Compliance & Regulation

Aligning key mortgage servicing indicators and best practices with the Customer Financial Protection Bureau guidelines is a win-win for servicers.

Just like your mortgage payment and real estate taxes, condo charges must be paid.

Six regulatory agencies are working on the qualified residential mortgage rule and they are looking at aligning the QRM risk retention rule with the qualified mortgage rule.

A new advertising campaign is targeting New York’s struggling homeowners who may be unaware of the $60 million available to provide them free counseling and legal assistance.

After two years of premium increases, the forward Federal Housing Administration single-family program is cash flowing again.

Often ignored is what the cost of additional oversight under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau means to the consumer.

A new Fannie Mae report suggests many previously underwater borrowers’ equity is rising back to levels more in line with their mortgages.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to restructure its Office of Multifamily Housing Programs and the Office of Field Policy and Management.

The Washington metropolitan area will see average rents decrease as much as 2%, making it the only market other than Detroit to have a drop among the top 20 U.S. cities.

Pacific Investment Management Co. expects the Fed to start slowing its debt buying by September, before ending the expansion of its balance sheet early next year.