An imbalance in the kind of housing getting built and rising insurance costs are impeding housing progress, according to two new reports.
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Rhode Island–based mortgage lender Embrace Home Loans has struck a deal to provide residential mortgage financing to customers of Amalgamated Bank. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. This marks the second partnership Embrace has announced in recent months. In September, the lender disclosed a deal with OceanFirst Bank, which exited the mortgage origination business,…
Cotality reported a slight increase in mortgage application fraud risk in the fourth quarter of 2025, driven largely by higher activity across the investment and multifamily lending spaces. The company’s National Mortgage Application Fraud Risk Index, released Thursday, rose to a reading of 133 in the fourth quarter, up from the prior quarter and 1.5%…
Without hesitation, Mark Woodroof remembered the date — June 26, 2012 — when Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Gary Greene formally returned to a brand it had once helped pioneer. More than a decade later, that sense of history and continuity is again shaping the brokerage’s future — as Gary Greene renews its Better…