Finance of America eliminates big chunk of workforce as

Finance of America posted steep losses in the second quarter and has pledged to eliminate a significant percentage of its workforce to contain the financial fallout.

As with other lenders seeing huge declines in mortgage origination volume, Finance of America’s traditional mortgage business took a hit due to tumbling refinance volumes and an increase in spreads on both non-agency and

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New American Funding eliminates hundreds of jobs

New American Funding has laid off hundreds of employees across multiple rounds of workforce reductions this year, multiple former employees told HousingWire.

The most recent layoff came on Tuesday when the California-based lender eliminated several hundred positions, including loan officers, mortgage underwriters, processors and training specialists, multiple former employees said. The firm had 4,800 employees as of July 2021, and

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Wyndham Westerdale obituary | Architecture

Wyndham Westerdale obituary | Architecture

My friend Wyndham Westerdale, who has died aged 66 from complications arising from lung cancer, was an architect with a commitment to preserving and improving buildings of merit, regardless of their age or what purpose they served.

Among the projects he worked on were the repair and conversion of Hogarth’s House, the early 18th-century home of the artist William Hogarth,

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‘We’re all responsible for Afghanistan’: confronting

‘We’re all responsible for Afghanistan’: confronting

Front page newspaper stories and torn excerpts from a damning report into war crimes allegedly committed by Australian soldiers will play a feature role in a month-long exhibition in western Sydney about the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan.

The documents form the foundation of a confronting collection of protest collage artworks by Elyas Alavi, as he struggled to process the

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How to Make Plants Protect from Pests

How to Make Plants Protect from Pests

Sometimes the plants that we care for often wither or do not develop properly. If so, it must be really sad, right? One of the causes can be from the perching of various types of plant pests such as caterpillars, insects, lice, fungi or mites. Well, in order to avoid pests in house plants, let’s see how to deal with … Read More

Tips for Choosing Interior Design Services

Tips for Choosing Interior Design Services

The interior design of a house will usually be used for a long time. Especially if the house is a new building, then for the interior of course careful planning is needed so that it fits the desired concept.

Because not everyone can combine the placement of furniture and combine the decor of the room beautifully. For that, there are … Read More