Wondering if it’s time to hire a homebuilder? Some builders work on custom homes with individual clients in collaboration with the homeowner’s architect, while others are also developers, purchasing land and creating communities of customizable homes. If you’re thinking of building a home or...

Image Companies are adapting to tighter SEC and PCAOB oversight by enhancing documentation, consistency, and transparency in financial...

Shrink The Ocean Plaza shopping mall is an iconic shopping center in Kyiv and also the first of its kind to be successfully nationalized from sanctioned Russian assets. Photo courtesy of Inzhur. Expand The Ocean Plaza shopping mall is an iconic shopping center in Kyiv and also the first of its kind to be successfully nationalized from sanctioned Russian assets. Photo courtesy of...

U.S. Buyer Contract Cancellations Also Rising in 2025 According to a recent report from Redfin, 44.4% of U.S. home-sale transactions in the first quarter of this year included concessions from sellers -- an increase from 39.3% during the same period last year and just shy of the record 45.1% seen in early 2023. This data, based on reports from Redfin buyers' agents nationwide, covers rolling three-month...

Джейсон Гуд предупреждает клиентов, что 2025 год не станет годом «бизнеса как...

Veteran mortgage executive Randell Gillespie has been named president of Kansas City-based mortgage shop LeaderOne. Gillespie joins LeaderOne following a long stint at Thrive Mortgage and Lower, which merged in early 2024. He most recently served as chief production officer at the combined company before his departure in February 2025. “This company was built for these times — with an incredibly...

A high-performing Colorado real estate team has joined one of Denver’s largest brokerages. Mile High Lifestyles, led by co-founder Jaden Hanson, has joined Your Castle Real Estate, bringing 25 residential agents to the firm. Since then, the team has doubled in size, according to Hanson. In 2024, RealTrends listed Mile High Lifestyles as the No. 10 large team in Colorado and included it among the...

As one of only a few states considering more stringent regulation of the home equity investment (HEI)/home equity contract product category, lawmakers in the state of Washington have requested an academic study to assess the impacts on state residents who may use an HEI to tap into their home equity. The Washington State Department of Financial Institutions has commissioned a formal academic study on...

An illustration of an ax falling on the CFPB headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Image created with ChatGPT 4o) Under a workforce reduction announced on April 18, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) may be left with just one employee in the Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity, along with an 80% reduction in enforcement staff and a 90% cut in supervision personnel – divisions that...

Homebuyers paid an average of $4,661 in closing costs on purchase mortgages last year, according to a new report from LodeStar Software Solutions. The company released its first-ever purchase mortgage closing cost report. The findings showed that, on average, closing costs represented 1.06% of home sale prices at the national level. The median percentage came in slightly lower at 0.88%. Closing...