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Brian Honea's writing and editing career spans nearly two decades across many forms of media. He served as sports editor for two suburban newspaper chains in the DFW area and has freelanced for such publications as the Yahoo! Contributor Network, Dallas Home Improvement magazine, and the Dallas Morning News. He has written four non-fiction sports books, the latest of which, The Life of Coach Chuck Curtis, was published by the TCU Press in December 2014. A lifelong Texan, Brian received his master's degree from Amberton University in Garland.

Chris Christie Wants Parties to Find Common Ground on Housing Policy

Christie responded that the way to do it is to bring all the Republicans and Democrats from Congress and put them together and ask each side what it can live with and to stay together until they come up with a list of items that both sides agree on. And as president, he said, he would support the list that the sides agree on.

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Household Formation Has Accelerated After Eight Years at Low Levels

The two primary drivers of household formation over time are demographic and economic factors, according to Nothaft. For example, household growth averaged about 2 percent annually from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s when baby boomers were at the prime household formation age, but household formation rates halved from 1990 until the mid-2000s when the population of those born in the 1970s, a much smaller birth cohort, reached their 20s.

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Investors Are Effectively No Longer Overpaying for Assets

Investors are effectively no longer overpaying for assets in the residential housing market, according to Auction.com EVP Rick Sharga in the company’s quarterly housing update on Thursday. But for those investors paying at or close to market value for their ...

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CFPB Finalizes Requirements for Reporting Mortgage Data

The HMDA dataset has not kept pace with the mortgage market’s evolution despite being the leading source of information for the market, CFPB said; for example, the HMDA data does not include adequate information about loan features such as adjustable-rate mortgages and non-amortizing loans which helped contribute to the mortgage crisis.

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Shapiro Fishman & Gache Names Dan Consuegra as a Partner

LOGS Network, an Illinois-based default management company representing the mortgage servicing and consumer credit industries, has announced that industry veteran Dan Consuegra will join Florida-based law firm Shapiro Fishman & Gache as a partner and the firm will be renamed Shapiro Fishman Consuegra & Gache.

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RedVision Launches Straight-Through Processing Solution for Title Reports

RedVision, an independent provider of nationwide title and real property research based in Parsippany, New Jersey, has announced the launch of RedVision STP (Straight-Through Processing), a solution-based approach that provides direct customer benefits by using direct system integration between RedVision and the customer to provide seamless and uniform title reports.

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