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Existing-home sales decline, marking worst April since 2009

U.S. sales of previously owned homes unexpectedly dropped in April to the slowest pace in seven months, restrained by ongoing affordability constraints and highlighting a lackluster start to the key Spring selling season. Contract closings decreased 0.5% to an annualized rate of 4 million, according to National Association of Realtors data released Thursday. That fell […]

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Non QM reaps benefits from policy, market discipline: execs

Frin left to right: Moderator Devin Norales, and panelists Max Slyusarchuk, Jeremy Schneider, Peter Simon and Rudy Orman address the audience at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s Secondary and Capital Markets Conference in New York on May 19, 2025. Politics, marketing and organic growth within the borrowing public are providing momentum to non-qualified mortgage businesses, leading

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State Farm’s added California rate hike request gets pushback

State Farm is going back to California’s regulator for a higher homeowners rate increase. One week after State Farm General, the California division of the State Farm parent company, won approval from California insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara for a 17% emergency rate increase, effective June 1, it amended its previous increase request. State Farm General

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