October 2024

Should You Be Cleaning Your Salt and Pepper Shakers? Yes, and Here’s How

Salt and pepper shakers are one of the most overlooked items you should be cleaning regularly. Grace Cary / Getty Images From the kitchen to the dinner table, salt and pepper shakers see a lot of mileage as one of the most-used kitchen items. Yet they also tend to find themselves at the bottom of the cleaning to-do list. So do we really need to clean our salt and pepper shakers? The answer is yes,...

Las Vegas Condo, Home Sales Downtick Annually in September

A new report released by Las Vegas Realtors shows that prices for local condos and townhomes have reached an all-time high in September 2024, while home prices nearly matched their previous peak. According to LVR, the median price of existing single-family homes sold in Southern Nevada through the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in September was $479,900, marking a 6.6% increase from $450,000 in September...

MBA, other stakeholders team up to address racial homeownership gap

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) on Monday announced the launch of a new initiative involving 12 other corporate stakeholders. The entities will seek to find potential solutions for closing the racial homeownership gap. The new initiative comes in the form of a group called the “CONVERGENCE Collaborative,” which is a “coordinated effort to identify and develop solutions to help close the...

Housing market recovery threatened by mortgage rate pop

Home sales and home prices have been improving for several weeks. Unfortunately, this period could be fleeting, because we had strong economic news last week. Ironically, a strong employment situation in the country drives the bond market to higher rates. After the recent lows with mortgage rates this week, the 30-year fixed rate jumped back up over 6.5%. It looks like the September refinance boomlet has...

MoxiWorks poaches two more Onit veterans for leadership roles

The Onit takeover of MoxiWorks appears to be ongoing, as the real estate technology firm has hired two more veterans from Onit to serve in leadership roles. Ben Tao was hired to be the company’s first chief marketing officer, while Jackson Mayes will join as chief of staff. The pair come to MoxiWorks from Onit with a bevy of experience in technology marketing and software-as-a-service (Saas)...

Despite challenges, dementia patients and caregivers prefer to age in place

Despite additional challenges that may come with caring for an older person afflicted with dementia, both patients and their caregivers would prefer to age in place within the home of the patient. Both parties cite a desire to preserve the patient’s independence, and to avoid both concerning stories of congregate care facilities and the guilt that could come from transferring a loved one to a...

Reverse mortgage leaders praise FHA engagement, back-end improvements

Despite 2024 being a challenging year for sales volume, the reverse mortgage industry is still encouraged by the engagement of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) on matters related to the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program, as well as attention to back-end loan issues from Ginnie Mae. This feedback came from a panel discussion of industry leaders that took place at the National Reverse...

An architect built himself a modern gem. Now, it’s for sale for the first time in 39 years

Architect Richard Holme, a protégé of famed modernist architect Richard Neutra, who also worked in the offices of Neutra, and other legendary industry names like A. Quincy Jones, and Carl Maston, left behind a solid body of work when he passed away in 2010. Among his projects is a 1979-built, architecturally distinct modern structure in the eclectic and diverse Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake...

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