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Taking a consistent, equitable and borrower-friendly approach could go a long way toward compliance, but mortgage companies and attorneys expect the devil will be in the details.

Listing times, price appreciation and inventory of for-sale homes all made incremental gains in favor of buyers, according to Zillow

CEO Michael DeVito told attendees at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual convention in San Diego that the move is among the types of “cash-flow underwriting” updates the government-sponsored enterprise is considering.

While September's single-family starts were unchanged from the prior month, multifamily activity fell 5%, according to government data.

The company blamed its decision to stop new acquisitions for the rest of the year on the labor shortages roiling the U.S. economy.

After permitting remote appraisals on an interim basis during the pandemic, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will accept them outright starting in early 2022, the acting head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency said.

Changes in the Fed, including the replacement of Jay Powell as chairman, might shift the board back to a dovish economic position.

The multichannel lender plans to expand its footprint in the non-agency market as a result of the majority shareholder investment in the company changing hands.

Latin, Black and Asian buyers are expected to drive future homeownership growth but corporate suites have yet to reflect demographics

The transaction fills in gaps in each company's capabilities for serving their customers, monetizing data for SimpleNexus, and mobile capabilities for LBA Ware.