The Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program is no longer a financial problem, according to commentary published Tuesday by New View Advisors about the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)’s 2025 report on the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMIF). The FHA published its fiscal 2025 Annual Report to Congress on Dec. 31, revealing that the insurance fund…
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Everybody’s got an opinion on why housing “sucks” right now. Mortgage rates are too high. Construction costs are out of control. Regulations are choking supply. And the loudest refrain of all: “It’s the rates. Rates killed housing.” That story makes for a clean headline, but it doesn’t hold up under scrutiny. If rates alone were…
ERA Hart Sargis-Breen Real Estate and ERA Insite Realty Services have merged their Connecticut and New York operations — creating a brokerage with nine offices and nearly 200 agents across both states. ERA Hart Sargis-Breen Real Estate, founded in 1979, is based in West Hartford, Conn., and operates three offices statewide. Rob Levine became owner…
The activist investors at Third Point Investors Ltd may be calling on CoStar Group to divest or shutdown its residential real estate arm, including Homes.com, but it appears that CoStar has no such intentions. “One thing we know for certain is that abandoning Homes.com now that the investment phase is tapering would be a certain…