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Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, delivered a public address on Tuesday on the committee’s plan to offer what he terms a bold and better alternative to the Dodd-Frank Act. Hensarling said the controversial Wall Street reform ...

Last week, Greg Rand, CEO of OwnAmerica, spoke in a webinar on the ways in which FORCE agents can leverage their unique skillset to take advantage of the massive, uncontested Single-Family Rental marketspace.

The year 2012 also marked the beginning of a four-year period in which the GSEs’ expenses increased by a combined 1 point 1 billion dollars. A white paper released this week by the Office of Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, ...

U.S. Senator David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana, is calling out the Federal Reserve for what he perceives as a lack of transparency and accountability on the part of the central bank upon learning that Fed governor Lael Brainard made donations to ...

When an HOA forecloses on a property for unpaid association fees, the servicer faces significant risk of increased loss and even of losing its investor’s stake in the property.. The report found that there are 350 thousand HOAs in the ...

The homeownership rate fell to nearly a five-decade low in the second quarter of 2015, pushing the single-family rental market in America to new heights. The greater demand for single-family rental housing has resulted in an increase in the price of ...

Most of the news regarding housing fundamentals has been positive in the last two years or so. But mortgage delinquencies rose month-over-month in January for the first time since the housing recovery began, according to data reported by Black Knight Financial Services on Monday. ...

The Five Star Institute FORCE recently hosted a webinar for the West region as part of a bi-monthly webinar series allowing FORCE members to chat about what’s going on in their particular market.

Freddie Mac’s Insight & Outlook report for February 2016, released Monday, cited the nearly 655 billion dollars in outstanding conventional 30-year mortgage-backed securities with interest rates greater than 4 percent. The report found that several borrowers have passed on favorable ...

Ocwen Financial experienced its second straight financially difficult year, reporting a net loss of 224 million dollars for the fourth quarter of 2015 and a net loss of 246 million dollars for the full year of 2015 in the servicer’s ...