Month: February 2019

After falling for two weeks, mortgage interest rates turned ever so slightly higher last week, and that apparently turned potential borrowers back on their heels. Mortgage application volume decreased 3 percent last week from the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted index. Volume was 16.5 percent lower than a year earlier.
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CHICAGO — Loop Capital Markets LLC has hired former Wells Fargo Securities public finance chief Stratford Shields, a move the firm believes will bolster its client base and financing expertise, said Loop chief executive officer James Reynolds. Shields started at the Chicago-based public finance, corporate investment banking, brokerage, and advisory firm on Thursday as a
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Ethereum 2.0 is closely approaching. The blockchain project has just launched its first pre-release for phase zero of the network’s transition to the new and improved Ethereum (ETH). Yesterday, Ethereum published a new post on its Github releasing the details of the pre-release. Ethereum 2.0 The new post explains: “[This] marks the first release in
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The Star — originally the Texas Company (Texaco) regional headquarters and now a luxury residential tower — earned ULI-Houston’s Development of Distinction Award in the for-profit category (large scale, more than 100,000 square feet). Photo courtesy of Urban Land Institute-Houston and The Star Urban Land Institute-Houston announced its 2019 Development of Distinction award winners.  And while
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House hunters signed 2.2 percent fewer contracts to buy existing homes in December, according to the National Association of Realtors. These so-called pending sales are a future indicator of closings in one to two months. The Realtors’ pending home sales index was also down a dramatic 9.8 percent compared with December 2017. This marks 12
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