President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his call for U.S. companies to move away from quarterly earnings reports, building upon an idea he floated during his first term. Since 1970, the nearly 3,700 publicly traded companies in the U.S. — including mortgage and real estate companies — have been required to disclose their financial results […]
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Dave and Patricia Smith — a husband-and-wife real estate team with more than two decades of experience in the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia region — have joined Compass. The pair has closed more than $500 million in career sales volume, averaging about $50 million annually. They have consistently ranked among the top 1% of
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As Social Security benefits face an increasingly uncertain future and living expenses for seniors continue to rise, a larger share of American workers and employers believe that “retirement confidence is fragile and divided.” That’s the key takeaway from the 10th annual iteration of BlackRock’s Read on Retirement survey, released last week. BlackRock — the world’s
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Mortgage rates dropped to a new low for 2025 on Monday morning, reaching 6.25%. This decline follows disappointing manufacturing data from the New York Fed, which has caused bond yields to decrease. And mortgage spreads continue to adjust positively as they have all year. The question now is whether this trend can continue throughout the
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Coldwell Banker Realty has added Oscar Arellano, one of Miami-Dade’s top-producing real estate professionals, and the Oscar Arellano Team to its Coral Gables, Fla. office. Arellano joins from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices EWM Realty — bringing more than 20 years of experience and nearly $1 billion in career home sales. Arellano launched his real estate career
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Mark Sivek, an incoming member of the 2026 Las Vegas Realtors’ (LVR) board of directors, has been stripped of his appointment, according to LVR. The local trade group took this action in response to comments Sivek made on social media about the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. “We want to make it clear that
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Mortgage rates have done almost nothing but move lower over the past 4 months. The first Fridays in August and September account for about half of the total drop thanks to weaker results in the jobs report. Since the September 5th jobs report, rates have held a sideways-to-slightly lower range that’s resulted in several additional
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Allowing President Donald Trump to remove independent agency members undermines the legal basis for the independence of the Federal Reserve, lawyers for the Federal Trade Commission’s sole remaining Democrat told the US Supreme Court Monday. Attorneys for FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter made that argument in a filing that seeks to allow her to remain in her
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U.S. property owners saw home equity pull back in the second quarter as housing cost growth moderated, but while accrued amounts still sit near recent highs, the rise in underwater loans is raising concerns. Homeowners lost an average of approximately $9,200 in equity on a year-over-year basis between April and June, according to the report
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Property insurance costs have gotten so high in Miami, that more than one-in-every-five homes do not have coverage, a study from Valuepenguin found. Nationwide, in the nation’s 50 largest metro areas, homeowners spend an average of 7% of their expenses on property insurance. But in Miami, 13.1% of monthly homeownership costs go toward coverage, followed
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