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Racial Targeting Under the Heading of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Appraiserblogs

Fannie, now in federal conservatorship, bought or guaranteed subprime loans made to vulnerable borrowers in the years leading up to the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Amrock Mandatory Diversity Training An appraiser shared the following with us. There are now signs of new abuses. Under the banner “equity and inclusion,” some.

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Steve Harney, founder of Keeping Current Matters, has died

Housing Wire

He became a top-producing real estate agent in the area and in 1991 became the manager of the largest office for Prudential Long Island Realty , training agents throughout the East Coast markets. In 2007 Harney founded Keeping Current Matters to help agents understand what was happening in the run-up to the great financial crisis.

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Why home-price growth is still up 18% year over year

Housing Wire

This means all those men and women since 2012 who have been saying its housing 2008 all over again on their YouTube , Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets simply don’t have the proper training to talk about housing economics. I have documented the history of these housing price crash addicts for a decade now.

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Risk of mortgage fraud is on the rise in the current market

Housing Wire

Rising rates slowed the rate-term refinance train in the fourth quarter of last year, according to the CoreLogic report, moving the market toward purchase loans — and increased mortgage-fraud risks. CoreLogic’s most recent quarterly fraud report showed that its Application Fraud Risk Index jumped by 10.4% year over year as of April and 36.4%

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for December 2022

Lamacchia Realty

Darlene Umina has been a REALTOR® since 2007 and with Lamacchia since 2014. Since joining Lamacchia, Christina has been able to dial into training and substantially grow her real estate business. Most recently, AJ was named an Emerald Level Individual by the REALTORS® Association of Massachusetts , an impressive accomplishment!

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for April 2024

Lamacchia Realty

Click here to watch Joselin’s Bio video , or to learn more about Joselin, click here: Joselin Malkhasian Darlene Umina has been a REALTOR® since 2007 and with Lamacchia since 2014. Darlene serves the Metro-west area, and she remains one of Lamacchia Realty’s top agents.

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How JVM Lending plans to expand without any loan originators

Housing Wire

After the 2008 mortgage meltdown, JVM let go of all its loan originators and trained its employees to target the jumbo loan market in the San Francisco Bay area instead. Back in the 2007-2009 meltdown, we had loan officers with us at that time.

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