The CFPB has asserted broad RESPA enforcement authority in a recent decision significantly expanding the liability of PHH Corporation for accepting “kickbacks” from mortgage insurers. The CFPB upheld an Administrative… Read More »

Location, location, location – doesn’t apply only to real estate values. It also has much to do with your earnings prospects. A recent study found that children who move to… Read More »

Housing industry analysts have been trumpeting the steady decline in negative equity rates as home prices have climbed during the past two years. But despite those gains, 4 million homeowners… Read More »

Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies provoked that question with a report analyzing the continuing decline in the nation’s home ownership rate. The analysis, in the Center’s annual “State of… Read More »