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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 ...

As foreclosure numbers continue their downward spiral, the data showed that almost half of the nation’s completed foreclosures for the 12-month period ending on April 30, 2016, were locked up in five states, according to CoreLogic. Florida, Michigan, Texas, Ohio, ...

The nation's foreclosure rate and serious delinquency rate in April both fell to post-crisis lows amid home price appreciation and labor market improvements, according to data released by CoreLogic’s April 2016 National Foreclosure Report released Tuesday. The report found that ...

The cost of renting has fallen slightly in the last year among the top 25 largest rental markets, according to a report from Trulia this week. However, affordable listings are on the decline in metros such as Oakland and Orange ...

The Fed will release the results of its two annual supervisory stress test exercises later this month—the Dodd-Frank Act Stress Tests on Thursday, June 23, and the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review on Wednesday, June 29. The CCAR will test ...

With the slowing of loan modification activity in the last couple of years, the number of permanent loan modifications offered by the industry since the third quarter of 2007 is essentially equal to the number of liquidations completed during the ...

Representative Jeb Hensarling, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, on Tuesday morning announced the GOP’s much-anticipated and much-talked about proposed alternative to Dodd-Frank, entitled the Financial CHOICE Act, or Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers, and Entrepreneurs. The Financial CHOICE ...

Second-lien home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) have experienced year-over-year delinquency rate increases in two of the past six months, the first such increases in nearly four years, according to data released by Black Knight Financial Services on Monday. With a few ...

Cash sales have declined overall, but they still account for the majority of sales in the lowest 20 percent of property values, according to Black Knight Financial Services’ April 2016 Mortgage Monitor released Monday. Overall, the cash sales share has ...