Compliance & Regulation

The Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency in a new report says Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have different strategies for going after strategic defaulters.

Commercial mortgage-backed securities have more risk than last year as landlords need to repay maturing debt and vacancies remain elevated.

Is the 'fiscal cliff' issue causing home buyers to sit on the fence?

U.S. Bancorp, one of the fastest growing mortgage lenders in the nation, fears the ramifications of the "fiscal cliff."

Consumers who pursue debt settlement services may find themselves facing not relief but even steeper financial losses, attorneys are warning.

Everyone should take advantage of the current low interest rates to refinance, but can they qualify? Why some perfectly good borrowers are being turned away.

FA Business Services will be demonstrating QC@Closing at its trade show booth during the Mortgage Bankers Association annual.

The Mortgage Bankers Association says it opposes the so-called zero-zero exemption spelled out in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s pending loan officer compensation rule.

Springleaf Finance Corp., the subprime lender that’s been raising cash to repay maturing debt by packaging older mortgages into bonds, plans to sell $787 million of home-loan securities.

With millions of homes currently foreclosed upon nationwide, there is potentially a second foreclosure crisis looming that could deteriorate the housing industry even more: the tax lien sale.