Federal and local government agencies have added significant building costs that did not exist as recently as 15 years ago, which has had an adverse effect on many housing markets, according to a recent survey from John Burns Real Estate. ...

Rates remaining low should not trigger any bubble-and-bust dynamics in the near future, according to Fed Governor Daniel Tarullo.

The head of the Troubled Asset Relief Program recently called on the U.S. Treasury Department to reform its blight elimination program, claiming the program operates without the proper safeguards to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse. SIGTARP’s report indicated that Treasury’s 622 million dollar ...

High performance of first-lien mortgages and declining foreclosure activity spelled a healthy servicing market for the first quarter of 2016 and a decreasing need for new loss-mitigation actions, according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s newest quarterly ...

HUD announced on Thursday that is making the most significant improvements to date for its Distressed Asset Stabilization Program that include requiring purchasers of the delinquent loans to offer principal reduction to qualified borrowers. The enhancements announced Thursday also include prohibiting ...

For the last three years, the GSEs have engaged in a number of credit risk sharing transactions in order to transfer more of the risk on the loans it guarantees to private investors. Most of those transactions have been of the back-end ...

The percentage of residential real estate homes sold in March 2016 that were all-cash transactions was down to about 33 percent, which is a year-over-year decline of 2 point 4 percentage points, according to data released by CoreLogic on Thursday. The ...

Some mortgage servicers have violated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s new servicing rules by continuing to use failed technology that has harmed consumers, according to a special edition supervisory report issued by CFPB on Wednesday. The Bureau reported violations due ...

The national credit picture took an upturn in May, as mortgage and consumer credit default rates ebbed from April numbers, according to the latest S&P Dow Jones/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices. Tuesday’s indices reported that, nationally, first mortgage defaults dropped six points ...

Fannie Mae plans to market more deeply delinquent, non-performing loans (NPLs) to non-profits, smaller investors, and minority- and women-owned businesses. According to a recent announcement from Fannie Mae, the GSE plans to sell its fourth Community Impact Pool, which is a smaller ...