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02.06.26 - 15:57
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Trump Taps Housing Regulator Bill Pulte As Acting Director Of National Intelligence (ZeroHedge)
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Trump Taps Housing Regulator Bill Pulte As Acting Director Of National Intelligence
President Trump said Tuesday that he is appointing Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to serve as acting director of national intelligence after Tulsi Gabbard leaves the post.
Gabbard announced her resignation on May 22, citing her husband Abraham Williams' recent diagnosis with a rare form of bone cancer. Her resignation is effective June 30, meaning Pulte's appointment would mark a change from Trump's earlier statement that Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas would serve as acting intelligence chief after Gabbard's departure.
Pulte is expected to continue leading the FHFA while serving as chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage companies that play a central role in the U.S. housing finance system. The arrangement would place a close Trump ally simultaneously near the center ...
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01.06.26 - 16:33
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Inside The Major Bill Poised To Reshape The US Housing Market (ZeroHedge)
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Inside The Major Bill Poised To Reshape The US Housing Market
Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times,
The United States may be on track to implement the first comprehensive housing legislation in decades.
For the past several years, housing affordability has been a significant subject across the country, with many young people struggling to achieve the dream of homeownership.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have tried to reverse the trend by advancing the 21st Century Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act of 2025.
Here is a look inside the sweeping housing package and the path to passage.
Inside the Act
Although the current administration has examined strategies to expand access to the housing market, the bipartisan legislative initiative aims to bolster supply for middle-class families.
The bill's main provision is a limit on institutional investors' purchases of single-family homes.
Both chambers tweaked the proposal.
The Senate approved language that ...
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28.05.26 - 19:09
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US New Home Sales Tumbled In April As Prices Soared (ZeroHedge)
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US New Home Sales Tumbled In April As Prices Soared
With Case-Shiller reporting existing home price declines in half of America's largest cities, and after two straight months of rip-roaring demand, NAR reports that New Home Sales in April tumbled 6.2% MoM (almost twice as bad as the 3.2% MoM decline expected). March's 7.4% MoM spike was revised down bigly to just +3.4%, all of which left new home sales down
Source: Bloomberg
Overall, new home sales have really gone nowhere for four years...
It seems lower mortgage rates did nothing to help new home sales...
Finally, while existing home prices are lower, median new home price rose 2.2% y/y to $422,500; average selling price at $508,800.
This was the biggest MoM jump in median new home prices since 2019...
Not great for affordability.
Tyler Durden
Thu, 05/28/2026 - 10:07...
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28.05.26 - 18:01
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U.S. New Home Sales Pull Back Sharply In April (AFX)
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WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - After reporting a sharp increase in new home sales in the U.S. in the previous month, the Commerce Department released a report on Thursday showing new home sales pulled bac......
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