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• Community lenders call for Fannie, Freddie to stop paying dividend to Treasury

  17-02-2016 23:24
  
  With Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac preparing to report their fourth quarter and full-year financial results for 2015 later this week, several national groups of community lenders are calling on the Federal Housing Finance Agency to suspend the practice of sending dividends from Fannie and Freddie to the Department of Treasury.
  
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• Homeowners: 4 tax deductions to maximize your IRS refund

  17-02-2016 21:00
  
  With tax season well underway, don’t miss out on these four tax deductions that you could possibly be taking advantage of and put money back in your wallet. Or at least prevent you from owing money. Check to see if these apply to you.
  
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• 'Millennial leader' highlights impact of housing on 2016 election

  17-02-2016 20:42
  
  Problem solved: Millennials are disenchanted, not disengaged. These resounding words from Morgan Smith, president of the nonpartisan Roosevelt Institute chapter at the University of Denver, are written to correct society’s preconceived notions about Millennials and get to the real issues important to young voters. Because without action, people will be priced out of their own hometown.
  
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• The TRID ripples: Time to close mortgage loans continues to rise

  17-02-2016 20:15
  
  In the months since the implementation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosures rule last October, repeated evidence shows the impact of TRID. Now, a new report from Ellie Mae shows more statistical evidence on how deeply the impact of TRID is being felt, with the time to close a mortgage loan climbing again.
  
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• Dotloop announces partnership with Lone Wolf Real Estate Technologies

  17-02-2016 19:04
  
  Dotloop, a Cincinnati-based company that boasts it can simplify real estate transactions by enabling brokerages, real estate agents, and their clients to share, edit, sign and store documents digitally, announced a partnership with Lone Wolf Real Estate Technologies, a provider of residential real estate solutions and services in North America.
  
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• Fed’s final push for HARP?

  17-02-2016 18:41
  
  The Federal Housing Finance Agency's Home Affordable Refinance Program is set to expire at the end of 2016. But before it does, the agency will try to reach as many people as possible that can still benefit. There are 367,600 people still eligible, and this new social media campaign should hopefully find them.
  
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• Despite decline, industry still positive on housing starts

  17-02-2016 15:56
  
  Although privately owned housing starts in January dropped 3.8% from December, the industry is still positive on the future of the housing market. According to one housing expert, most of January’s decline can likely be attributed to two main issues.
  
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• Fed's Kashkari: Time to end 'too big to fail'

  17-02-2016 00:06
  
  The fundamental shifts in the country’s economic policy in the wake of the economic crisis were not enough to prevent another catastrophic meltdown and more needs to be done to ensure that a future economic downturn doesn’t turn into another crisis, Neel Kashkari, the newly minted President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said Tuesday.
  
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• Quicken Loans preps to face U.S. over FHA loan violations

  17-02-2016 00:01
  
  Quicken Loans is revving up to face the Department of Justice after a federal judge tossed Quicken's lawsuit against the DOJ and the Department of Housing and Urban Development in January. As Quicken Loans prepares for the exceptionally rare case of a lender stepping up to face the U.S. government, it's going to have to overcome a few obstacles, starting with where the trial will take place.
  
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