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What monkeys and Valentine’s Day teach us about trust in real estate

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, many successful real estate agents across the country will be doing what they do every February: dropping off chocolates, flowers, handwritten cards, and in a few ambitious cases, cherry pies, on their clients’ doorsteps. And weirdly… it works. Not because chocolate makes people sell their house.Not because cherry […]

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From policy to practice: AI in the mortgage industry

AI isn’t the biggest risk to mortgage lending right now. Policy misunderstanding is. While lenders across the country are moving quickly to implement artificial intelligence responsibly, state legislators are moving just as quickly to regulate it. And when policy moves faster than the policymakers’ understanding, unintended consequences follow. As former Cisco CEO John Chambers recently

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Judge denies motion to halt racial equity mortgage program

A federal district court in Washington State denied a claim for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit to halt a special-purpose credit program aimed at addressing racial disparities in homeownership rates  Processing Content Nonprofit advocacy group Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism first filed suit in late 2024 against the Washington State Housing Finance Commission. Founded

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