Create a multilevel container garden that’ll pop on your front porch …read more
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Make a Stair-Riser Plant Stand
Make a Stair-Riser Plant Stand
Create a multilevel container garden that’ll pop on your front porch …read more
From:: DIY this old house
MBA creates ‘task force’ to design secondary mortgage market of the future
Aiming to design the secondary mortgage market of the future, the Mortgage Bankers Association is establishing a task force with the task of doing just that. Here are the industry experts that may help reshape the future of the mortgage business. …read more
From:: Real Estate Wire
Hedge fund manager sells Connecticut estate for $13.6 million
In a town just an hour from New York City, a new record was set as an estate sold for $13.6 million. This was the price after being reduced several times since 2012 when it first entered the market. …read more
From:: Real Estate Wire
Comcast and HUD provide low-cost Internet to Miami-Dade public housing
The ConnectHome initiative was created to provide low-income families and children with high speed Internet access, and now residents of Rainbow Village, in Miami-Dade County are the first community to get service and receive free laptops. …read more
From:: Real Estate Wire
TRID grace period bill stuck in limbo
Remember the Homebuyers Assistance Act? The bill was put on the back burner after it failed to make it into 2015’s year-end spending legislation, leaving the representative’s office to look for a plan B to move it along. The only problem is, Plan B still doesn’t exist. …read more
From:: Real Estate Wire
Freddie Mac offloads $336 million in credit risk to insurers
Freddie Mac announced Friday that it offloaded more credit risk to insurers, with the new insurance policies providing credit loss protection up to a combined maximum limit of approximately $336 million of losses on single-family loans. …read more
From:: Real Estate Wire
New Detroit streetcar named QLINE for Quicken Loans
The new streetcar will travel up to 35 mph. M-1 RAIL expects it to bring activity and liveliness to the sidewalks of Detroit, and create connectivity. …read more
From:: Real Estate Wire
Credit Suisse becomes latest to settle with NCUA over credit union RMBS losses
The NCUA said that this settlement with Credit Suisse is only for the Members United and Southwest corporate credit unions, and stated that it still has litigation pending in federal court in Kansas against Credit Suisse for sales of faulty residential mortgage-backed securities to U.S. Central and other corporate credit unions. …read more
From:: Real Estate Wire
[Infographic] The new DIY home-buying consumer
The do-it-yourself mentality is making its way into the world of home shopping as more consumers take the home-buying process into their own hands. A new survey from Chase finds exactly where buyers are trying to do their own heavy lifting. …read more
From:: Real Estate Wire