• Radian sells real estate services, plans title sale to PLACE,HousingWire Automation

    Radian sells real estate services, plans title sale to PLACE

    Radian Group has completed the sale of its real estate services business and agreed to sell its title insurance business to PLACE, marking a key step in the mortgage insurer’s shift into a global multi-line specialty insurer. The Wayne, Pennsylvania-based company said last Monday that it closed the

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  • ARA expands advocacy, hires John Blount to lead lobbying,HousingWire Automation

    ARA expands advocacy, hires John Blount to lead lobbying

    The American Real Estate Association (ARA) announced Friday that John Blount will serve as the Mauricio Umansky and Jason Haber-founded trade group’s chief lobbyist.  Blount spent years as chief lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors (NAR), directing the association’s advocacy shop. He he

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  • LGI Homes is trying to remove the reasons buyers keep waiting,John McManus

    LGI Homes is trying to remove the reasons buyers keep waiting

    Winning the game of a momentum-free and uncertainty-filled new-home market is like winning at Cat’s Cradle. You can lose to the game if you don’t play hand-in-hand with your partner. In the case of a homebuilder’s way through an indefinite, sluggish stretch, winning happens when something missing re

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