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Detroit-based attorney Neil Sherman has been named one of DBusiness Magazine's 30 in Their Thirties for 2014. Sherman, 38, is the VP and managing attorney for default services firm Schneiderman & Sherman, a position he has held since 2008. Sherman also serves as president of Best Homes Title Agency, a company he created with his law partner, Peter Schneiderman, in 2008 to service the real estate and mortgage banking needs of its legal clients.

Earlier this week, real estate developer Herb Strather withdrew his winning bid of slightly more than $3.1 million for a bundle of more than 6,000 blighted properties in Detroit, Wayne County officials announced.

Despite growing economic confidence, Americans' housing sentiment remained mixed in October, according to survey findings from Fannie Mae.

The Hunoval Law Firm, PLLC, a default and settlement services firm that serves North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, recently announced it has been accepted for membership in USFN - America's Mortgage Banking Attorneys.

South Carolina-based law firm The Finkel Firm LLC, which practices in real estate, default services, bankruptcy, and many other areas, has announced the hiring of Samuel C. Waters as Of Counsel.

U.S. employers added 214,000 jobs last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday morning. Economists had expected payrolls would increase by 240,000, a slight decline from September's preliminary estimate of 248,000 new jobs added.

Hosted by Safeguard Properties in Washington, D.C., this year's conference featured a host of policy experts offering insights on what's happening inside the beltway,

Homelessness in the United States is a tragic national epidemic. More tragic still is the fact that tens of thousands military veterans, who fought bravely to ensure that the freedoms that the American people enjoy are never taken away, go to sleep every night without a roof over their heads. Five Star President and CEO Ed Delgado was a part of the invitation-only crowd Wednesday night in Washington, D.C. at the National Alliance to End Homelessness Annual Awards Ceremony. This year’s event, Communities to Watch: Ending Veteran Homelessness, recognized communities that have decreased veteran homelessness by 50 percent or more in the past three years.

International Document Services (IDS), a Salt Lake City, Utah-based mortgage document preparation vendor, has announced the formation of an internal team with the sole function of developing and maintaining integrations between idsDoc, the IDS flagship document preparation system, and the company's third-party vendors.

Institutional investor sales comprised 4.3 percent of all single-family residential home and condo sales in the third quarter of 2014, down from 5 percent in the second quarter and from 5.3 percent in Q3 2013, according to RealtyTrac's Q3 2014 Institutional Investor and Cash Sales Report released on Thursday.