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Osaic has made several changes to its executive leadership team, including hiring Tom Metzger as head of Empowered Independence, the firm’s W-2 employee channel and Manish Shrivastava as chief marketing officer. Metzger joins from Citizens Financial Group, where he served as head of private wealth and helped build a national wealth management platform with approximately…

A buyer putting 20% down on that home now faces a monthly payment of $1,922, 6.7% more than twelve months earlier, before taxes and insurance. At median household income, that payment consumes 34.3% of gross earnings, up from 33.7% the prior year. Supply is no longer the constraint. Total for-sale inventory was 2.5% higher than September…

Mortgage loan production volume at three of the nation’s largest banks came in above expectations for the second quarter, which a pair of nonbank analysts believe is a positive for the segment. Processing Content JPMorgan Chase reported origination volume of $17.2 billion for the quarter, compared with $13.7 billion in the first quarter (26% higher)…

Older Americans have never had more wealth tied up in their homes—and for many, that equity could provide a vital financial cushion in retirement. Homeowners 62 and older were sitting on a record $14.92 trillion in home equity in the first quarter of 2026, according to the latest NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage Market Index. “The rebound…

Key insight: The Senate did not advance the crypto market structure bill, known as the CLARITY Act.  Forward look: The procedural event has likely stalled the bill until the next Congress.  What’s at stake: For banks, the failure of the vote means that they have another chance to ban stablecoin yield provisions in a future…

George Soros is looking to flip a Billionaires’ Row office building, dangling its potential for a residential conversion. Soros Fund Management put the 140,000-square-foot Argonaut building at the corner of Broadway and West 57th Street up for sale, The Real Deal has learned. The billionaire investor’s fund management business is eyeing a price tag of…