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Jerry Halbrook is president and COO of Covered Insurance

Former Black Knight exec Halbrook joins Covered Insurance

Long-time mortgage industry executive Jerry Halbrook has been named president and chief operating officer of insuretech Covered Insurance. Halbrook’s hiring is the latest sign of the convergence between the lending process and insurance, the company said. Jerry Halbrook is president and COO of Covered Insurance Property insurance costs have increased in recent years, and in […]

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Panel eyes GSEs’ guarantee as public offering talks progress

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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Who buys investor properties? Increasingly, other investors

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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