The value of government-sponsored enterprises’ Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stems from their mortgage-market role and experts at a Bipartisan Policy Center event at times took varying stances on what it would take to preserve and protect that position amid reform. The panel’s comments arrived ahead of Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte’s ongoing […]
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In the real-estate investment market, business operators are more frequently buying and selling among themselves, according to new Batchdata research. While businesses that buy homes with the intent of flipping or renting them out might purchase from a variety of sources, over half resell those properties to other investors, a second-quarter report published by the
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Key Insight: Washington Federal Bank and Planet Home Lending are only the latest in a long list of businesses against which the CFPB has terminated its consent orders. Supporting Data: Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the CFPB has dropped dozens of enforcement actions and initiated only two. Expert quote: “It’s clear that
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