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While Zillow made waves earlier this week after removing climate risk data, which was supplied by First Street Technologies, from its listings, Redfin has taken a different approach. In a post on LinkedIn, Redfin’s chief economist Daryl Fairweather wrote that her firm had made the choice to continue displaying the data “because homebuyers find climate […]

California has made significant efforts to address housing affordability through numerous new laws under Gov. Gavin Newsom. Candidates seeking to replace the term-limited Newsom, however, act as if little has been accomplished. The laws lacked swift, decisive enforcement to push the affordable goal, according to California billionaire Tom Steyer, a former presidential candidate and the

U.S. Senate Democrats sent a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) acting director Russell Vought raising concerns that any “efforts to shutter the agency” could disrupt the publication of average prime offer rates (APOR), a key benchmark in the mortgage market. The CFPB manually calculates and publishes detailed APOR tables on a weekly basis.