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National Journal, with sponsorship from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), will convene a 2016 presidential candidate forum, “Building Opportunity: Solutions for the American Dream,” in Las Vegas just weeks before the Iowa caucuses. Held during Design and Construction Week, a gathering of over 100,000 design and construction professionals, the forum will provide candidates the opportunity to address the most pressing economic and domestic policy issues before the largest annual gathering of the housing industry in the country.

The Circuit of the Americas Observation Tower and Austin360 Amphitheater in Austin, Texas, has earned national recognition in the 2015 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel awards program (IDEAS2). In honor of this achievement, members of the project team will be presented with awards from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) during a ceremony at the structure on Friday, October 23 at 10 a.m.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a nationwide rule(link is external) that will require construction site operators to submit certain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater permit documentation to their permitting authorities using an electronic reporting tool, instead of filing paper. The new rule requires states to share these data with EPA, along with government-administered inspection and enforcement results.

In response to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) rules announced earlier yesterday, Kevin Stein, associate director at the California Reinvestment Coalition released this statement

According to the reports, there are five percent more new listings across South Carolina totaling 8,622. Pending Sales decreased three percent to 5,203, and there is five percent less inventory to choose from with 38,368 homes on the market. Prices moved higher as Median Sales Price was up seven percent to $174,460. Homes sold faster throughout September with most on the market for 99 days. Months Supply of Inventory was down almost 17 percent to six months

David H. Stevens, President and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released the following statement regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) final Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) rule

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) joined with the California Solar Energy Industries Association (CALSEIA) in praising the Bakersfield City Council for tonight’s swift passage of a resolution urging Congress to take immediate action to extend the federal solar investment tax credit (ITC)

The International Housing Association (IHA) issued a call for advancing housing affordability during its 2015 Interim Meeting this week in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The group aims to provide access to safe and decent housing to the broadest population possible. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) serves as the Secretariat of IHA

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The United States has taken comprehensive enforcement action to resolve several years of significant noncompliance by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) with its obligations under the federal Clean Water Act and the permit that governs day-to-day operations of its stormwater drainage systems, announced Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden of the Department of Justice’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha for the District of Rhode Island and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 1 Administrator H. Curtis Spalding.

Today, in reaction to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s release of a final rule regarding modifications to Regulation C, which will implement changes to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), NCRC President and CEO John Taylor made the following statement:

The American Bankers Association, through its subsidiary the Corporation for American Banking, announced today that it has saved participating member banks more than $15 million in 2015 through its endorsed mortgage lending programs. With more than 1,200 member banks taking advantage of one or more endorsed lending solutions, each active participating bank saved an average of more than $21,000

In pdf Ferguson v. Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (128 KB), borrowers sued MERS, their servicer and the trustee seeking an injunction and declaratory relief preventing the trustee from foreclosing. They alleged that Bank of New York Mellon violated the false lien statute by falsely asserting a right to foreclose. The district court granted MERS and Bank of New York Mellon’s motion to dismiss. On appeal, the borrowers argued that the MERS assignment was void because Texas law did not permit MERS to act as beneficiary of a Deed of Trust.

A large tract of forestland in the towns of Reading and Bridgewater was permanently conserved by the Meccawe Club, the Vermont Land Trust announced today. The Meccawe Club is a 100-year-old private trout fishing club. Over the years it had acquired lands to protect Meccawe Pond and provide for the club’s future

Memphis-area home sales for September decreased 9.5 percent from a year ago, with 1,424 total sales recorded in the Memphis Area Association of REALTORS® MAARdata property records database. Sales were down 4 percent from August, when there were 1,483 total sales. Average sales price from September-to-September was down 0.7 percent, at $159,420. Inventory decreased 0.5 percent, with 6,404 units listed for sale. Monthly sales volume YTD increased 7.0 percent to $1.98 billion

Overall consumer distress rates in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut are lower than those in the nation, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s latest Regional Household Debt and Credit Snapshots. The 27 different Snapshots include data about mortgages, student loans, credit cards, auto loans and delinquencies for New York City (including a separate view of each of its boroughs), as well as various metro areas in New York State, northern New Jersey and western Connecticut that make up the Federal Reserve’s Second District.

Capital Impact Partners today announced the launch of Age Strong™, an innovative social investment initiative that will lend a total of $70 million to enterprises that provide critical services and programs for struggling adults who are 50-plus. This initiative, in partnership with AARP Foundation and Calvert Foundation, aims to support enterprises and projects that create affordable homes, increase access to healthy foods, improve financial security, and offer more community-oriented models of care

The Appraisal Institute and the Land Trust Alliance today announced they will enhance cooperative efforts to promote the quality of appraisals prepared for conservation easements.

Today, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) announced that in September it welcomed 24 new regular members to its ranks, which currently numbers more than 2,200 member companies.

The South Carolina REALTORS® (SCR), in partnership with the National Association of REALTORS® is offering assistance to South Carolina’s flood victims through the REALTORS® Relief Foundation. The foundation is providing mortgage or rent relief up to $1,000 to those who qualify