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Real-estate Tech Startup Homeward Nabs $25M in Funding

Homeward, an Austin, Texas-based real estate startup, has raised $25 million in equity and debt funding. So reports Built in Austin. Read more...

State Farm, Quicken Loans Join Forces on Mortgages

State Farm and Quick Loans have announced a deal that will see the biggest home insurance provider’s agents using the biggest retail mortgage originator’s online mortgage service, Rocket Mortgage. So reports Crain’s Detroit Business. Read more...

BofA Must Face Housing Discrimination Lawsuit

A federal judge has given the go-ahead to a lawsuit against Bank of America and Safeguard Properties alleging that the companies neglected bank-owned properties in African-American and Latino neighborhoods but not in white ones. So reports the Baltimore Sun. Read more...

Perspectives on Private Flood Insurance Regs Related to NFIP Standards

Kirk A. Stephens is the Chief Compliance Officer at Breckenridge Insurance Group. Read more...

Report Update: The Housing Lobby’s APOR Solution is Fatally Flawed

The authors of "The Housing Lobby's APOR Solution for Replacing the QM 'Patch' is Fatally Flawed," have updated the report. Read more...

Almost 40% of U.S. Households Are Mortgage-free

Roughly 37% of American households no longer have a home mortgage to pay, a Zillow data analysis has found. So reports Bloomberg. Read more...

Hispanic Buyers Keeping Housing, Mortgage Markets Afloat

Surging U.S. homeownership among Hispanics in recent years has helped support the housing market. So reports The Wall Street Journal. Read more...

Nomura to Pay $25M Over Mortgage Bond Traders’ Lies

Nomura Securities International has agreed to pay back $25 million to clients to settle SEC allegations that the Nomura Holdings unit failed to supervise former traders who gave phony prices for mortgage bond securities. So reports Bloomberg. Read more...

Mortgage Rates Rise on Federal Reserve Optimism: Freddie

After three weeks of treading water, U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose in the past week, according to Freddie Mac. So reports the Associated Press. Read more...

Special Report: The Role of Housing in the Longest Economic Expansion

CoreLogic, a global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, released a special report evaluating “The Role of Housing in the Longest Economic Expansion.” Read more...

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