2025

An international law firm with more than 1,600 attorneys active across 32 U.S. cities and in London recently released a podcast episode entirely about the legal complexity — and overlooked details in litigation — of reverse mortgages. Troutman Pepper Locke LLP is estimated to be one of the 50 largest law firms in the U.S., and releases several podcasts, including one called “The Consumer Finance...

The entire staff of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) has reportedly been placed on leave at the behest of DOGE, the government cost-cutting arm inside the White House led by billionaire Elon Musk. This is according to reports published by Bloomberg and NPR. The move reportedly occurred on April 15, with all 13 USICH staff members being notified by its acting director that they will...

More than 1,400 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) workers were terminated from their positions on Thursday, sources told WIRED. There were around 1,700 employees in total at the CFPB. Fox Business reports that around 1,500 workers will receive RIF notices across core functions, based on an unnamed source. This move is the latest in the Trump administration‘s latest action in cleaning...

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This Trending Now story features the most-saved powder room photos uploaded to Houzz between Dec. 15, 2024, and March 15, 2025. We all know that because they’re small and tucked away, powder rooms offer the chance to play outside the rest of the home’s...

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According to recent data from CBRE, underwriting assumptions for core U.S. multifamily assets showed improvement in Q1 of 2025, while those for value-add assets saw a slight decline. Sentiment from both buyers and sellers grew more positive for both core and value-add assets, despite the Federal Reserve signaling a slower pace of interest rate cuts this year as it waits for clearer direction on policy...

The reverse mortgage education ecosystem has long struggled to push back against the tide of what the industry views as bad information about its products and business model. Nonprofit counseling agency Credit.org is aiming to offer more prospective reverse mortgage borrowers a source of information. It has created a new e-learning course that aims to demystify reverse mortgages for interested...