Investor real estate purchases declined by over 20% in the first quarter, both from three months and one year prior, but still made up nearly one-third of all home sales during the period, the latest BatchData Investor Pulse Report found. Processing Content The drop comes as the U.S. government was working to, and looks like […]

Bed Bath & Beyond, the brand once known almost exclusively as the purveyor of housewares, fortified its diversification strategy into real estate and home finance with an agreement to acquire Fathom Holdings.  Processing Content The Tennessee-based company will acquire the technology-backed real estate platform in an all-stock deal, adding services including residential brokering, mortgage, title

In the wake of downsizing by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, attention to supervision and enforcement of non-bank mortgage lenders has turned to the states.   Processing Content In late April, Mark McArdle – a former top mortgage official of the CFPB – wrote a sobering Loan Think piece that scrutinized state supervision of non-bank mortgage