Mortgages

The Justice Department and the CFPB are increasingly relying on emails among employees that contain discriminatory comments to strengthen their hand in cases against lenders.

Instability in mortgage rate movements should continue in the weeks ahead, even with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's comments on inflation.

The questions about whether the Home Loan banks receive a public subsidy has been settled. All that remains is for lawmakers to take steps to redirect that subsidy toward public benefits rather than corporate profits.

A trio of Republican Congressmen stated they will investigate how the program got fast-tracked by the Biden Administration.

Industry veterans are wary of prospective borrowers who can't pay for agents, and of compensation guidelines clashing with government mortgage lending programs.

The head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau summarized his findings from a yearlong probe into the Appraisal Foundation. He says the "lawmaking body" is not accountable to the public or market forces.

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate for conforming loans fell, according to Freddie Mac, even as the 10-year Treasury yield rose nearly 18 basis points from the start of this week.

While some said the agency was ignorant of its own rules, one trade group praised the goals of the posting.

Regulatory reform – rather than Biden's proposed solutions – is needed to fix the inventory crisis, some say, but others applauded the president's buyer cost-cutting initiatives.

Here's how the former regulator thinks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could exit conservatorship and where he sees the residential market headed this year and next.

The title proposal is part of a broader housing cost reduction proposal being discussed in the State of the Union speech.

But those rates are still relatively high, and that is a barrier to entry for potential homebuyers, Freddie Mac said.

Many other organizations have turned to sales of this asset class in order to enhance cash flow or liquidity.

A mixed-race couple claims a "whitewashed" valuation in 2023 returned a price 39% higher than the depository-approved result a year earlier.

The latest inflation news has created concern that the Federal Reserve's pivot on short-term rates could be delayed.

Loan volumes fell for the third straight week, with depressed demand for government lending driving activity downward, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

Some legal experts say the U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared to favor national rules preempting state regulations in the Bank of America in a case regarding mortgage escrow accounts.

For the first time since mid-December, the Freddie Mac survey reports mortgage rates over 6.7%.

The company was able release credit reserves because of actual and forecasted prices that boosted net income, CEO Priscilla Almodovar said.

The government-sponsored enterprise financed 955,000 mortgages last year, down from the 1.8 million loans it backed in 2022.