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Another lender settles redlining accusations with DOJ

Housing Wire

The agreement with Lakeland announced today represents the Justice Department’s continued commitment to addressing modern-day redlining, and to ensuring that all Americans have equal opportunity to obtain credit, no matter their race or national origin.”. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.

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Rocket Mortgage’s Rachel Robinson to speak at HW Annual

Housing Wire

As the housing economy becomes increasingly digital, appraisal modernization may hold the key to not only providing a better experience for borrowers and lenders but also reducing potential appraisal bias. Robinson joined Rocket Mortgage in 2004 as a mortgage banker before transitioning into leading an internal process improvement team.

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Appraisal Institute Counters Flawed Appraiser Bias Narrative

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on non-lender appraisals, forms to reports modernization, AMCs, earthquake risk, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. == == Rare Coastal Contemporary Manchester, MA, for $9M Excerpts: 5 bedroom, 4.5 Acres, Built in 2004 Cape Cod style, it is not.

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Lamacchia Realty’s Chelmsford Location is Officially Open for Business

Lamacchia Realty

You can see the original bones of the building in the exposed beams and stunning fireplaces combined with modern touches like the stunning client waiting area and a glorious open loft space that overlooks work spaces below. Upon entering the building, you will see no detail was overlooked and the very best finished carpentry was done.

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Conservation Easement in Ohio: A Guide to Protecting Our Treasured Land

The Robert Weiler Company

The importance of a fully modern open space preservation vehicle – a conservation easement in Ohio – cannot be better summarized than by our 26th President. A modern-day conservation easement example is the Big Darby Watershed , located in Franklin County, Ohio. agriculture, forestry, or water quality protection. Restricted.

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Appraisers and Property Data Collectors

Appraisal Today

NOTE: Please scroll down to read the other topics in this long blog post on Liability, Bias, reviewers with little experience, GSE modernization, unusual homes, mortgage origination stats, etc. acre lot A spectacular midcentury modern home, cantilevered 16 feet in the air, recently hit the market for $3 million in Oakland, CA.

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HOUSING ‘TRIFECT’ PUTTING SQUEEZE ON BUYERS

Will Springer Realtor

Some developers are delivering smaller homes in the form of four- and six-plex townhomes on a parcel of land that once featured a single-family house. After peaking in 2004 at 69%, this country’s homeownership rate has slipped to 66%. Bellevue has an average hourly wage for developers of $74.85. Ah, yes, the pandemic.

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