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Lawmakers’ efforts to chip away at the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act have come almost exclusively from the GOP side of the aisle—until now. The U.S. House of Representatives this week passed H.R. 4096, a bipartisan bill, by ...

Just when the homeownership rate seemed to be on its way back after falling to a 48-year low in the second quarter of 2015, it took another step backward on Thursday. One particular demographic, however, is experiencing a dramatic increase ...

Inconsistencies in the economy during the first quarter have not dampened Freddie Mac’s forecast for housing for the coming year. Freddie Mac has held fast to its prediction that 2016 will be the best year for housing since before the crisis. Freddie Mac ...

In an attempt to prevent banks and other financial institutions from the excessively risky practices that led to the financial crisis and Great Recession, financial industry regulators are seeking comment on a proposed rule that would implement Section 956 of ...

Speaking at a roundtable-style event in a donut shop in New Haven, Connecticut, over the weekend, Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton addressed the audience about various current hot button topics, one of which was the housing crisis. Clinton said that ...

While the outlook for overall economic growth is darkening, the housing market is expected to keep up its momentum in 2016, according to Freddie Mac’s April 2016 Economic Outlook released on Friday. Freddie Mac downwardly revised its forecast for Q1 GDP growth ...

Dallas, Texas-based Nationstar Mortgage was the only one out of the three largest U.S. non-bank mortgage servicers rated by Moody's to turn a profit during 2015, according to Moody’s Investors Service’s Servicer Dashboard on Thursday. Nationstar’s net income for 2015 was 43 ...

The final 1 billion dollars in funds under the Hardest Hit Fund has been allocated to 13 of the 19 participating HHF states, according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Treasury on Tuesday. The states that received this round of ...

The FHFA’s principal reduction program announced last week is going to affect relatively few borrowers. The program is extended to approximately 33 thousand eligible homeowners when there are approximately three million underwater borrowers nationwide. According to a report released by ...