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Some in the industry have initiated a charge to eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and take over the mortgage industry—and at the forefront of that charge is a group of high-level industry professionals that has moved back and forth ...

In what many viewed as the final piece of the puzzle before a Fed liftoff later this month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported solid job gains of 211 thousand for November in the Employment Summary for November 2015 released ...

American Homes 4 Rent and American Residential Properties, Inc. both announced on Thursday morning plans to merge into a combined company that is expected to own and manage more than 47 thousand residential single-family rental homes. The merger is expected ...

The distressed sales share was reported at 9 point 7 percent as of the end of September 2015, according to data released by CoreLogic on Wednesday. The distressed sales share has been on a steady decline for the last six ...

While delaying foreclosure on a home does have some potential benefits, for the most part it is counterproductive, according to data released this week by Freddie Mac. The Enterprise notes the time it takes to foreclose on a home is ...

The percentage of all-cash sales remained unchanged from September to October but was down by 3 percentage points over the year, and the share of homes purchased by institutional investors dropped right along with it, according to data released on ...

Agency purchase loans became even riskier overall in October, driven by an increasing shift in originations from banks to nonbanks, according to data released by American Enterprise Institute’s International Center on Housing Risk on Friday. The composite National Mortgage Risk ...

U.S. Senators Bob Corker and Mark Warner have introduced a bipartisan amendment to H.R. 2577, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act in an effort to spur substantive and structural housing finance reform. The amendment, known ...

The state of Ohio is taking steps to remedy the vacant and abandoned property crisis, and the rest of the country may follow suit. A bill that would reduce foreclosure timelines and therefore shorten the amount of time that residential ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen on Tuesday wrote a letter to newly-appointed Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi urging Congress to reject a proposed bill that would increase transparency for the Fed. H.R. 3189, ...