Figure gets $200M equity investment from Sixth Street through JV

Technology platform Figure, which powers a liquid, blockchain-based marketplace for financial products, and global investment firm Sixth Street today announced the formation of a new joint venture vehicle in which Sixth Street’s asset-based finance platform has committed to invest $200M of equity. P
Read MoreBarry Habib shares 2025 mortgage forecast at Housing Economic Summit

Barry Habib’s highly anticipated 2025 housing market forecast premiered during HousingWire‘s Housing Economic Summit on Wednesday in Dallas. Habib, the CEO of MBS Highway, kicked off his by presentation by referencing his 2024 forecast, telling the crowd of 250-plus that he hit the mark for home pri
Read MoreTrump memo calls for escalation of mass layoffs at federal agencies

President Donald Trump ordered U.S. government agencies to develop plans for eliminating jobs in an escalation of the mass layoffs that have roiled the federal workforce in the first month of the new administration. In a memo circulated on Wednesday, Trump laid out a two-phase requirement for agenci
Read MoreHow child care costs and commutes will impact brokerage economics in 2025

After a year that saw the lowest level of existing-home sales since 1995 in a country with a population that has grown by 75 million since then, real estate brokerages are rightly concerned about what the housing market has in store for their already compressed margins in 2025. Economists Jessica La
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