Compass has completed its acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate, merging hundreds of thousands of real estate agents, and familiar brokerages, under one roof. Processing Content The deal will also combine retail lender Guaranteed Rate’s separate joint ventures with each company into one, the businesses previously confirmed. The combined industry giant will cover over 200,000 real […]
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A mostly flat December jobs report points to more of the same for housing and mortgage markets. Processing Content The U.S. added 50,000 non-farm payroll jobs last month, while the unemployment rate came in at 4.4%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The numbers edged down from 64,000 new jobs in November and a
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Insurance-in-force growth at the government-run Federal Housing Administration will continue to outpace its private counterparts going forward because of the current state of the housing market, a Keefe, Bruyette & Woods report said. Processing Content The market share (based on IIF) split between the two products has been narrowing since the third quarter of 2022.
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