Mortgage Rates Move Back Down Despite Stronger Data

Economic data is one of the few consistent sources of motivation for interest rates in the mortgage world and beyond. In general, stronger data tends to push rates higher and vice versa. But in today's case, that correlation didn't pan out. The first of today's two important economic reports was ADP

The House That ‘ACOTAR’ Built: Inside $4 Million Mansion Sarah J. Maas Bought After Finding Fame With Wildly Popular Fantasy Series

Author Sarah J. Maas set the literary world alight when she was announced as the latest guest on Alex Cooper's popular "Call Her Daddy" podcast—sparking frantic speculation that she is set to announce a release date for the sixth book in her wildly popular "A Court of Thorns and Roses" series, which

Westside resi team O’Connor Estates launches design-focused listing platform

​​A small Santa Monica-based real estate team is betting that good taste can help create a new business model.  O’Connor Estates, a Berkshire Hathaway franchisee, launched “The O’List,” a curated residential platform the firm says was formed to cut through the “clutter and chaos” of traditional list

House Passes Bill To Speed Up Mortgage Processes on Tribal Lands—and To Extend Leases to 99 Years

The House passed a bill to simplify the mortgage process on tribal lands, setting it up for President Donald Trump to sign into law. The House voted 384-40 to pass S. 728, which would create new, faster deadlines for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to process residential and business mortgages on triba