March 30, 2017
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Roundup
Could the post-Great Recession drop in housing demand have been driven in part by an increase in mortgage credit spreads across borrowers? In a new Joint Center working paper that uses proprietary data on the spread of mortgage rates across … Continue reading
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March 29, 2017
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
This paper, titled Economic Policy and Systemic Risk: The Un-Constitutionality of Rent Control/Rent-Stabilization Statutes; Multiple Listing Systems; and the Licensing of ‘Real Estate Websites’, discusses how Multiple Listing Systems (MLS), Real Estate Website Laws (REWL), and Rent-Control and Rent-Stabilization statutes (RC-RS) … Continue reading
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March 28, 2017
Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday proposed a rule change that would give mortgage lenders more flexibility in collecting information about the ethnicity and race of potential borrowers, potentially making it easier for lenders to comply with a key … Continue reading
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March 27, 2017
Monday’s Adjudication Roundup
A group of investors can’t revive a lawsuit accusing two companies of hiding costs from a real estate investment marketed as a way to avoid capital gains taxes, a California state appeals court ruled Thursday, ruling the claims were brought … Continue reading
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March 24, 2017
Friday’s Government Reports Roundup
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released its new guidelines for the Section 108 loan of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. The CDBG is a grant that provides financial resourcexs for large-scale real … Continue reading
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March 23, 2017
Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Roundup
Dan Green writes an article entitled, “FHA Loan With 3.5% Down vs Conventional 97 Loan With 3% Down” which analyzes the benefits and drawbacks to each of the loan types mentioned. Based on the research, the conventional 97 loan seem … Continue reading
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March 22, 2017
Wednesday’s Academic Roundup
Economic Policy and Systematic Risk: The Un-constitutionality of Rent-Control/Rent-Stabilization Statutes; Multiple Listing Systems; and the Licensing of ‘Real Estate Websites, Nwogugu Assessing Involuntary Termination Risk on Residential Mortgage Servicing Rights, Whalen Implicit Hedonic Pricing Using Mortgage Payment Information, Pace and … Continue reading
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