Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Dual licensing grows as agents seek control from pre-approval to close

A buyer signs a purchase agreement with their agent, then gets handed off to a loan officer they’ve never met. From there, the agent is mostly on the outside looking in, texting for updates, hoping the underwriter doesn’t ask for one more document, watching a closing date slip because of a delay happening somewhere they […]

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Massachusetts ballot puts lot density up for a vote of the people

Massachusetts housing advocates spent this year quietly signing up voters for a statewide ballot fight few were watching. While rent stabilization grabbed attention nationally, a separate campaign succeeded in collecting signatures to ask voters in November to cap minimum lot sizes statewide, the first time any state has put that question directly to a ballot.

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New American Funding names Stacy Chevalier as Northwest VP

New American Funding (NAF) announced on Tuesday that it has named Stacy Chevalier as Northwest regional vice president, effective Sept. 1, as the independent mortgage lender looks to expand its presence across the Pacific Northwest. Chevalier will oversee growth and sales strategy in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. She joined New American Funding in

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