• Sumitomo Forestry buys Tri Pointe, resetting the arc of homebuilder scale,John McManus

    Sumitomo Forestry buys Tri Pointe, resetting the arc of homebuilder scale

    Within a couple of weeks of exactly this time two years ago, the lead-in to a blockbuster $4.9 billion M&A deal involving a Japan-based acquirer of a national public homebuilding enterprise practically wrote itself: “A top-five-ranked U.S. homebuilding company doesn’t happen overnight…. Except when

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  • Mortgage originators brace for rising costs as ban on abusive trigger leads nears,Flávia Furlan Nunes

    Mortgage originators brace for rising costs as ban on abusive trigger leads nears

    A ban on abusive trigger leads that’s set to take effect in early March is already driving up overall costs to acquire leads and putting pressure on mortgage originators’ business models, industry experts told HousingWire. Sources say this short-term shift is part of a broader set of trends — includ

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  • 2 killed in SC State shooting were not students, school says,Marley Bassett, Nick Neville

    2 killed in SC State shooting were not students, school says

    ORANGEBURG, S.C. (WIS) - Two men were killed in a shooting on the campus of South Carolina State University that sent the campus into an hours-long lockdown late Thursday.The school said two men were killed as a result of the shooting at the Hugine Suites student housing complex. The South Carolina

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