The housing story most people are telling right now is a rate story. Rates went up, affordability compressed, volume fell, and everyone is waiting on the Fed to loosen the knot. That story is true for most of the country. It is not the whole map. I sell real estate in Summit County, Colorado, in […]

Two documents, one company, one month apart. In June, Fathom Holdings announced a deal that it called transformational. In July, it told federal regulators that its financial controls had failed and that past numbers might be wrong. Both statements are true. The space between them is exactly where a smart agent learns to read a brokerage. Fathom earned its following

Public filings show how the Ishbia family’s stake in United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) and its sports assets underpin a network of loans, according to a Bloomberg report. Bloomberg’s review of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filings shows that Justin Ishbia pledged his economic interests in his private equity funds to secure loan facilities with JPMorgan Chase