FHFA Signals to Count Crypto in U.S. Mortgage Underwriting

One of the Most Significant U.S. Mortgage Regulatory Shifts in Decades The head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency is calling on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to begin preparing for a future where cryptocurrency is treated as a qualifying asset in mortgage applications. FHFA Director and Chairman of both government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), William J. Pulte, said this week that he has directed the...

World Property Ventures to Reorganize as a Digital Investment Bank

Move to capitalize on the digital financialization of the global real estate economy Florida-based World Property Ventures (WPV) announced this week that it is undergoing a strategic reorganization into a next-generation digital investment bank, positioning itself to lead the digital transformation of the $654 trillion-dollar global property sector. Formerly structured as a PropTech incubator, World...

Dermot Buffini discusses brokerage leadership, real estate market shifts

Dermot Buffini, the CEO of Buffini & Co., joined this week’s episode of the RealTrending podcast for a conversation on the evolving challenges for real estate leaders. Speaking with host Tracey Velt at HousingWire’s The Gathering, Buffini addressed the pressures that brokers and team leaders face amid market volatility and shifting agent performance. He emphasized the importance of focusing...

Here are the three metros where homeownership is still affordable

The rapid rise in home prices and housing costs over the past five years has strained affordability in every part of the country, but a new study seeks to put a finer point on which metropolitan areas are getting hit the hardest. Realtor.com calculated the share of income a typical household spends on housing by dividing its estimated median monthly housing costs by the median household income in each...

Compare listings

Compare
en_USEnglish