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• MBA boosts commercial/multifamily team with pair of hires

  19-02-2018 23:03
  
  The Mortgage Bankers Association recently enhanced its commercial/multifamily team with a pair of experienced hires. Sharon Walker joined the MBA in late January as the associate vice president of multifamily. Also joining the MBA is Andrew Foster, who will serve as director, commercial/multifamily.
  
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• Consistency Is Key for Market Domination

  19-02-2018 22:06
  In the following interview, Alex Iskenderian, owner/REALTOR® with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Maui Properties in St. Lahaina/Wailea, Hawaii, discusses agent development, culture and more.
  Region Served: Maui, but also licensed in CaliforniaYears in Real Estate: 6Number of Offices: 2Number of Agents: 25Favorite Time-Saving Tech Tool: The Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices franchise provides a platform called the Resource Center where we can put together our marketing material and marketing c
  
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• Economic Forecast Rosy, but Susceptible to Volatility

  19-02-2018 22:05
  Economic growth likely will not succumb to volatility, with GDP forecasted at a healthy 2.7 percent for the year, according to Fannie Mae’s Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group’s recently released Economic and Housing Outlook for February 2018. There is, however, potential for upheaval, which could have effects in housing.
  “‘Fiscal Policy and the Fed: Stimulus/Response’—our 2018 theme —will be paramount in the months ahead as the economy navigat
  
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• Survey Finds Hidden Costs of Homeownership

  19-02-2018 22:04
  (TNS)—Your day burns brightly on both ends.
  You prod your kids out of bed at daybreak, get them dressed, fed and off to school. You drive to work, endure meetings, colleagues, power lunches, memos and strategy sessions, only to return home through gridlocked traffic just as the sun sets, beg your kids to eat dinner, wash them, coax them to sleep, do the dishes and then mercifully collapse in front of the television set.
  You fret over your emergency savings account, retirement savings accou
  
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• Fed’s Powell reportedly names two senior advisers

  19-02-2018 20:12
  
  Recently confirmed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has reportedly made his first staff moves, naming monetary policy specialists Jon Faust and Antulio Bomfim to senior adviser roles. Both Faust and Bomfim have previously held roles at the central bank.
  
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