Colorado lawmakers are taking a new swing at Colorado’s housing affordability crisis by using state power to reshape local zoning rules. Their target? Outsized suburban residential lots mandated in many of the state’s municipalities. A new bill would require most cities to allow single-family homes on lots as small as 2,000 square feet, about a […]
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A San Francisco-based financial technology company is facing a class-action lawsuit that could further upend the burgeoning home equity investment (HEI) industry. The case, filed in September in the Superior Court of California for the County of San Francisco, alleges that Unison Agreement Corp. uses predatory “equity sharing” contracts to trap homeowners in unlicensed, usurious
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Mortgage rates moved higher on Wednesday despite only a modest increase in oil prices. The latter is currently a part of any conversation about interest rates as higher energy costs have fueled inflation expectations. Higher inflation begets higher rates, all else equal. But rates take other cues, or course. One key consideration is that of
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