The Momentum of Female Entrepreneurs

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Women business owners and their businesses are booming. These enterprises are securing more funding, growing in number and effecting a serious change on the American economy. This week, the Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO) released their Business Outlook survey reporting that the revenue, compensation and staffing for women-owned businesses are growing. Continue reading

2016 Real Estate Trends

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The recently released Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2016 report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) suggests that established hubs like New York and Washington, D.C. are losing steam, and developing cities in quieter markets may well be on their way to becoming the next great American metropolises. Continue reading

Promoting Women to Executive Positions

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In their recent study Women in Leadership in the Real Estate and Land Use Industry, the Urban Land Institute (ULI) proposes strategies for the promotion of women to executive roles within the housing industry. The report was published by the ULI Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) which surveyed 1,234 female ULI members and focus groups comprised of women in real estate businesses. Continue reading

S&P Capital IQ Releases Scorecard for Women-Owned Businesses

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As NAWRB has covered in previous blog posts, women-owned businesses remain disadvantaged throughout the business sector. This is particularly true in regards to access to capital, as women business owners struggle to obtain loans for their businesses. There have been recent developments eradicating these difficulties for women-owned businesses, such as the power of sole source authority for the Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) Program. Recently S&P Capital IQ, a New York-based financial intelligence provider, supplied an important contribution to help female entrepreneurs.   Continue reading

Women’s Retirement

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A recent study from Financial Finesse, a California-based financial wellness company, reports that women fall short of the money they need for retirement. For the study, “Using an example of a median 45-year-old man and woman, the Think Tank looked at median incomes, deferral rates, retirement savings, life expectancies, and projected healthcare costs to determine how much each would need to save in order to replace 70 percent of their income in retirement.” Continue reading

House Passes TRID Grace Period Bill

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There is no question about it; the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule transforms the way business is done in the mortgage industry. After multiple postponements, TRID was officially implemented on October 3 with the assurance from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that there would be an informal grace period carried out at least through the end of the year for lenders attempting to comply in good faith with TRID regulations. Continue reading

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an international health campaign dedicated to increasing the awareness of the disease and fundraising for breast cancer research. Breast Cancer Awareness Month was founded in 1985 by the American Cancer Society and Imperial Chemical Industries in an effort to advocate mammography as the most effective course of action when fighting breast cancer. Continue reading

A Day Away from TRID

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The TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) rule consolidates four mortgage forms into two; the RESPA Good Faith Estimate and Initial Truth-In Lending disclosure have been combined to create the Loan Estimate form, and the RESPA HUD-1 and the Final Truth-In Lending Disclosure now comprise the Closing Disclosure. Continue reading