Major lenders reject homes with spray foam insulation

Getty Images Spray foam insulation is applied with a spray gun and expands to fill a given area, setting to form an insulation layer Homeowners are struggling to sell or remortgage as some major lenders are rejecting properties with spray foam insulation, the BBC has found. A quarter of the UK’s biggest mortgage providers will not lend against homes with spray foam in the roof, our research suggests. It is

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Homebuilder deal activity is surging, fueled by major Japanese buyers

Exceptionally strong housing demand in the U.S. has large homebuilders in the driver’s seat and smaller builders ripe for takeover. The buyers are both domestic and Japanese. M&A activity in the single-family homebuilder space is having a record year in terms of dollar volume, and close to a record in the number of deals, according to Margaret Whelan, founder of Whelan Advisory and one of the biggest investment bankers in

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Major Trump Media shareholder sells nearly entire stake By Reuters

(Reuters) – Trump Media & Technology Group’s key shareholder, ARC Global Investments, has unloaded nearly all its stake in the media company, it said in a regulatory filing on Thursday. ARC and its manager Patrick Orlando now hold about 0.01% stake, down from more than 5% or over 11 million shares in September. Orlando was the former CEO of the blank-check company Digital World Acquisition (NASDAQ:) that took Trump Media

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