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Opinion: The risk in cutting FHA insurance premiums

Housing Wire

There has been a flurry of recent articles prognosticating a decrease to Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insurance premiums. At least 137,000 of those borrowers have FHA-insured loans. FHA’s Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund) is there to be the primary buffer against these inevitable shifts in housing and the economy.

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Blend is now worth $4.6B. Now what?

Housing Wire

Shares closed trading at $20.90, giving Blend a valuation of around $4.6 The IPO gives the cloud-based software company the ammunition to grow market share , develop new products and dive deeper into various sectors within fintech, including consumer banking and auto. “So, the roadshow was very, very well received.”

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Opinion: What the ICE-Black Knight merger means

Housing Wire

Real estate still relies on a “system” unable to integrate production across the silos of media, brokerage, lending, insurance and trading. Technology hasn’t been the barrier since 1998 when Equifax, and later other firms, developed systems to secure complex, multi-party transactions over the Internet.

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Blend reaches unicorn status with $75 million Series F raise

Housing Wire

This article was written for FinLedger, HW Media’s new fintech-focused news brand designed specifically for financial services professionals in banking, insurance and real estate. Blend announced Wednesday it has raised a $75 million Series F round at a valuation of nearly $1.7 Stay tuned for updates.

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The Proposed NYC "Pied-A-Terre Tax" Looks Catastrophic to NYC Real Estate

Miller Samuel

The New York state political zeitgeist was recently and suddenly tilted against luxury development in New York City. If this latest turn of events plays out as written, we'll be able to look back at this era as a milestone where the supertanker began to turn in the wrong direction for the new development multi-family industry.

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Appraisers: How to Spend Less Time on Email

Appraisal Today

And rates reached a low around 1945 before hitting new lows in 2012. And rates reached a low around 1945 before hitting new lows in 2012. The data illustrating the turn are based on fresh methodology developed by the American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center. But the best records only go back to the early 1970s.