Time to say goodbye to rate hike possibilities in 2019?

Time to say goodbye to rate hike possibilities in 2019?

… with the December retail sales and housing starts data postponed, and the usual data collection by the BEA and Census Bureau still suspended,” he
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Shortage In Housing Market Listing Inventory Provides Selling Opportunity

Have you heard that the housing market is softening? Team Nest Builder knows buyer traffic has decreased. There are fewer purchasers in the market
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Slack Plans to Take a Page From Spotify and Forego IPO for a Direct Offering: Report

In November, Stewart Butterfield, Slack's co-founder and CEO, told Fortune that the company had “no specific timeline for an IPO,” although he added,
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Republic of Macedonia Approves Name Change In Step Toward Joining EU

Lawmakers in the Republic of Macedonia gave preliminary approval to change the country's name, signaling the government has the support needed
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Mortgage Rate Drop in Early 2019 Causes a Jump of Applications in US

According to Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, U.S. mortgage rates dropped significantly across the board in early January 2019.
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Richman Group lands $189M for massive East Harlem project

Freddie Mac has also agreed to provide the project with a credit enhancement on a future permanent financing agreement. The project will stand 19
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Standard Chartered offers flexible home financing solutions

STANDARD Chartered kick started the year with flexible home financing solutions for interested clients looking to own their own home or explore
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Berkadia Arranges IN Community Sale

In another recent deal, Berkadia arranged a $11.6 million Freddie Mac loan for a 148-uit community in Lakeland, Fla. Image courtesy of Yardi Matrix.
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CFPB's 2019 Fortune: Uncertainty

A new director who is likely to loosen the regulatory reins. A new House committee chair who favors stricter regulations.
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Bank lending failed to recover from 2008 recession, Baker Institute report finds

Bank lending in the U.S. has failed to recover since the financial crisis of 2008, according to a new study from Rice University's Baker Institute for
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Mortgage shutdown problems: If you're furloughed and face a late mortgage payment

Of course, any of us can find ourselves in impossible financial difficulties where we face a late mortgage payment. But things are worse than usual.
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Breaking even: How the divorcing Jeff and Mackenzie Bezos will split the Amazon fortune

Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. In fact, the Amazon founder is likely to be the richest man who has ever lived. And now he is about to be part
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Burke successor Pat O'Connor denies conflict involving wife's real estate sales

O'Connor bristled when asked whether it would have been “better or more pristine” if he had simply told his wife not to sell real estate in the 40th Ward
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Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc. Announces Earnings Release and Conference Call for Fourth …

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc. (NYSE: GPMT) today announced that it will release financial results for the quarter
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Jason Shapiro joins LOGS Network as chief revenue officer

LOGS Network, a national provider of title and closing services for residential and commercial real estate, recently announced it appointed Jason
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'Choose Your Own Adventure' is Suing Netflix Over 'Bandersnatch'

If you thought Netflix's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch was a lot like those Choose Your Own Adventure Books we read as kids, you're not alone.
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US Commercial vs. Residential Real Estate

With the housing market often seen as the genesis for the financial crisis, America's residential real estate markets have been closely scrutinized over
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Len Kiefer Discusses the Housing and Mortgage Markets (Podcast)

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Leonard Kiefer, deputy chief economist at Freddie Mac. His academic training focused on
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How to burn $6m in 10 days in HK's housing market

Since then, an almost 15-year bull run that made Hong Kong infamous for having the world's least affordable property market has petered out. Fallout
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Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division increases allocation to TerraCap real estate fund

Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division, Memphis, Tenn., made a follow-on commitment of $5.1 million to TerraCap Partners IV, a real estate fund
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