• Class Valuation adds Makena InstaPlan ahead of UAD 3.6 shift,Sarah Wolak

    Class Valuation adds Makena InstaPlan ahead of UAD 3.6 shift

    Class Valuation has partnered with Makena to provide appraisers with new mobile data-collection tools ahead of the mortgage industry’s transition to the Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) 3.6 standards later this year. The appraisal management company announced last week that appraisers working through

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  • May rent trends run sideways as multifamily supply stays strong,Richard Lawson

    May rent trends run sideways as multifamily supply stays strong

    Policymakers have been making the case that more supply is a better check on housing costs than rent stabilization. May apartment rental data backs up that narrative. Rents ticked up modestly last month, the fifth consecutive month of sequential growth. But May’s reading was the lowest for that mont

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  • Mortgage and real estate battle for the top of the funnel,Flávia Furlan Nunes

    Mortgage and real estate battle for the top of the funnel

    Like many mortgage professionals, Vipul Hapani can see the wave of industry consolidation forming on the horizon and knows it is only a matter of time before it reaches his shores. As the broker-owner of Waxhaw, North Carolina-based Vema Mortgage—the third-largest brokerage originator in the U.S. in

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