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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Wondering if buying a house in Florida is profitable? This covers everything about the topic as well as the best places for investment. Table of Contents What Makes Florida...

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...

We scoured our archives to round up our favorite pumpkin decorating ideas. Jason Donnelly We've shared a lot of pumpkin ideas since we first published our magazine 102 years ago. Cooking, decorating, and growing pumpkins—we've covered it all. And while we've been sharing Halloween stories and pumpkin poems (see our October 1939 poem about "Jack-o'-Lantern Fever") since the early aughts, it...

The nostalgic story has us cozying up with our knitted blankets and bowls upon bowls of bolognese. Jay Wilde If you love everything autumn, from copper-colored leaves and brisk days to pumpkin spice everything, you're probably more than ready for a Strega Nona fall—and like so many on TikTok, you’ll want to incorporate all you can about this enchanting (and enchanted) story into your days for...

African milk tree is a succulent that resembles a cactus and is often grown indoors. Marty Baldwin The African milk tree (Euphorbia trigona) goes by many names, including cathedral cactus, friendship cactus, and good luck cactus. Despite having multiple names containing the word cactus, it’s not a cactus but a succulent. Because this plant needs hot temperatures, the African milk tree only grows...