/inflation but I do think the WFC news is taking down the entire large cap bank tape this morning,” said RJ Grant head of trading at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in New York. Wells Fargo, which posted its biggest intraday percentage loss in six and a half years,
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Q My husband and I are finally in a position to buy our first home after many years of saving for a deposit. However, both family members and friends have told us to wait a little longer as they feel prices are set to fall slightly in 2018 due to Brexit and a change in interest rates being imminent. We are
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“In Manhattan, the co-op and condo market showed strength and despite the decline of closings in the new development pipeline of legacy sales, market-wide price trend indicators all set record highs,” said Steven James, CEO of New York City, Douglas Elliman, in a press statement that accompnaied
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Weatherford International logo Weatherford International (NYSE:WFT)'s stock had its “buy” rating reiterated by stock analysts at Seaport Global Securities in a report released on Monday. They presently have a $6.00 price objective on the oil and gas company's stock. Seaport Global Securities' price
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“Hurricanes Harvey and Irma significantly impacted 2017 mortgage performance metrics,” said Black Knight Data & Analytics Executive Vice President … “The national non-current rate, which tracks all loans 30 or more days past due or in active foreclosure, edged down slightly from 2016, even including
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Stock investors need to pause and catch their breath after the great market freakout that caused stocks to plunge last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell an ominous nearly 666 points on Friday, or 2.5 percent, capping the worst week for the market since early 2016. There were a number of
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When Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen hinted that it was “hard to tell” if the housing market was overheated, or the stock market in general, investors sold. The Fed hates bubbles. Investors look for clues that the Fed is ready to start popping. But what investors worry about more is not whether
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is reportedly slowing down its probe of the Equifax data breach, in stark contrast to other federal and state investigations. According to a Reuters report that is attributed to anonymous “people familiar with the matter,” Acting Director Mick Mulvaney has
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Anyone spending 35pc of their income on a mortgage, or who has already been refused, for good reason, by a lender that stress tests into the future, should probably be a renter. Above this income bracket, however, there's a consensus that renting is “dead money”; better to buy, put the first step on the
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