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

Pending sales of US existing homes had their strongest gain in nearly two years in May, sustaining a slight rally in the beleaguered home resale market. Processing Content Contract signings rose 3.8% to 76.8 last month, according to National Association of Realtors data released Wednesday, a faster pace than all estimates in a Bloomberg survey.