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West One has made four appointments to its mortgage division sales team. The lender said this was a sign of it investing in its intermediary relationships and supporting brokers across the UK. Joining the team as regional account manager for central London is Harry Galvin. Galvin joins from Go Finance, where he worked as a…
If you’ve been reading about Social Security in the news, you may be aware that the program’s finances aren’t in such great shape. In fact, Social Security faces a 22% benefit cut if Congress doesn’t implement changes to prevent it. Of course, staving off Social Security cuts is easier said than done. The solutions to…
A practical reform that could make a meaningful difference, she said, is providing brokers and buyers with upfront access to condo questionnaires: the documents that reveal whether a building meets agency guidelines. Currently, HOAs charge fees to provide these questionnaires, creating both a cost burden and a timing problem. “If we had access to a…
The US housing market entered July with modest gains and sharpening fault lines. National single-family home prices rose 1.4% year over year last month, according to Cotality’s Home Price Index. However, the headline figure obscures a market splitting cleanly along regional and economic lines, with local job dynamics proving a more reliable predictor of…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch will allow advisor trainees in the firm’s development program to join existing advisor teams sooner, one of a series of enhancements Merrill is making to its trainee program. According to Head of Client Service John Towey (who heads the trainee program), the four adjustments were based on feedback from trainees,…
Beware of statistics, especially from interest groups pursuing an agenda. Construction unions, for example. They’re advancing a narrative that if you want a job done safely, it has to be done by them. Unions have been saying this for decades, but it’s amplified when a high-profile story like buckled columns at the former Pfizer building…